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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Given Greatest Make Man
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Breakfast French Ordered Restaurant
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Paint Small Want World
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Many Memories Past Think
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What's another word for Thesaurus?

Another Thesaurus Word
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George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

Announcer Bridge George Hear
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Behind Brake Car Gas
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I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

Car Dizzy Driving Got
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When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Kid Store Toy Train
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I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Autobiography Writing
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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Busted Five Get Got
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I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Anything Buy General Me
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I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Buying Clothes Escalator Girl
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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

People Power Store Trapped
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I invented the cordless extension cord.

Cord Extension Invented
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My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Makes Meant Friend Noises
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I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Advertising Executive Only Saw
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'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Camp Exaggerated Love Particular
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Avoiding Boredom Controlled Creative
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Artificial Artist Comment Condition
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Actively Best Lunatics Mad
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it

America Past Person Photographer
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More law, less justice.
Justice Law Less More
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Consider Honorable Intended Said
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

About Affront Anything Cannot
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Any Disease Important Significance
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Accelerate Beauty Become Change
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Becoming Exhaustion His History
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Alive Although Becoming Healthy
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Governs Guilt Inexorable Innocence
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Form Lying Most Simple
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

AIDS Consequences Having People
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Dream Life Interpret Looking
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Aim Analogy Art Commentary
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books Funny Little Pieces
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Attainment Existence Flux Future
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Anything Catastrophe Changing Heading
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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Communication Different Things Getting
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Believes Count Cynic Determines
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Cases Counterfeit Makes Many
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Achievements Acts Excluded Feats
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Apparent Argument Being Escape
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Bed Born Embarrassing Fact
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us

Amount Directly Disagreeable Feel
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Forgive Loser Petty Rebuke
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The decisive means for politics is violence.

Decisive Means Politics Violence
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Work Paid Pleasure Allowed
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The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.
Important Size Faith Behind
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