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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Know Ought Family Live
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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Affliction Better Forget God
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.

Shine Attention Call Fire
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Aims Between Clear Enemy
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

Ball Injured Respect Nasty
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Duty First Intelligent Men
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

About Bring Chaos Connected
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I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.

Accept Blows Boxer Hits
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Anything Hear Liberty Means
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Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.

Quality Good Players Top
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Accepting Beliefs Both Contradictory
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Age Folly Hatred Issues
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Defense Largely Our Our Time
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If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.

Family Course Focus Prefer
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Liberal Power Without Worshipper
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

About Atrocities Capacity Committed
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Appearance Designed Give Language
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Concept Fading History Lies
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Adult Age Eight Expose
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Before you are tempted to get depressed, consider those who have a harder life than you and yet are happy.
Depressed Harder Life Happy
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Advantage Any Appears Cannot
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Seek out solitude as often as you can. You wont hear the voice of God clearly until you shut out the voice of men.

Solitude Voice God Shut
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

About Actual Cities Civilization
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Identify your life's purpose if you want to be great. A bird that doesn't realize it was meant to fly will end up as a mediocre runner.

Identify Purpose Great Realize
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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
Dictatorship Does Establish Makes
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Advance Brought Equality Ever
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Find Food Long Long Run
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Those who stayed with you when you were down are friends.Those who come to you when you succeed are admirers. In life you will have many admirers and few friends.

Friends Succeed Admirers Life
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Dirt Eternal Eternal Vigilance Liberty
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Assume Be Happy Happiness Happy
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Correctly Early Event Ever
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Everything for this life na time...Work and wait for your time.

Life Na Work Time
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
Amount Balance Fair Fair Amount
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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Believe Could Ideas Intelligent
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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Always Beings Demand Get
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Dirty Every Funny Joke
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Fighting Hatred Invariably Lies
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Act Destruction Essential Human
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
Comfortable Intelligent Make Masses
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Character Country Duty FromTimeToTime
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If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Campaign Come Cynicism Join
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States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Could Enact End Ending
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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Ambition Ambitious Failure Hope
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The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Acts Against Attacks Carried
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Affirm Character Civility Commitment
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Nobody Can Give Freedom
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

Believe In The Brotherhood
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

If You Don't Have
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Stumbling is not falling.

Stumbling Is Not Falling
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