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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beauty Soul After Feel
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

Talent Attention Deserve Who
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Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.

Bird Sing Have They
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Treat Person Society Mean
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

True Fight Front Love
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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

Thousands Sage Mind Distract
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Old People Sweetness Mouths
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Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

Victorious Flinched Questioned Faitful
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I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Save People Economy Policy
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“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”

Life High Low Hit
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Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit

Too Low Miss Because
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The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

Christain Completely Irrelevant Nothing
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The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

America Spite Exist Art
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Because Day Early Enough
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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Because Distaste Lives Long
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Because Considered Coordinated Effective
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Against Align Because Change
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Attend Because Business Courts
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Because Dare Difficult Things
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Anything Because Dangerous Evil
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Afflicted Because Company Drawn
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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Beauty Discovery Majesty Nature
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Method Writing Buy Ways
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I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Admire Adore Because Gems
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

Because Black Catholic Color
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Bores Rich Down Office
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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Always America Another Because
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Actually Any Because Church
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You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.
Because Controlling Done I Want You
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Jesus Cross Myself Loved
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I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Anyone AnyoneElse Anything Beautiful
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom Hierarchy Caste System
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

After Because Come Deserved
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Don’t use Lazarus to justify begging. Lazarus went to heaven because he was righteous, not because he was a beggar. The righteous DON'T BEG.

Lazarus Begging Righteous Beggar
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I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

Want Peace War Lack
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

People Dead Affection Faint
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A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.

Soulmate Connection Individual
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I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

Never Killed True Courage
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We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because he holds tightly to us.

Secure Hold tightly Jesus Us
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

Politician Next step Want power
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Age Because Dark Fails
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Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.

Because Both Conquest Contrary
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You are undergoing today’s graduation not because we want to do you a favor, but because you emerged successful among thousands of Nigerians that sat for the same examination.

Undergoing Today's graduation A favor Among thousands
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Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness but because you deserve peace

Forgive others Deserve forgiveness Peace
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Librally Educated Resist Answers
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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

Recognize evil Other people I have Become evil
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I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.

Regrets Lived Life Mistakes
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