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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Anger Argument Cool Keep
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Good Inspired Make Man
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Does Gives Him Immortality
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Among Disagree Only Quarrel
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Despotism Called May Government
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Accept Barbarism Be Prepared Civilization
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Failed Found Just Ways
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Consists Worth You Your
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Blunders Forward He Notice
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Favor Friends Friendship Kings
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Close Did Failures Gave
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Accomplishment Always Being Being Busy
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Around Because Goes Hard
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Art Masters Mind Old
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Balance Happiness Harmony Intensity
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We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Alone Also Begin Convinced
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Each Family Felt Life
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Airline Create Else Experience
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Any Around Invest Money
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Noticed Often Original Originality
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

True Christianity False Importance
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage Every Form Point
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Capitalists Criminals Cut Enemies
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Afflictions Anxieties Christ Defect
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Desire Either End Image
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Beginning Find Fit Image
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
About Egos Elites Masses
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Simply Become Competence Daily
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I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Body Cannot Conform Even
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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Constantly Darkness Enlightened Even
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Between Big Country Democrats
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Bureaucrats Everything Never Nothing
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Being Gives Love Miracles
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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Because God Others Ourselves
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Hatched Indefinitely Jolly Just
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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Actions Consistent Consistently Control
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Administer Afford Amazing Bureaucracy
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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Action Actually Enough Few
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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Become Contribute Get Gives
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Begin Comfort Despair Either
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Cause Explanation Justification Reason
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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Accurate Act Consistently Our
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Believing Humble People Pious
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Joy Pleasures Sometimes Whether
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Break Fact Laws Miracles
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Atheist Cannot Careful Man
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Another Desire Experience Explanation
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