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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Common Consent Individuals Laws
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Confidence Courteous Few Give
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Accomplish Act Constrain Enemy
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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Conduct Drawn Ground Hereafter
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Army Discipline Esteem Formidable
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Actions Attachment Convince Criterion
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Become Canvas Concrete Different
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

Confidence Confident Even Key
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Connected Duty Happiness Moral
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The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Authorized Congress Constitution Declaring
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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Abandon Constitution Guide Never
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Attack Battle Beaten Both
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Altar Church Church And State Contributions
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Immediate Immediately Move Other
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Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Adjust Conquering Enemies Expanding
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Being Book Concepts Contains
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Ages Develop Developed Middle
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Bore Bored Contemptible Even
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Accept Become Believe Bound
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Character Color Content Day
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Bent Change Continuous Freedom
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Awaiting Burial Concerned Conditions
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Conscientious Dangerous Ignorance More
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

After Book Bookstore Content
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Challenge Comfort Controversy Convenience
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Born Committed Crimes Deplorable
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Believe Defeated Evil Final
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Art Conclusions Drawing Insufficient
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Believe Fully Humans Important
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Catch Cold Fear Lest
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Abstinence Condemns Good Half
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Conviction Man Nothing Serious
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

Astronaut Back Confidence Every
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Able Culture Enough First
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Adolescence Convinced Everyone First
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Always Conclusions Contrary Enough
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Answer Any Asked Because
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

About Constantly More Paranoid
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I don't think Conor's scared of anything. He's game to fight.

Anything Fight Game He
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I've never been knocked unconscious in my entire career.

Been Career Entire Entire Career
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I've had a great run. I've been a world champ. I've been a top contender. I've been a poster boy for the organization, for sponsorships, been able to do a lot.

Able Been Boy Champ
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Actions Conscious Less Lives
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

Attractive Chemistry Cool Cool Guy
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