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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Arrogance Between Change Choose
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Architect Bar Board Drafting
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Angeles Everything Land Loose
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

America Call Democracy Else
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Blessed Books Mind Chloroform
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Afterwards Age Before Drinks
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Architect Beauty Carefully Comfort
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Any Big Big City City
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Was Left Small Maine
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Becomes Different Everything Little
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Always Bad Believe Transform
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Associated Become Beloved Childhood
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Childhood Discoveries Eternal Glow
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Book Curious Good Good Book
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Fool Tell Truth Want
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Blood Day Decisions Great
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Chosen Course Forward Go
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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Acts Done Man Said
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Choice Ecstasy Even Feet
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Anyone Battlefield Before Dying
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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Being Food Long Mouth
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There is a greater prison than Kuje; it is the conscience of men. A President who was sponsored with stolen money by a thief, is in a greater prison with the thief. And it shall manifest soon

Greater Prison Kuje Conscience
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Boring Footsteps Hollow Made
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It's often said that look at the message and not the messenger, but there are times when you can only decipher the message by looking at the messenger.

Message Often Looking Times
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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Crush Great Imposing Rather
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Become Cool Die Fire
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Cost Dear Ever His
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Friendly Home Like Looks
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Book Concept Could History
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Express Always Become Different
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Between Bliss Dividing Eternity
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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
Always God Good Love
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Bad Bad Luck Bird Consider
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Been Begins Certain Certain Point
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Empty Empty Stomach Failing Full
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Conservative Forward Good How
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Always Cast Chance Expect
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Brings Deed Good Good Deed
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Any Attribute Excuse Gave
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Be Careful Better Careful Day
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

All The World Before Belief Choose
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

After Cold Disease Faint
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Among Elements Good Health
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

About Any Box Came
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Always Children Express Invariably
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Always Because Before Die
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Chamber Common First-Rate Furniture
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Fits Handle Lie Many
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Ashamed Deeds Frequently Good
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Being Better Constantly Desiring
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