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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Afterwards Ashamed Hands Necessarily
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Another Assumes Condition Disease
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Between Difference Fuzzy Merely
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never

About Authority Could Done
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Alive Am Anything Country
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There is every reason to be optimistic. Ghanaian are ready and they have a government that is ready.

Ghanaian Optimistic Reason Government
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There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Conscience Frame Man Me
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea

Cats Dogs Get Idea
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Built Contract Did Government
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I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Careers Creative Independent Problematic
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What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Blamed Gets Know Music
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Become Changing Conservative Idea
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Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

Crayons Draw Leave Me
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To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

Admit Below Comeback Dropped
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Become Enlightened Goal Ideal
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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Becomes Beyond Certain Certain Point
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There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.
Always Certain Disagree Dislike
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Blame Ego Fiction Gets
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Contain Impulse Law Love
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Cross Merely Sea Standing
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Envy Flower Need Numerous
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Another Another Time Born Child
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Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

Awkward Being Best Feel
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When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

Aiming Anger Die Fear
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Dance Dew Edges Leaf
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Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.
Expecting Me Return Sacrifice
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Belongs Capacity Create Everything
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If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

Any Back Distribute Emotion
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Because Come Dawn Death
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Creation Heart Lies Love
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Does Education Existence Give
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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Against Blunder Former However
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The first time I performed musically, I threw up.
First Musically Performed Threw
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Environment Even Fantastic Feeling
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Because Civilized General Having
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Became Environments Spite Writer
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People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

Anymore Expect Me Nothing
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

All Confirmed Economics History
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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

Amount Foster Him Home
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If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

Back Came Einstein Go
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Around Before Boy Dog
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Almost Amount Around Enormous
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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous

Because Discover Famous Fifteen
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Ardent Game Go Happens
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children

America Children Class Classes
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down

Around Before Boy Dog
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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Change Just Like Obligation
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Ancestors Even Gentlemen Ladies
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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Because Dull Exciting Jersey
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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Asked Come Done Get
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