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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Because Great Growth Human
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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Around Barriers Constraints Erect
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The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Belong Belongs Brave Future
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ability Absence Conflict Handle
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Down Going Grand Like
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Appear Dreams Man Realities
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Reality Times Best Escape
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books Few Friends Like
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Alive Die He Life
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Nations Main Campaign Long
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Men Mind Result Impresses
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Concentrated Energy Essence Real
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Dangerous Dreadful Integrity Knowledge
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Virtuous Person Mean Mind
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Counsel Despair Determination Diligence
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Attempted Ever First Must
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
First Great Requisite Self-Confidence
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Expect Folly Keep Others
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Affords Another Difficulties Forming
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any Attain Commonly Easier
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
About Carelessness Falsehood Intentionally
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being Better Chance Commonly
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Brings Down Family Idea
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Art Best Casts Certain
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Conversation Does Had He
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Long Punish Wish Unwise
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Admiration Charms Distant Made
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Artist Difficult Easiest Journalist
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Between Both Cannot Distance
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Autumn Flowers Fruits He
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Mistake Room Company Feel
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Away Because Forgive Haste
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Food Art Consumed Dish
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Advance Always Eye Know
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Choice Life Accept Action
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Good He Him Inclination
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Advantages Better Carries Countries
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Book Greatest Half Library
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Converse Desire He Man
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I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

Know Only Other Pieces
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Away Caused Just Laughter
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Different Manner Might Much
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Idea Once Only People
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Anything Aspirations Because Between
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Happily He His Married
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

About Any Anything Day
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

Between Burns Difference Longer
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

About Asleep Census Certainly
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Appearance Head Her Improves
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Children Making Necessary Parents
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