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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 is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Born Committed Crimes Deplorable
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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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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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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

Internet People Television Watch
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Brotherhood Day Dream Former
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Believe Defeated Evil Final
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Acceptance Art Done Favor
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Events Political Today TV
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Age Beginning Enlightenment Modern
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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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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Church End Falling Go
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Argument Irony Neither Sarcasm
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Down Find Full Life
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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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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Defend Intervene Liberty Press
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Art Conclusions Drawing Insufficient
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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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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

First Law Nature Self-Preservation
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Apology Books Case Devil
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Aims Enjoy Learned Life
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Anticipation Except Future Memory
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Become Book Even Homer
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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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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Anxiety Becomes Dwell Future
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Diversity Goal Make Only
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Being Essence Innermost Soul
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion Spirituality Without You
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Catch Cold Fear Lest
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

Being Deserves Each Even
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Accurately Becomes Destructive However
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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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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Begin Built Compassion Love
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Abstinence Condemns Good Half
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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Christian Doubted Equally General
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Common Lord Sense Shared
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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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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
Average Blonde Blue Blue Eyes
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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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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Adolescence Convinced Everyone First
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Bad Cannot Does Forget
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Actor Business Crazy Dead
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