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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Because Believe Christianity Else
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Cut Deserts Down Educator
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

Different Earth Feeling Nobody
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Another Balance Bit Else
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

Battle Being Biggest Center
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Also Animal Brains Egotistical
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Fact History Intrigued Man
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Creator Equity Governs Humanity
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Away Danger Expedience Liberty
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

About Feeling Feeling Good Glamour
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Conclude Derived Good Happy
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Empire Go Great Ill
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Every Grows Slavery Soil
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Case Concerned Every Every Man
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Frame Hasty How Judgment
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Exists Liberty Proportion Restraint
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Cannot Country Liberty Nor
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Capital Energy Failure Frequently
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Nothing Often Powerful Strange
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There is always room at the top.

Always Room There Top
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Appearance Fully Governed Know
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Anger Argument Cool Keep
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Currency Government Evils Greatest
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Among Disagree Only Quarrel
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Away Every Life Man
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Bad Conviction Done Many
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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Arising Changes Circumstances Often
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Despotism Called May Government
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Ever God Important Individual
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Any His House Invention
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

All Things Answered Ends Great
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Christians Citizens Good Good Citizens
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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Associated Being Condition Creatures
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Accept Barbarism Be Prepared Civilization
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Because Dressed Like Look
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Christ Decay Despair Else
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Consists Worth You Your
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Beings Ethics Evolution Goal
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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Accomplish Hell Here No Rules
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Around Body Brain Carry
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Discontent Failure First Man
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius Inspiration Ninety-Nine Ninety-Nine Percent
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

After Ahead Decided Fully
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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There is no substitute for hard work.
Hard Hard Work Substitute Work
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Accomplishment Always Being Being Busy
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