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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Book Container Create Itself
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Everything Fountain Gladness Heart
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Advertiser Any Mission Skeptical
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Always Among Away Clouds
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Gifts Good Good Nature Heaven
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.

Actor Better Bridges Even
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Adversity Diamond Dust Heaven
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I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.

Days Get More Suits
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Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

Abandon Any Damaging Deliberately
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
Beautiful Expression Finds Right
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Bird Dead Drop Frozen
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That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

Awaits Existence Exploration Possibilities
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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Day Death Die Embodied
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Because Desire Fear Here
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

America Force Freedom Model
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Drive Fun Girl His
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Blossoms Brief Duration Enjoyed
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

Better Brutality Laugh Mix
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Earth Fairest Flower Manure
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Entertainment Joke Listen Lonesome
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Able Failing Own Restrain
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Does End Great Grief
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Essence Fire Love Spiritual
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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Humanity Just Know Life
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Benefits Cause Convey Examine
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Appreciate Elephant Foot Injustice
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Bow Committed Europe Head
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

American Ample Constitution Enduring
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Joy Never Only Sorrow
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When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

Eat Going Good Good Meal
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Absolute Always Beyond Escapes
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I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.

Autistic Brain Brains I Think
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Education Foundation State Youth
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Neglect Pleasing Practice Sound
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You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Attitude Break Call Cat
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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Among Influence Limit Most
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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Artist Danger Door He
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Fiction Modern Modern Technology Myth
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The law has its process, there are agencies that takes care of corruption, we should allow them do their duty without preempting them.

Duty Process Care Allow
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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 nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

Armed Deal Nothing Only
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Atheism Bigots Complete Fanatics
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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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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

After Book Bookstore Content
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Between China Defects Even
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Before Boundaries Child Had
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
Machine Me Options Sophistication
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Case Confident Constantly Defense
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