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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Accepting Beliefs Both Contradictory
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Best Best Way Give Keep
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Abandon Avoided Better Dangers
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Better Deceive Deceived Friends
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Temper Angry Lose
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Achieve Beliefs Feelings Harmony
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

Nas
Anything Biggest Could Promised
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I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

Hate Life More Reason
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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Physical Mental Resources Focused
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Books Right Brain Dead
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It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Easy Hell Gate Death
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Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Does Economics Greatly Respect
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One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Close Difficulty Shortcoming Recognizes
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Amiable Being Day Destroys
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Safest Course Conscience Secret
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Exact Geometry Inventions Poetry
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There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

About Delicious Fault Finding
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Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority

Jealousy Suspicion Own Inferiority
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Despondency Greatest Ignorance Pride
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Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

Cannot Gospel Jesus Let Us
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Your present situation is someone's prayer point, believe it or not

Present Situation Believe Prayer point
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

Artist Chosen Forte Heard
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You don't need to dim anyone's light to shine brighter

Dim Light Shine Need
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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

Always Be Different Behind Dialogue
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others

Tolerance Lack Commitment Belief
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Being Else Gives Like
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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Poverty Means Fears Above
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fear Fortune Future Present
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Concentrate Easier Hand Many
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

Always Buddy Cameras Career
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Anything Elegant Few Self
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Ageing Altering Aspect Believe
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Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Ah Beware Failings Own
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cannot Disposition Increase Only
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Being Better Child Stops
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Exactly Kill Send Decisions
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Never be anyone's second choice.
Never Second choice Anyone
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Very Well Copy Sees
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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

Times Standing Movie Hit
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The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Aim Ambition Demonstrate Greatness
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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

Film Ready Able Make
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Any Attitude Choose Circumstances
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

Conditions Effectively Even Help
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To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Someone Best Friend Minimum
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It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Fear Dependent Young Child
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Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Appreciated Being Capable Enormous
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There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.

Belongs Exist Faith Faiths
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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Friend Life Separate Beloved
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