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Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love Single Soul Body
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Man Nature Political Animal
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Perfect Friendship Excellence Good
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

More History Express Particular
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Quality Not Act Habit
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“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.”

Duty Wisdom Trade Character
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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Something Infinite Always Outside
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Miseries Capitalism Socialism Virtue
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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Teenager Control Interrupt Parent
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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

History Intend Write Kind
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Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Reflect Season Christmas Rejoice
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aim Art Outward Appearance
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“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Politics Ability Explain Happen
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise Secure Pleasure Avoid
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beauty Soul After Feel
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“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

Plans Spacious Energy Save
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Between Ignorant Living Corpse
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All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me
Alcohol Take Out Say
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“I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

Drunk Morning Sobber Ugly
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“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Success Failure Another Loss
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Energy Mind Essence Life
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Courage Quality Human Right
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Man Himself Accept Negative
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life Virtue Amusement
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“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Greatest Lesson Life Right
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Malice Truth Attack Ignorance
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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Courage Stand Speak Listen
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Perfect Middle Control Class
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Exclusive Sign Knowledge Power
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Proof Know Able Teach
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“Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.”

Everyone Day Longer Others
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Root Bitter Fruit Sweet
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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

Precious Truth Wartime Should
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

Difficult Climbing Leaning Wall
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Worse Make Thing Equal
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Reason Mother Devote Children
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“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

Endure Comfort Ease Time
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Nothing Life Shot Result
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Conscious Perceive Own Existence
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To love someone is to identify with them.
Love Identify Someone Them
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“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

Daring Excel Crime Great
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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