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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Always Anybody Between Came
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The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Around Bummer Hooked Like
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Bore Life Ourselves Short
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Always Bad Cooking Education
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Become Bore Care Fights
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Looks Man Poet Way
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

About Acute Deal Egotism
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Ability Beyond Despite Good
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Blood Democracy Dies Drained
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Always Business Football Gambling
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

Although Another Beginnings Brooklyn
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Always Company End Feel
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Books Everything Friends I Love
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Art Away Betray Charm
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girl Like Little Played
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law Men Poor Rich
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He who stops being better stops being good.
Being Better Good He
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Been Flock Glad Government
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Choosing Faithfully Men Notice
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Dog Door Perpetually Side
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Being Cannot Gets Good
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Anything Bit Even Feign
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Arm Blood Cinema Cut
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Because Begins Father Growing
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Always Basically Because Good
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Bad Good Husband Man
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Am I Am Man Money
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Considered Good Happy I Think
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Bad Good Heart Memory
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Always Good Good Marriage Happiness
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
About Anything Delusional Life
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My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Ever Known Life Like
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

American Blind Food Leading
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When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Air Clark Daily Fly
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When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.
Bad Neighborhood Poodle Side
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The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

Enough Enough Money Evil Having
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Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Biggest Biggest Influence Books Comic
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

Accumulate Anything Appetite Down
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Die Enough Everything God
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I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

Attention Cook Focusing His
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
Alone Become Billion Careless
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Articles Concerning Flood Grateful
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Anything Becomes Closely Looked
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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

Door Enjoyable Executive Government
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I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

Actually Around Business Clear
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Along Cannot Day Each
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

Entertainer Full Good People
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
Acting Because Came Coach
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I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Appeal Beautiful Cool Embrace
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