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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Battle Even Folded Great
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Dog Life Living Only
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Ambitious Amuse Children Instruction
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My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

Also America Community Double
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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Bears Beat Cracked Dance
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The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
Army Crowd Mass Vile
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I love American food, but I also love Latin food.

Also American Food I Love
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Absolute Almost Art Axiom
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Sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

Sanctification Dependent Human Attitude
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In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.

High Lean More Reason
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Does Feels Master Never
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Inactivity is death.

Death Inactivity
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When I hear the songs 'Dangerous' or 'End of My World', I go, 'Wow, I didn't even know I could go that low!' And when I played them for my family, they said, 'That doesn't even sound like you.'

Could Dangerous End Even
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Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.

Labor Commanded Keep Sabbath
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Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Better Better Place Choose Each
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Unless one learns how to relish the taste of Sabbath … one will be unable to enjoy the taste of eternity in the world to come.

Learns Taste Sabbath Eternity
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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Corner Every Find God
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We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

Examine Task God Ego
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The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

Creation Doing Doing Good Good
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Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Another Another Way Culture Enjoy
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No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.

Free Man Liberties Discipline
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Anarchist Baffled Dictator Every
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Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Activity Common Common Good Dedication
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Shadow Big Worry Thing
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I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Been Between Catholics Collaboration
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Devil Here His Ignorance
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In a good book the best is between the lines.

Lines Best Good Book
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It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Better Good Much Others
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Dies Friend Something Who
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He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Steals Buys Need Himself
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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Beautiful Behind Discover Example
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
Blood Life Never Style
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When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.

Good Calm Ship Sea
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Am I Am Man Needed
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I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Belly Hair His I Love
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In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Outward Physical Ceremony Spiritual
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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Always Back Date Existed
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Constant Dying Education Everything
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Alone Being Born Handicap
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Always Desperate Doubt Hope
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The longest journey is the journey inward.

Inward Journey Longest
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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Experience Democracy Infinite Turbulence
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I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Bee Call Decided Even
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Art Faith Freedom Neither
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To write well and to speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Live Vanity Speak Well
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Always Believe End I Believe
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A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Almost Beautiful Beautiful Thing Desire
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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Basis Calls Come Conscience
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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Family He His Leave
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The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them.

Capable Become Fill Reason
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