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On every side were stretched the bodies of men and animals apparently lifeless.

Every side Stretched Men Animals
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Power Violence Absolutely Absent
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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Education Decent Housing Enough
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Easy Interesting Less Life
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

Always Anybody Bear Being
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Championship Chess Computer Forward
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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

Legends attract Test Times Ideologies attract
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To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent

Sum up Politically speaking Power Violence
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The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

World Turning Imbeciles
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Careless Could Each Fine
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My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

Bit Decision Default Drift
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I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

About Fairy Know Magic
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Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Away How How Much Less Little
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The love that money can’t afford to buy, it comes naturally from God’s blessings.

Love Money Afford God
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Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Agency Because Car Car Keys
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Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Could Coverage Improved Item
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Adolescence Alone Always Had
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Artist Confidence Consolation Doubt
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As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

Sure History Repeating itself Man
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Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people

Concept God New Obsolescence
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Some jokes are less agreeable than others

Some jokes Agreeable
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

Times Take role Perceived Certain way
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Dear entrepreneur, pray for strength, resilience and fortitude to keep on doing what you do. The journey isn’t for the lily-livered! But still, we thrive! Remember the real work is in sleepless nights, days of pure frustration but the rewards are worth it.

Entrepreneur Pray Strength Fortitude
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I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.

About Always Am Been
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Capture Groundwork Heart Lessons
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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Add Brass Current Gold
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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Adds Am Every Every Time
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Accomplished Acquaintance Books Brag
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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Along Articles Brings Dwarf
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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Holes More Occasions Other
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Add Alas Contentment Grandeur
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Companion Lay Lays Many
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Drawing Faster Leaves Less
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Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Did Ears Give Give Me
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Above Before Cannot Cynicism
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Absolute Circumstances Conduct Depends
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Children Flesh Happens Like
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Fun Guitar More Much
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The mighty ones are active, the lazy ones are passive…both mighty and lazy ones are all important. No one is useless in this life.

Mighty ones Lazy Passive All important
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We don’t have to discriminate against people wherever they reside in the country. Once you’re a citizen of this country, you’re qualified, you’re eligible, you’re free under the law to decide to settle in any party of the country and go about your businesses without fear of molestation.

Discriminate Against people Country
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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Am Around Bubbles Fresh
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Been difficult Men Realize Life
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I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.

Appreciate Beatles Could Devotion
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As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

About Am Approach End
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Nothing Worthy Knows
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I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

Blessed Day Every Every Day
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

Believe Complicated Explained I Believe
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I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

About Ahead Am Anyone
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The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Thriftless People Californians Nothing
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