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If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

Anything Enough Love Talk
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Achievement Anything Cut Life
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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

When Men Destroy Old
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Good People Any Country
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Broadcasting Every God Hour
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Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Creative Creative Mind Developments Encourage
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

Changes Creator Despite Earth
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When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

Actions Against Anyone Bring
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

About Books Carefully Fine
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Beautiful Before Loveliness More
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Come Excuses Failures Habit
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Any Behind Come Distinct
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Attention Command Common Common Things
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Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

Across Christ Could Fellow
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God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.

Cannot Come Creep Doubts
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We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Almost Among Arts Become
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I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

Allow Anyone Badly Difference
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Learn Mind Something Wisest
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Intelligence Quickness Seeing Things
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Believe Between Dualism Facts
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Actual Artist Consenting Dream
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Changing Happier Hopelessly Interested
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Difficulty Education Experience Get
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Controlled Dreadful Geography Me
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost Balance Every Less
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Sanity is madness put to good use.

Good Madness Put Sanity
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Courage Dignity Grace His
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Decide Fools Greece Men
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Fool Laugh Man Older
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Been Education Forgotten Learned
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Anything Child Give Him
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Always Came Decisions Design
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Books Great Love Reading
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

Change Environment Old Try
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Act Affect Again Consequences
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Always Best Circumstances Failure
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

Drop Else Everything Interesting
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

Act Area Being Directing
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Another Church Get Kind
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Bothered College Faith Freshman
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Basically Been Behave Believe
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Improve Know Prefer Religion
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Along Coming Get Quantity
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Apply Behavior Benefits Changing
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Down Falls Individual Insist
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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