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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Been Errors Failures Intent
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

Armed Deal Nothing Only
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Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

Good Idea Just Sex
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Against Also Book Books
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Better Blame Dream Real
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Another Courage Fear Fearful
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Dream Dreams Many Nothing
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Believe Believing Everything God
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Dog Fool Great He
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Alter Cannot God Historians
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Another Egg Hen Making
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Hate Lying Mind
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Character Color Content Day
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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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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Bad Good Greatest History
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If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Die Discovered Fit Live
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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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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 is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Bogged Breadth Devoid Down
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Essays History Influence Lies
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Country Evaluate Everybody Fact
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Arrive Distant Goal Means
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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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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Conscientious Dangerous Ignorance More
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

Am I Am Like Perhaps
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

First Good Happen Help
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Challenge Comfort Controversy Convenience
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Important Keep Law Love
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Churches European Every Exciting
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Cast Everything See Shadow
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

Internet People Television Watch
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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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All truth is not to be told at all times.
Times Truth
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Books Just Oldest Only
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

Aphorism Define Difficult More
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Believe Fully Humans Important
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Bible May Nothing Truth
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Death Life Must Neither
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Eventually Expectation Find Future
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Art Exact Life Science
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Bona Doing Falls Ground
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Best Done Easy Forgive
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Conviction Man Nothing Serious
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Also Animals Appear Appearance
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

Astronaut Back Confidence Every
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Able Culture Enough First
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Else Enough Fools Knave
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