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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Possession Easier Enemy Experience
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Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Army Discipline Hurtful Neglect
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Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Bigot Christianity Church Direct
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I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Direction Little Observe Path
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It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Arriving Being Impossible Reason
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Disgrace Find Labor Man
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Accomplished Always Anything Anywhere
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Individuals Like Nations Punished
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Art Art Of War Enemy Enough
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Adversity Always Better Cherish
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Fail Make Men Obedience
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
Doodle Know Only Other
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Any Chief Chief Executive Executive
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Fight Line Out Propose
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Bible Book Civilization Fast
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

Bear Church Church And State Declare
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Attempt Believe Come Enigma
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Atheism Bigots Complete Fanatics
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Always Being Coward Dreams
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Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

Good Idea Just Sex
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Against Also Book Books
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Better Blame Dream Real
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Translation is the art of failure.

Art Failure The Translation
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Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Adjust Conquering Enemies Expanding
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Being Book Concepts Contains
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Dream Dreams Many Nothing
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Comic Feeling Humor Opposite
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Because Free Insane Laugh
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Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

Bites Kisses Simultaneously
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Believe Believing Everything God
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

About Among Anticipation Bullets
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Dead Die Everyone Going
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Catholic Countries Ethic Good
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Dog Fool Great He
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Goes Instrument Learning Life
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Fear Hearing Me Myself
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Alter Cannot God Historians
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Another Egg Hen Making
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Animal Eat Friendly He
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

About Ask Doubt Guide
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Bore Bored Contemptible Even
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Beauty Empire Give Happy
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The time is always right to do what is right.

Always Right Time
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Accept Become Believe Bound
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Doing Life Most Others
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Bear Burden Decided Great
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Faith First Staircase Step
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Brothers Fools Learn Live
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Accept Disappointment Finite Hope
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