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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Blood Democracy Dies Drained
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Consciousness Few First Great
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Addiction Comfortable Everybody Guilty
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Always Business Football Gambling
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Arthritis Connection Different Discouragement
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Cheat Come Conditions Deeper
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Art Crazy Insane Law
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

Although Another Beginnings Brooklyn
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Best Everything Evil Necessary
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Condemns He Man Ready
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Children Doll Girl Her
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Freedom Guaranteed Only Own
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Consists Fall Getting Just
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Fishes Like Little Make
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Audience Best Best Way Laugh
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies Country Different Every
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Bad How Journey Life
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Alive Bring Disadvantages Enough
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Appreciated Husband Little Pitied
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Alone Anticipation Calamity Future
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Blind Country Curiosity Goes
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

America Just Light Missile
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Diminish Far Liberties Our
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Been Countries Destruction Development
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

Appointments Bipartisan Committee Making
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

Benefits Democrats Failed Fight
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Call Captain Else Fights
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Going He High Knows
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Been Flock Glad Government
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Choosing Faithfully Men Notice
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Dog Door Perpetually Side
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Being Cannot Gets Good
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Find First First Things Go
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Always Any Complete Complete Freedom
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Because Children Delight Discovered
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Because Begins Father Growing
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Bad Good Husband Man
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
After Before Breakfast Ends
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Am I Am Man Money
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Happens How Life Matters
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Always Good Good Marriage Happiness
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Because Dreams Grow Old
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Arrived Because Been Day
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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

About Asked Been Cholera
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I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

All My Heart Day Die Ever
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I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

Always Being Interested Never
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