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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Become Canvas Concrete Different
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Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

After Big Corners Days
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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Basis Citizen Defense Down
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Disgrace Find Labor Man
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Fail Make Men Obedience
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

After Again Any Being
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Altar Church Church And State Contributions
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Bible Book Civilization Fast
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Attempt Believe Come Enigma
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Against Also Book Books
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Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Adjust Conquering Enemies Expanding
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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Another Courage Fear Fearful
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Dream Dreams Many Nothing
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Before Die Fear Instead
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Thought makes reality.
Makes Reality Thought
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Because Free Insane Laugh
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Dead Die Everyone Going
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Dog Fool Great He
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Another Egg Hen Making
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Animal Eat Friendly He
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

About Ask Doubt Guide
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Bore Bored Contemptible Even
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Beauty Empire Give Happy
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any Fool How Know
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Accept Become Believe Bound
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Boat Come Different May
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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Cuts Heals Sword Man
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Bent Change Continuous Freedom
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Better Dead Job Life
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If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Die Discovered Fit Live
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Dignity Excellence Humanity Importance
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Dies Justice Man Refuses
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Adolescent Africa Because Books
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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Dream Every Exalted Flesh
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Am Call Features Human
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Demanded Freedom Given Never
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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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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

First Good Happen Help
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Challenge Comfort Controversy Convenience
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Important Keep Law Love
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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

White Death Free Price
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Acceptance Art Done Favor
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America Australia Because Captain
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Centuries Each English French
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Dew Flash Human Life
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Church End Falling Go
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Down Find Full Life
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