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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Defeated Finished He Man
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If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

American Character Handout Impoverished
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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Best Harm Lot Poetry
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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Been Companion Dinner Done
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Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Away Correct Enable Get
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In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Acknowledge Age Any Believe
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Every new government inherits problems. Ours was no different. But what Nigerians want are solutions, quick solutions not a recitation of problems inherited.

Quick Inherits New Solutions
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We must change our lawless habits, our attitude to public office and public trust. We must change our unruly behavior in schools, hospitals, market places, motor parks, on the roads, in homes and offices. To bring about change, we must change ourselves by being law-abiding citizens.

Trust Roads Citizen Change
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I pledge myself and the government to the rule of law, in which none shall be so above the law that they are not subject to its dictates, and none shall be so below it that they are not availed of its protection.

Law Rule Pledge Dictates
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Democracy Education Foundation Freedom
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Building Challenge Development Equality
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
Education Giving Itself Love
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Becomes Christmas Difficult Every
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

Ally Along Even First
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

Carefully Drama Entire Expressions
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Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.

Absolute Down Endless Evil
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Accept After Cupboard Get
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If it‘s true that the sky is the limit, how come man went to the moon? There are no limits except the ones we set in our minds.

Limit Moon Minds Sky
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

Becoming Come Victim Without
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Federal policy tells us to fill 50 percent of our plates with fruits and vegetables. At the same time, federal farm subsidies focus on financing the production of corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, sorghum, dairy and livestock.

Corn Dairy Farm Federal
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Many things influence a person's eating habits. Knowledge of what is considered healthy and what is not would be one, but I doubt it would make it to the top of the list.

Considered Doubt Eating Habits
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A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
Always Insect Lonely Own
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Africa Because Creditors Investors
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The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Immoral Disgraceful Dangerous tImmoral Disgraceful
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Ashamed Ask Attribute Been
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Any Author Bestowed Bible
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself

Conquers Demolish Commits Great error.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Anything Else Everything Everything Else
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Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.

America Barren Been Bitter
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The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

Also Begin Damage Few
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Benefits Conferred Gradually Taste better.
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Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Again Best Brightest Built
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The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Beauty Call Dell Devout
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Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

Any Area Butterflies Different
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Presupposed Arrange law Evil
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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

About Army Book Church
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Average Course Due Heart
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You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

You Know Songs Often
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I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

I've Had Lot Of
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The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

Sun London Ran Front
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I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.
Use To Be Able
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Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

Gay Icons Have Some
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Nerve Imagine Force Planets
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Vice Reward Marketed Consumer
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Decency Exhausting Maintain Opposite
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

About Creative Engineering Find
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Hills Itself Jails Justice
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Attain All Desire Spirits
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