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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Abhorrent Advocate Challenge Conviction
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Become Control Destiny Fail
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Many Memories Past Think
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Argument Considered Got Long
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I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Advertising Executive Only Saw
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Avoiding Boredom Controlled Creative
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Artificial Artist Comment Condition
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Consider Honorable Intended Said
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

About Affront Anything Cannot
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility

Capitalism Expansion Ideology Indefinite
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Accelerate Beauty Become Change
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

AIDS Consequences Having People
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Constructs Painter Photographer
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When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

About Feelings First Just
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Enjoy Religion Share Rapture
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I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Dishonesty People Honest Statistically
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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Won Undertake Thing Persistence
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Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.

Will Quietly Peacefully Joyously
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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

Grateful Life Habit Gratitude
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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say

Man Individuality Courage Conviction
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Failure Lost Courage Character
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Consists Decency Doing Giving
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Aspiring Even Highest Honorable
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Accomplishment Achieved Act Again
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Facts His Inconvenient Mean
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The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Another Complementary Conviction Ethic
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Chance Context Even Impose
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Administration Bureaucratic Continuity Costs
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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Again Attained Certainly Experience
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Application Arise Cause Determined
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Appeared Communist Conception Crude
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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

Analysis Assumption Being Conduct
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Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Beings Culture Finite Human
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Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

Artistic Bears Concrete Description
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

Age Analysis Consider Cultural
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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Agents Concern Criminal Criminal Justice
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Confines Exists Hall Integrity
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The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Beckham Confess Girl Her
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Between Coin Continuum Creativity
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Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

About Connected Expansive Feel
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It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.
Considered Theft Our Part
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.

Greatest Security World Grace
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Beginning Confession Evil First
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Attained Contradictory Experience Find
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Chastity Give
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Concepts Experiences Go Here
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Stimulus Comes Consciousness Knowing
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

About Begin Being Construct
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Help Lord Me Pure
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