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If you insist on locking people down you must provide food for them. You cannot just lock them down and expect them to starve to death.
Locking People Provide Food
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
Two Spreading Light Candle
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I can't love you unless I give you up.

Love Give You Up
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It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness

Mortifying Believe Unpopular
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Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

Fault Wise.person Encourages
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Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

Peace Action Application
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else

Never Lose Belongs You
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

Cannot Discuss Others Product
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Acceptance Cannot Definition Faith
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I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Cannot Comet Cooper Elements
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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Bear Head Heart How
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Been Best Far Has-Been
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change ChangeTheWorld Citizens Committed
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Cannot Forgiven Only Sins
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Am Bring Cannot Forth
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Burn Cannot Itself Kindle
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Believe Caring Change ChangeTheWorld
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

Always Anything Back Been
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Lose Nothing Poor Rich
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Am Comfortable Fish Holding
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

Earth Feel Hardly Humanity
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Always Beauty Extravagant God
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Always Canvas Did Every
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Beauty Body Books Bringing
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
Allowed Democracy Money Only
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If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Benefit Entire Everyone Family
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Been Civilisation Cosmos Destroyed
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Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Anyone Aware Being Breath
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Adventuring Ordinary Person Qualities
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Best How Love Offer
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My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!

Burns Ends Night Friends
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When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Cannot Chance Consumption Mindful
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Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Breath Every Every Step Filled
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We can only learn to love by loving.
Learn Love Loving Only
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Change Falling Falling In Love Go
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Person Publishes Book Appears
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The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through.

Heart Push Soul Sky
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Anything Being Holy Made
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To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Young Poet Bird Wing
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When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world!

Small World Words Rope
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Conceited Digest Eating Empty
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Advantage Appear Create Demons
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

About Achieving Bad Caused
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Any Around Became Cannot
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Calling Calling Card Card Either
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

Big Box Dive Each
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Because Better Book Gets
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Disciple Teacher You
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