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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Another Everybody Give List
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Another Better Grow Ideas
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Action Being Being Judged He
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Achievements Air Bad Fresh
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Ourselves Outward Peace Seek
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Been Commonly Great Great Men
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
After Light Rarely Sought
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Established An Fact Interpretation
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Anything Away Cannot Either
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friendship Lack Love Makes
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Because Cause Cease Faithful
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Able Also Enemies Friends
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Cannot Climb Dance Day
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Create Father Good Good Father
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Alongside Art Conquest Imitation
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

About All Day Break Bubble
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Money Put Trust Your
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Best Best Way Enemy Field
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The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

Biggest Oil Planet Problem
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Counsel Easily Fool Foolish
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Comb Dew Gray Hairs
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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Binge Depths Ether Helpless
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Always Beyond Chain Civilization
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Considers Crime Going Happy
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Bore Life Ourselves Short
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Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Another Ignorance Just Paranoia
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Another Each Gets His
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Become Bore Care Fights
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Art Die Order Truth
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Admitting Advertising Business Cannot
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Ability Only Over Persist
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

According Aches Any Because
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Both Find Hands Lucky
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Bore Complicated Else Everything
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Being Cannot Important Important Things
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

About Being Danger Depressing
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Ability Beyond Despite Good
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Before Met People Rude
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Addiction Comfortable Everybody Guilty
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Always Business Football Gambling
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Cheat Come Conditions Deeper
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

Although Another Beginnings Brooklyn
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

America Just Light Missile
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

Appointments Bipartisan Committee Making
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

Benefits Democrats Failed Fight
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Call Captain Else Fights
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Going He High Knows
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Cheering Going Hanged Much
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Choosing Faithfully Men Notice
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Being Cannot Gets Good
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