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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Society exist Benefit Members
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Government is essentially immoral.

Government Immoral
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Commonly see Diminution Freedom
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Misused words Generate Thought
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Man's knowledge Order Confusion
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Preservation Health Physical morality
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Living thing Dead Multiplicity Changes
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Continuous adjustment Internal relations
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Ultimate result Shielding men Effect World
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Objects Little happiness Gained
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Our lives Universally shortened Ignorance
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Divine right Means Uppermost
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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education Object Character
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Cage Wild beast Law Selfish man
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Hero worship Strongest Human freedom
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Science Important thing Modify Advances
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Marriage Ceremony Rings Finger
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Never entered Poetry Surrounded
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Government Grow Oppressive Thrown off
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
People Requisite Success Life
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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Love Never ending Life's wealth
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To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Future Goal Life Live
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Another Cannot Convenient Geometry
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

Keep Little Lives Moments
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Cultural Culture Goes Itself
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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

Daughter Fame Happy Money
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Because Dying Figure Life
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Bring Find Mountains Only
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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

About Always Because Good Knows
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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Close Four Getting Morning
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The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

About Being Celebrity Funny
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

All-Around Around Get He
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What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

Am Deep Deep Down Down
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Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

After Book Could First
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The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Buddha Comfortably Computer Cycle
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Billions Carbon Chemistry Compounds
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Quality is the Buddha.

Buddha Quality
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It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Evil Looking Produces Things
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

First Hands Heat Heart
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We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Individual Lntegrity Need Old-Fashioned
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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Authors Did Everybody Famous
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There's no such thing as morality.

Morality Thing
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People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

Always Anything Each Never
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If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Chase Run Technology Will
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Always Boredom Creativity Great
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Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

Best Defender Fantastic Him
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Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

Field John Men Met
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I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

About Am Because Enjoy
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Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

Brazil Country Cup Even
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I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

Always Been Brother Come
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