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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Happiness Hard Interests Less
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Another Educated English Good
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Bright Classes Night Rise
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

American Bits Books Broadcast
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Ambition Harmony Human Perfect
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
Being Fired Nothing Wrong
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The mind is just another muscle.
Another Just Mind Muscle
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Brothers Clown Columbus Fact
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Absence Evidence Not
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Beings Home Human Planet
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

Dust Enormity Numerous Sand
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Clearly Confused Credulous Dangers
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When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

Disappointment Discouraged Things Try
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Contempt Culture Require Disrespect
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

Afraid Dying Faster Forward
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Awesome Become Choose Discouraged
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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

Disguise Grapes Hidden Human
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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Act Free Imitators Initiative
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Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

Church Fault Help Wealth
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
Earth Frogs Giraffes Like
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The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
Against Female Loves Man
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There are challenges everywhere. You must have tenacity; you must have strength of character not to cheat.

Challenges Tenacity Strength Character
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Alone Circus Die Love
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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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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I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Automobiles Conversations Faces Feet
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Typewriter Without Woman You
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Life Literature Those Writing
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Another Brave Communication Electric
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Action World Moping Droning
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Activities Business Concerned Far
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Blessings Reflect Past Every
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Attached Close Conceal Heart
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Joy Meeting Pain Parting
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Better Heart Human Strings
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Day Others Self Wasted
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Emergency Life Safe Simple
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Brings Children Existence Injustice
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Beliefs Events Lives Mean
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

About Act Beings Determine
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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Goals Inspire Lazy People
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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Doing Know Knowing Not Knowing
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For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

About Artist Automatically Because
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Always Chance Condition Conscience
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Arrangement Benevolent Friendship Greater
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Better Educated Man Newspapers
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Believes Error He Ignorance
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