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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Conclusions Draw Experience Lead
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Almost Always Another Friends
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Build Emotional Emotional Life Life
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Been Education Forgotten Learned
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Machines Men Problem Real
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Always Came Decisions Design
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Always Best Circumstances Failure
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

Act Area Being Directing
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Another Church Get Kind
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Basically Been Behave Believe
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Apply Behavior Benefits Changing
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Abandoned Continue Deteriorate Environment
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

Action Categories Combat Elements
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Decide Helplessness Hope Hopelessness
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Counting Dead Drain Fruitful
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Different Eminent Great Man
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Body Gets Law Medicine
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Both Die Idea Men
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Between Closest Friends Husband
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Admit Another Class Country
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Alone Being Born Development
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Conflict Discrimination Full Fundamental
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Conviction Discontent Enough Importance
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Act Cannot Ceases Essence
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Constitution Denies Different Embodied
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Always Been Come Compel
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Based Ethics Good Held
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

Abolish Abolition Aim Alone
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.

Change Channels Full Ideal
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

America Belief Believe Between
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I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Become Intended Never Person
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Cannot Destiny Down Find
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

Democratic History Looked Many
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

American Cannot Country Discarded
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

Address Become Belief Common
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Common Each Formed Good
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

American Citizen Each Going
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
Define Imperative Right
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Accept Beings Clear Different
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Everybody Gifts Goal Good
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

Avoid Everyone How Learn
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

About Act Avoid Because
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Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.

Also Causes Create Determine
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The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.

Able Authentic Aware Become
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Ability Become Control Counterproductive
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

American Attack Cannot Chinese
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