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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
Love beauty Shadow God
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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Speech Second possession Soul World
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Writing Cheer me Soothe Spirit
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Many things Child Bones Formed
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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

Secret Night Prayer Grows
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All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

All night Trembled Death Life
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My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.

My grief Smile My son
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For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Religiosity Remembrance Soul
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Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

Radiance My enthusiasms Poor courtyard
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I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

Faithful joy Lost Thorn Stolen
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Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car

Anyone Sitting Church Christian
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Read books Privilege Life
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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Young writer Allusive Ethereal Reflective
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

God Write Comedy Bad actors
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Shallow life Person Few scars
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Some luck Wanted Once you
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Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

Intelligence Allows you Get stuck
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Time Elephantine vanity Look far Campfires
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Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.
Quiet place Heart Rainbow Possibility
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When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Wage war Public school Attacking Community together
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Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Beauty Worth thinking Mind Haircut
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I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

Afraid Deceased Gotten engrossed Book
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Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

Marrying Sex Free peanuts
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I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

Taken So many Turns Careless
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The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.
Rich Afford Progressive Poor people
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Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. Life is today and tomorrow, and if you are lucky, may be next week.

Hurry up Work Life Today
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My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don’t have time for everything.

My God Praise People Busy
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Sometimes I think I understand everything—then I regain consciousness.

Sometimes Understand everything Regain
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The living wander away, we don’t hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.

The living Hear Dead
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What would people think?' Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart. 'Oh,' said Grandpa.

People think Jesus said Human mind
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I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.

Family Unconscionable Congress
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

Have Some rules Regulations World
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

Good People Repay
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It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Real friends Aisle Society
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Politics Act One
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
Rich people Make money Lose Sympathy
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Patriots don't let their nation default.

Patriots Nation Default
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Question Story logic Powerful God
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

A man Lives life Meets Licks it
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It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

Become Crusade Demonstrate Violent
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The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

Human race Remarkable creature Potential Hope
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Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Normal television Limit Science fiction
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Away Been Got Gun
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Commands Divine Duties Our
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Because Certain Characters Directly
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Favor Few Got Honest
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As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Branches Currents Ebb Electric
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Combine Following Hope Interests
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Concepts Constitute Corresponding Elements
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Crooked Made Man Nothing
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