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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Acquainted Club Easier He
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Because Change Deeds Fail
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Destroying Effectively Love Ourselves
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Achieved Alienation Beings Destiny
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Anything Conscious Enslaved Freed
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Attacks Cannot Clearly Exterior
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Away Freedom Measured Number
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Above Contents Examining Mental
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Problems are cured by facing their cause.

Cause Cured Facing Problems
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Chance Clock Day Half
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Bound Freedom Living More
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Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Back Chemistry Color Convinced
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Am Appreciated Because Books
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

About Away Being Ends
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Accept After Cupboard Get
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Change Changing Death Life
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I'm never on Twitter. I'm never on Instagram. And that's not by choice: it's just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain't really been my focus.

Been Choice Focus Here
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I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

Own Jaguar That's Guitar
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I really believed that Mike Huckabee had a vision for our country, and the more I was around him the more I was impressed by this man.

Around Believed Country Had
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Looking back on the production of 'Never mind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

Looking Back Production Never
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Always Awake First Flowers
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I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

Bible Buddhism Considered Dalai
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Alone Cases Determine Human
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Error Interest Liable Many
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Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances
Work Art Trick Artist
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Amount Caused Death Long
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You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.

Always Character Closely Family
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Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

Lessons Anger Burns Mould
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When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Candle Edison Electric Electric Light
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Admired Ambition American Average Boyfriend
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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Around Better Bloody Find
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The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers.

Developers Dollars Millions Millions Of Dollars
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

Baby Before Had Hand
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Any Author Bestowed Bible
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The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Climate Forests Importance Our
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Anything Else Everything Everything Else
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One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

Been Cathedrals Churches Dam
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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

Acquired Approach Away Compelled
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Hatred Gained Good Work
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Bark Birds Brush Centuries
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

All The Facts Anything Astonished Call
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The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

Birds Board Cherry Cost
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Ruler Faith Interest
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Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Coming Conductor Contact Divinity
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Alone Baggage Chatter Dust
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Ability Accomplished Measure Should
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Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

Funnily Enough When Was
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Rome Create Empire Meeting
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