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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Atheism Bigots Complete Fanatics
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Always Being Coward Dreams
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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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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

About Entertaining Fascinating Gossip
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Translation is the art of failure.

Art Failure The Translation
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Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Adjust Conquering Enemies Expanding
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Being Book Concepts Contains
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Comic Feeling Humor Opposite
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Because Free Insane Laugh
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Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

Bites Kisses Simultaneously
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

About Among Anticipation Bullets
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Dead Die Everyone Going
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Catholic Countries Ethic Good
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Ages Develop Developed Middle
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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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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Goes Instrument Learning Life
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Appearance Grateful Mirror Only
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Another Egg Hen Making
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Animal Eat Friendly He
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Bore Bored Contemptible Even
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Awards don't really mean much.
Awards Mean Much Really
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Accept Become Believe Bound
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Boat Come Different May
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Doing Life Most Others
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Faith First Staircase Step
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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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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Cuts Heals Sword Man
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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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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Character Critically Education Function
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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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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Affects Directly Ought Reality
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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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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Dream Every Exalted Flesh
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
Because Die Like Lists
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Am Call Features Human
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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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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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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Doing End Ghosts Having
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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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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

After Book Bookstore Content
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Attention Difficult Down Net
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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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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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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Academic Being Certain Colleagues
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