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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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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Gentle Gradual Hell Milestones
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carry Imagination Never Nowhere
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Amazed Among Capability College
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Could Country Cure Diseases
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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 am often the brunt of my own humor.

Brunt Humor Often Own
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Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Been Business Career Conventional
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Competition Crazy Dreams Easier
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Achieved Failure Inevitable Know
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Active Doing Genius Least
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If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

Build Company Enterprise Fails
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Certain Emotion Intent Myself
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Change Constant Happiness Must
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I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

Campaigns Designers Discuss Future
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People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.

True Being Constrained Corner
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Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.

Because Fortunately Get Hit
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

About Affairs Beginning Careful
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Back Flow Heart Lost
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Bad Bruised Certain Change
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I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about people that do stand-up.

About Comedians Cross I Think
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Attains Escapes Glad Hopes
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Bad Bad Times Changes Fortune
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I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Actions Actions Speak Defends Kind
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The biggest issue is muscle pliability. That's what I think the biggest secret to me is. What is muscle pliability? Muscle pliability is keeping your muscles long and soft.

Biggest I Think Issue Keeping
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Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.
Gift Granted Life Life Is A
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Anna Asked Babies Bad
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We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.

Back Belief Beliefs Children
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Frightened Hurt Imagination More
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Beginning Call End Make
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

God Heaven Quite Sinners
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Biased Despised Favor God
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My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.

Arm Child Fall Her
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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Ability Collaborate Ideas Customers
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Fairness Greed Innovation Microsoft
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Apple Competitors Fantastic Free
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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Government Money Risks Private
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Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Ahead Bold Often Real
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The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.
Forgive Mistakes More Often
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Been Course Disaster History
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Certainly Earn Even Given
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Before Die Fear Instead
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

About Ask Doubt Guide
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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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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European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.

About Authors Books Casting
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Colored Day More Night
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Accessible Around Cities Clusters
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Car Centre Display Excellence
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