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There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

Doors People Personality
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Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.

Running Believe Thinking
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I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

Even Went So Far
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I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

Art Eye Thinking
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I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

Admit To Drinking It
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

Even Father Me Music
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

About All Day Away Breeze
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Beautiful Beauty Caused God
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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Accept Apparently Both Cambridge
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Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

Well Jesus Both Jewish
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I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Always Said Money May
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Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.

Admire Eisenhower Hero Most
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I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

Admit To Drinking It
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

Cole Porter Had Reputation Worldwide
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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

Anything As Far As Average Average Person
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Body Hid Hidden Mediums
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I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

Afraid Audience Being Being Afraid
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Beyond Field Ideas Meet
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Widow. The word consumes itself.
Consumes Itself Widow Word
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While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

Cheek Maiden Roses Thought
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Always Drunk Keep Mouth
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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Anger Attitudes Change Deep
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Alcohol Down Flame Go
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Butterfly Did Dust He
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If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Always Blunt Candid Confidentiality
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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

Crook Earned Everything Got
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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Advice Cannot Get Gets
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In Sub Saharan Africa, a disciplined man is seen as wicked. A man with low self esteem is seen as humble. A confident man with adequate self esteem is seen as proud. A friendly girl is considered a flirt or lose.

Disciplined Humble Proud Confident
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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Anything Controversial He Individual
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Absolute Father First Kid
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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Chief Direction Had Influence
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The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

American American People Directly Entitled
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Age Between Candidate Distinction
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Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Able Any Certainly Job
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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Boredom Least Many Presidency
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I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

America Been Before Body
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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

Carpet Film First First Lady
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President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Above Born Both Common
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If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

Alone Am Continually Creative
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Alphabet Die Ever Got
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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Always America Another Because
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Becomes Forget He His
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Beverage Come Considered Family
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Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Another Assigned Branch Doctrine
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Anyone Belongs Carousel Did
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Any war waged on corruption should not be misconstrued as settling old scores or a witch-hunt. I’m running for president to lead Nigeria to prosperity and not adversity.

Lead Scores War Old
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Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Entertaining Grown Kids Most
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Always Bathroom Car Groceries
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I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Confidence Country Expressed God
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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Apparent Blessing Failed Failure
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