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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Time Life Seasons Perfect
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

Passions Organized Hostile Freedom
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Education Inclusive Introspective Populations
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Cities Advantages Hostile Liberal
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

Man Society Lovingly Revenge
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Anger Resentment Animal Blood
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

Whatsoever Currents Flowing Directions
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in man, and finds the readiest response.

Who Speaks Instincts Man
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Author Reader Depths Thoughts
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Contents Bookcase History Ancestral
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Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

People Love She Drowned
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I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Wanted Life Talking Critics
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Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death.

Love Truth Beauty Wisdom
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A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Book Read Haunt Importune
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We Tourists History Irony
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Tension Yes No Can
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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Like Book Slowly Read
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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Something Real People Stage
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The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Divorce World Tragedy Necessarily
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Public institutions represent our commonwealth and those in positions of authority in them do so in trust. Hence it must be treated as such.

Public institutions Represent Our commonwealth In positions
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I am also hopeful that death during childbirth will be a thing of the past, and our children will no longer have to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases or other common ailments.

Hopeful Death During childbirth A thing
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Must teach My daughter Same lesson Lose
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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

You remember You want Your heart Allow
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

My mother Not believe Be anything Be me
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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

Think Too much You believe More choices
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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

Distorted form Inverse logic Hopes Come true
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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

Already believe Suddenly stop Loyal friend
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They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

Happiness lies A cave Country In love
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Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Your tears Wash away Your sorrows Feed someone
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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Are living A word Everything Society
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If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

Don't have The possibility Listening Music
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.

Always been Science Help man I play
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In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

In singing Cannot cheat Give emotions Listening
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In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

Set myself The objective Doing What i feel
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I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

I live My children One rule Go away
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I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.

Think anyone Do anything Help God
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It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favor of life.

Not christian Go against Someone Favor
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People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

People wonder Relationship Lack of Sight
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I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

I have Face life Found passion Must rediscover
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I want to have time for myself, my family and my friends. It's important because in order to sing well, you must have inspiration, and inspiration comes from life, from living.

Have time For myself My family Friends
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I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.

I consider The voice A gift The heavens
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You can be great only if it is your destiny.

You can Be great Your destiny
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All that counts in life is intention.

That counts In life Intention
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Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

Losing My sight Had nothing My focus
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A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

A career A house Made of Many bricks
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The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind

The nature Music Mysterious Generate
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A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close

A win Doesn't feel Good A loss
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There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.

Many ways Getting strong Sometimes talking Best way
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Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.

Hate Brings me My knees Love
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