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Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

Wish People Realise Gift
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This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Absolutely Airlines Beyond Bizarre
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You know we're going to control the insurance companies.
Companies Control Going Insurance
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The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

Act After Come Continue
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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

Always Cliff Control Hoping
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Contend Enemy Folly Gates
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Continue Develop May Our
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Alone Army Believing Control
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

Bar Break Envelope Ground
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Secret Happiness Contented Cheerful
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

Outlook Estimate Yourself Value
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

Greatest The Love Tiny
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Over Again Boredom Control
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Against Contend Cost Desire
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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Life Matters What Life
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Bit Contradictory Found Human
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

Contain Expressed Family Frail
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Architect Beauty Carefully Comfort
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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Around Changes Contentment Else
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Effective Existence Infinite Means
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There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Allow Assert Contained Except
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Continuing Control Enough Government
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Ability Ambition Appetite Assert
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Anything Better Discontented Never
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Become Come Contrary Courtesy
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Contains Jealousy Love More
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You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Abortion Access Cannot Contraception
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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Aloof Best Curb Gentle
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We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.

Business Confidence Contagious Demonstrate
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I've never let myself give up, because I believe in myself. I want to get stronger than I have ever been, and I will continue to tell myself that I can do it, no matter what the odds.

Because Been Believe Continue
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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Away Being Constant Continue
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Alone Both Cannot Concur
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Be True Consistent Contradict Honestly
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Controversy Fools Know Men
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Authors Blessed Chips Contrived
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Art Controlling Environment Politics
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Admitting Advertising Business Cannot
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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