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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Christians Citizens Good Good Citizens
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Because Dressed Like Look
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Christ Decay Despair Else
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Good Imagination Invent Junk
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Around Because Goes Hard
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Anything Invent Proof Sale
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Christ Dry Eyes Feet
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

America Anything Begin Catalogue
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Biggest Human Little Settle
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The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Around Attempt Balloons Finding
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Gentle Gradual Hell Milestones
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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Classroom Done Learning Least
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Big Infinite Infinitely Left
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Care Effects Good Leaves
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Progress Case Doing Man
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Across Large Letters Miracles
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Big Book Cup Enough
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Begin Comfort Despair Either
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

Adequately Good Grab Know
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Atheist Cannot Careful Man
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Another Educated English Good
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

American Bits Books Broadcast
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Amazed Among Capability College
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Brain Good Joyous Muscle
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

Away Gave Had Half
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Been Blood Financial Good
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Power Prescription Science Technology
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

Better Better Job Could Good
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Diverse Fortune Good Good Fortune
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If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Eat Food Friend Heart
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Awesome Become Choose Discouraged
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We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.

Agriculture Closest Consumers Farm
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Because Changed Driven Energy
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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

Disguise Grapes Hidden Human
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Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

Benefits Consumer Corporations Force
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Best Better Book Consist
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Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

Church Fault Help Wealth
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As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.

California Country Difficult Going
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Back Bar Bunch Dice
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Basically Because Feel Free
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Credit Dressed Spirits Good
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Bad Good Lawyers People
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Backs Best Books Covers
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Coat Dignity Holiness Imagine
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great Melancholy Men Poor
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