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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Remember Days Not bricks Bricks.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

Adult Brilliantly Car Drive
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

Atheists Criminals Death Either
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.

Away Challenged Change Just
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.

Argument Away Because Girlfriend
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Everything Expecting Get Give
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The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another

Mistake Europe Quarrel Drop bomb
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

Ask Dream Go Never
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Anybody Anyone Driving Ever
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Nothing Demoralizing Adequate Income
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From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
Ignition Drive Point Journey
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The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Close Done Enough Existence
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Poetry Prose Logic Mystery
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No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is

Mind Rent God Government
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I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

Away Better Building Doctor
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I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

About Break Breaking Concerned
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When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

All Day Always Day Got
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

Another Audience Audience Members Become
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Acts Cannot Character Easier
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Me Nothing Prize Prizes
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I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.
Afraid Am Feet I Am
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

Bad Bad Habit Beats Because
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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

About Abstract Boy Certainly
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Before Darkness Eyes Looked
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Ashamed Ask Attribute Been
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

Another Cannot Current Discourse
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Any Assurance Built Entertaining
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Always Any Because Common
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Another Error He Him
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Constant Flux Long Nothing
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Cannot Cared Disease Drought
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I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Been Better Cattle Change
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself

Conquers Demolish Commits Great error.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Titles Honor Men
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Destroyed Treated Revenge Slight injury
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Willing Everything Share Glory
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Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.

America Barren Been Bitter
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

Any Away Bark Cannot
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

All The Facts Anything Astonished Call
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Men Rise Ambition Attack
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No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Another Approaching Columns Enchantment
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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Interested Preserving Status quo Overthrow
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Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.

Creation Earthquakes Etc Every
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Attribute Fortune Achieved
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Allowing Another Beautiful Building
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

Baptist Beauty Care Eager
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Injury Severe Vengeance Feared
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We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

Afraid Enough Nation People
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Cannot Interfere You Do
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