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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Begin Constantly Frenzy Our
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Consumption Goals Heights Pleasure
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Conversation Different I Think May
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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Advantage Bargain Discontented Excellent
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Add Alas Contentment Grandeur
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Admires After Centuries Conservative
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Capacity Confront Courage Imagined
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Back Character Conditions Defined
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Ascent Blind Consciousness Forces
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Absolute Circumstances Conduct Depends
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Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

Adventures Events Laws Moral
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The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

Approval Cannot Class Endure
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Consider Feel I Feel I Think
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Catastrophe Clinical Conversations Days
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Beyond Condition Constitution Covenant
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Aim high and stay focused on your goals. We are not a wealthy country but we’ve built a national airline, a national broadband fiber optic infrastructure with 4GLTE connectivity.

Aim high Focused Goals Wealthy
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Always Considered Explore Minor
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Negative consideration of every politician is not a better approach…

Negative consideration Politician
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The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Inability Power Voices Change
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I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Although Am Confidence Enough
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Been difficult Men Realize Life
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One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen.

Citizen Consider Feel Know
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The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Abstract Activity Birth Course
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

The family Important Human beings
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Birth control Effect Social life
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The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Contemplating Done Lose More
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Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

Always Been Confined Find
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I do not consider myself a literal genius.

Consider Genius Literal Myself
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

Cannot Conscience Cut Fashion
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We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

About America Considered Dwell
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But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

Cage Human Beast Master
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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Act Best Confidence How
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I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

About Ahead Convinced Doctor
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

Agreements Continue Good Keep
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No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

Any Close Compels Conclusion
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When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

Objective Personal Records Secondary
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I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.

About Argentina Barcelona Being
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We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.

Against Arsenal Concentration Dangerous
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I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

Always Am Behalf Contributions
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Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

Africa Basic Brings Children
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A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.

Always Connects Cross Daughter
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Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

Consequently Development Future Future Generations
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I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

Contribute Grow I Can Interests
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Achieve After Aim Enjoy
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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

Average husband Enjoys Home
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

First victory Achieved Fast time
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

Athletes Confident Thinking
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I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

Handsome Man Most Obviously
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Construct Depression Future Inability
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