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Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Fighting Head Change Resist learning
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The time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right

Time Your friends Wrong Need you
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.

Man Condemn His enemy Wiser
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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

Really Know Person Shoes
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As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

Sure History Repeating itself Man
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The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
The books Read Thinks Makes
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Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.

Remember Always easy Look back Yesterday
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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Bringing Democracy First First Time
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People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.

People Like Somebody knowing Aggravates them
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I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.

Never loved Reading Feared Lose it
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One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

One thing Certain circumstances Do anything
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Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.

You study Folks's business Care
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In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
Went For walk Definite purpose Mind
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I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Conclusion People Peculiar Withdrew
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I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

Know Going Worry Have
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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Am Darwinian Exist Explaining
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How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

Because Believe Comforting Finds
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We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Allowed Been Brought Criticise
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Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'

God More Saying Spring
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in

All Day Day Having Nothing
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Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people

Concept God New Obsolescence
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I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

Anglican Certain Church Country
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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Longest way Close Gloomiest night
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Bitterest tears Over graves Words Unsaid
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Tight place Goes against Cannot hold Give up
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..the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Heart No tears Only blood Silence
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Common sense Seeing things Doing Ought to
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

Impossible Person No good Harm
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Matter Taking Weak Strong
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Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
Treat Dogs Works Actions
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Been said Beautiful Young girls Wake up
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Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Confusing First First Thing Girl
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So inconsistent Human nature Undertake
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Really great Truly noble Everyday life
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What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in.

Your hurry Now Time Ever
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

So subtle Atmosphere Opinion Words
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In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

Alternative Choices Crisis Fight
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I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

Arm Around Call Gentle
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Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Humor Like Starts Then
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Freshness Solemnity Insensate man
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

One Sort Lives Throwing stones
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

Manner Diamond Truth See it
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Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.

Insecure Joke Line More
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And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents.

Among us Generous spirit Estimate honour Dollar
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise

Resolve Grace Silence Fault findings
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Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us... not the person that we are, But the angel we may be

An age God sends Friend Loves us
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

About Absolutely American Being
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It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

Oppressed Enslaved Wished Lighter
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Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

Glorious Nation Man Freedom
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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

Better Book Cambridge Chosen
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