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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Driven Forces Fragments World
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The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Profoundly Atomic Universe Raindrop
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Stuff Historically Concentrated Universe
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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.

Extreme Temperature Stars Survive
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Positivist Mysterious View Object
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

Awakening Earth Manifestation Product
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated
Zoologically Isolated Cradle
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Universe Matter World Spirit
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
Imponderable Greater Handle
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One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Close Difficulty Shortcoming Recognizes
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Man Entirely Mankind Unrelated
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Man Thought Console Offspring
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Hindu Religion Impression Plunges
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments.

Morality Empirical Defense Society
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The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Religion Pagan Enjoy Confine
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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
God Fidelity Situate Hands
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
Love Adventure Survive Universe
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What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Cry Life Passion God
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Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Love Direct Marked Element
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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Discover Deep Nature Caveman
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
Happy Matter Personal Taste
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
World Friendship Encirle
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

Death Represent Physical Passage
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'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

Go Going Heart Know
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Back Been Condition Dreadful
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Another Appears Bad Bondage
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

Always Away Carried Children
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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Both Both Sides Caught Ever
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Anyway Flattering Get Glorified
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Accomplish Amazing Care Credit
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You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

American Being Belief Break
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Came First Found Great
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Around Better Change Change Things
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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Anybody Gave Hell Just
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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Another Arsenal Atom Atom Bomb
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Confuse Convince Them You
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I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

Avoid Places Politics Ropes
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I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

First Found Interesting Law
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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

A Good Thing Because Disappointing Disapproval
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I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

High High School I Love Lot
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You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

About All The Facts Cannot Facts
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The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

After Know Learn Learning
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And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

Actor All Time As Far As Far
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When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

All Americans American American Close
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

College Either Government History
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If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.

Again How How Much Known
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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Any Had Here Humor
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I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

Association Bar Council Even
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In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Any Capacity Eight Enough
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I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Came Ever First Got
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