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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Never entered Poetry Surrounded
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Cultural Culture Goes Itself
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The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Buddha Comfortably Computer Cycle
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God knows the end of every matter from its beginning. Nothing that you're going through, therefore, comes as a surprise to Him. He has already ensured that though weapons may be formed and forged against you- you remain on the winning side.

Remain Winning Already Side
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Language Limits Means World
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Bring Discovery Doing Enables
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Care Does How Itself
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Anything Correct Deeper Does
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

After Cannot Certain Itself
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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Art Deserves Divine Force
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Admired Appears Art Artist
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

Any Anyway Because Great
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The race most people have been tricked to run will always be void of fulfillment. We are part of nature and nothing in nature lives for itself. Rivers don’t drink their own water, Trees don’t eat their own fruit & the sun doesn’t shine for itself. Living for each other is a rule.

The race Void Tricked Rivers
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

After Could Couple Folk
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

About Acquainted After Aware
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Business Continue Fail Good
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Turn to Lord and cast your cares and burdens unto Him. Let go of your sinful habits, for He is ever ready to forgive and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. He is the God of a second chance.

Lord Cares Burden Unto him
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Banquet Consequences Down Everybody
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Ancestors Each His Own
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I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

Album Anybody Big Bunch
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You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

Am Hear Hits IAm
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics Professions Systematic organization
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power Poison Tragic
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Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Create Deficit DeficitSpending Deficits
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Because Changes Destroying Etc
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Come Life Own Painting
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I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

Absolutely Absolutely Not Am Difficult
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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Art Discussion Drama Intellectual
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Banker Between Canada Country
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In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

Become Clear Everyone Greater
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As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Back Building Country Elections
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art Makes life Makes importance Substitute
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
Too ambitious Most important Care
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Country Demands Perfection Foreign policy
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In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Appearance Power Important Reality
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Complexity Inhibits flexibility Crucial
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned.

Statesman Arguments Convincing End
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Love Endure indifference Lamp
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Achievement Acorn Angel Bird
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Agree Bad Based Because
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The Academy is paranoid about its image.

About Academy Image Paranoid
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

No emotion Wave Long retain Individual form
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Ancient Beautiful Evolved Gone
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Nation Young men Funeral bell
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Ever Least Nothing Romances
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There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Approaching Baby Boom Discovered
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Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

American Bank Banker Became
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Against Bourgeois Capital Class
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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Becomes Democracy Destinies Determination
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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Action Brought City Conscious
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