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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Asking Democracy Only Ought
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Automatically Believes Deserves Enough
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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Apart Beauty Children Exactly
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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Burying Point Marker Site
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Caught Commencement Easy How
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Believes Count Cynic Determines
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Cases Counterfeit Makes Many
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Achievements Acts Excluded Feats
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Arrogant Discovered His Idea
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Apparent Argument Being Escape
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When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

About Feelings First Just
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Bed Born Embarrassing Fact
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Cannot Curiosity Drawn Indifference
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Age Bother Calling Hear
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us

Amount Directly Disagreeable Feel
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Forgive Loser Petty Rebuke
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Fault Generous Only People
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Big dreams turn into big things.

Big Dreams Turn Into
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The decisive means for politics is violence.

Decisive Means Politics Violence
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Work Paid Pleasure Allowed
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The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.
Important Size Faith Behind
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

Ever Men's Once Door
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Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

Remember Give Multiply Nothing
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
Read Doctor Presciption Bill
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Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt.

Instant Begins Empties Faith
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Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

Already God Faith Something
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Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.
Something Good Happen Today
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Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

Best Music Love Wisdom
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It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

Harder Uglier Find Seems
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics Entertainment Industry Brach
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Enjoy Religion Share Rapture
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You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.

God Mess End Ugly
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Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Stupidity Certain Ignorance Charm
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Music Boring Production Dates
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Success Measured Accomplish Opposition
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I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.

Enjoy Irritated Being People
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Medicine Hope Incentive Great
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It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

Mattered People Wrong Right
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It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.

Remember Regret Something Better
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Obstacle Look Large Challenge
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As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

Child Mean Children Mind
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Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
Censoring Say People Personal
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What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Keep People Unwilling Price
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Coutry Beer Football Weapons
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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Power Discover Inside Dream
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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Favorite Tenets People Agree
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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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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Win Battle Mind World
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My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Advice Mentally Healthy Keep
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Laid Education Library College
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