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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Art Art Of War Enemy Enough
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Adversity Always Better Cherish
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
Doodle Know Only Other
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Any Chief Chief Executive Executive
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Could Drawing Found In My Opinion
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Fight Line Out Propose
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Always Being Coward Dreams
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

About Entertaining Fascinating Gossip
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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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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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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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Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

Bites Kisses Simultaneously
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

About Among Anticipation Bullets
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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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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Catholic Countries Ethic Good
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Goes Instrument Learning Life
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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 must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Accept Disappointment Finite Hope
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

End Enemies Friends Our
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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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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Character Critically Education Function
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Important Life Longevity Quality
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Affects Directly Ought Reality
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Awaiting Burial Concerned Conditions
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There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Being Chill Time Glittering
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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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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Creative Dire Extremists Kind
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Angry Blood Compose Wish
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Doing End Ghosts Having
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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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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Attention Difficult Down Net
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Born Committed Crimes Deplorable
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

Internet People Television Watch
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Brotherhood Day Dream Former
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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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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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 United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Civil Civil War Needed Properly
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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Argument Irony Neither Sarcasm
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Defend Intervene Liberty Press
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Animals Business Enjoy Except
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

Aphorism Define Difficult More
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