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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Curse Mortal Cruel Short
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If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of
Love Life Waste Time
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Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Because Want Pattern Become
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Prompt Never Away
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But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Justify Alive Invite Wind
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Pray Easy Life Endure
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Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality

State Mind Defeat Reality
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Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory

Finger Away Moon Glory
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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

Life Trade Squeeze Pattern
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Reduce Double Run
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Point Africa World Draw
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America Civilization Profound Change
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When you’re a visitor to a city, you like to hurry up the habits, lay down a pattern, gain predictability in place of roots.

City Habit Pattern Gain
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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

Europe Conserve Rust Fear
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Like Always Prefer Convince
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

First Human Quality Other
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce t

Never Danger Prompt Flinch
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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

Brilliant Achievement Wife Marry
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“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”

English Draw Line Blur
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“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

Terrible World True Lies
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Look Forward Likely Farther
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“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Enemy Good Something Life
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“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”

Duty Safe Right Fear
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“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

Look Down Equal Treat
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“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

Signal Control Policy Yeild
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
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Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Ready Learn Being Taught
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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Man Goal Animal Goal
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Man Nature Political Animal
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Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Acquire Quality Particular Way
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Creats Image Regard Mode
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Perfect Friendship Excellence Good
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Quality Not Act Habit
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“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.”

Duty Wisdom Trade Character
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Miseries Capitalism Socialism Virtue
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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Teenager Control Interrupt Parent
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“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Politics Ability Explain Happen
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Between Ignorant Living Corpse
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Differ Much Dead Living
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“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Success Failure Another Loss
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Energy Mind Essence Life
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Courage Quality Human Right
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life Virtue Amusement
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Ideal Bear Dignity Grace
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“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Greatest Lesson Life Right
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Malice Truth Attack Ignorance
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