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He has the most who is most content with the least.

Content Least Most
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Wisest Priests Contemptible Look
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

America Armed Citizens Control
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Abuse Abuse Of Power Bloated Control
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The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have - by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

Continue Work Always Money
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Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven't been taught how to take control of their financial future.

Challenges Control Face Financial
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The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Control Gives Life Seeks
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There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.

Anywhere Audience Cameras Contestants
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

Always Big Controlling Could
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You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

Absolutely Absolutely Everything Am Because
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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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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Bore Bored Contemptible Even
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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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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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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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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Always Conclusions Contrary Enough
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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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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Blazing Came Chimney Continue
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Better Contained Create Creating
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Blaming Cannot Complaining Discontent
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Awaken Because Coming Contact
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Accessible Around Cities Clusters
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Being Better Comfort Comfort Zone
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Discovery Effect Flight Process
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I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it.

Best Control Everything Guys
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As always, whenever I'm contacted by the White House, I'm just humbled.

Always House Humbled Just
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I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

Always Award Ceremonies Control
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Content He Least Nature
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Art Constant Continue Fall
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Begin Bore Bores Contradict
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Let us take control of our situation instead of being afraid, for Satan, the cause of crisis, has been defeated.
Satan Control Instead Afraid
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Adult Average Between Child
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Ages Books Burned Burning
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
About Accumulate Contribution Life
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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Contributions Ever Extremely Job
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Contemporary Gets History Message
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Contract Hollywood Instead Observation
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Inspiration Nature
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

Biology Curious Evolution Existence
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