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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Prosperity Blessing New Old
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I invented the cordless extension cord.

Cord Extension Invented
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More law, less justice.
Justice Law Less More
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Aim Analogy Art Commentary
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Altogether Bad Interesting Less
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Coutry Beer Football Weapons
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God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

God Qualified Sinner Work
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Baldness Foolish Grief Hair
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Chance Context Even Impose
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Astonishing Become Despite Easily
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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Again Attained Certainly Experience
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Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Beings Culture Finite Human
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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Above Act Avoidance Breaking
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Anywhere Use Walking
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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

Blessed Servant Brother Sick
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It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

Easy Love God Beautiful
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Men Fail Through Lack
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If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

Endure Patiently Gladness Thinking
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In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

Reality Worthy Useless Attempt
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

Help Distress Lighten Own
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Happiness Accident Nature Beautiful
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Blessing Day Walk Whole
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Heart Listening Necessary Never
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

Those Think Church Pays
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Film Never Good Really
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Doctor Told Stop Having
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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Love Children Especially They
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Educate Education Far Finer
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Less is only more where more is no good.
Good Less More Only
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Build Buildings Built Could
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Blessed Books Mind Chloroform
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Age Brief Days Encounters
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Delight How Refuge Take
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Accumulation Association Consumed Distribution
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Body Corrupted How Moves
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Chaos Faith History Meaning
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Brings Deed Good Good Deed
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Bad Bad People Dangerous Devoid
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Friendship However Less Love
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Acquire Blessings Care Friend
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Benefit Blessings Consider Derive
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Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

Crushing Down Effects Experience
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If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Define Less Peers Society
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Authors Blessed Chips Contrived
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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Binge Depths Ether Helpless
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
Dies Freedom Something Unless
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Better Blessed Blunders Even
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I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Cause Effect Ends Journalism
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