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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Between Everything Found Grammar
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Armstrong Because Came Dad
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Necessary Only Perhaps Politics
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Alive Amen Humbly Instead
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

No man Means Says Words
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

One friends Lifetime Hardly possible
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

One means Says Slippery Thought
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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Ages Allow Back Basic
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Can forgive Forget Another way
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I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
Cooking Dishes Else I Think
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Brought Century Complains Disdain
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It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
Afraid Courage Know Ought
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Brought Take Thoughts Today
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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

About Bring Efforts Inevitably
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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Bad Bear Fruit Good
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Being Choice Every He
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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Accomplish Direct Fail Life
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Alter Find He Him
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The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Brought Cannot Endure Errors
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The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Ask Bless Bring Deeds
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I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

About About An Hour Again Aside
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When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.

Accepted Back Brought God
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Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

Bomb Consider Countries Endlessly
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I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

Always Earlier Later Like
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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Ambition Drowned Get Just
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When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

Anything Could Knew Nothing
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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Action Brought City Conscious
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Some of the greatest blessings that God gives us are those that cannot be bought with money.

Money Bought God Blessings
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But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

Actually Controls Decide Each
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There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

Because Cautious Dreams Faith
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Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.

Been Consequences Ever Has Been
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

Actually Church Figure Johnson
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks

Greet deeds Risk
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Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.

Happened In love Wife Fairest woman
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As a young player, I always thought I was doing everything I could. But the longer you play, the more you learn, and the better you're prepared for what this game throws at you

Young player Thought Doing everything
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If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

Better Bright Confess Dream
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

Actor Appreciated Back Bit
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I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

About Acted Acting After
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Actions Best Men Thoughts
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Battles Behind Forehead Fought
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Having Men Ought Power
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Against Best Crafty Dangerous
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Certain Certain Degree Degree Having
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We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

Against Criticizing Devotion Disrespectful
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That's the great thing about parenting. You end up going places you never thought you'd go.

Great thing Parenting End up Never thought
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It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.

Before Brought Expected Experienced
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I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

Dreamt Movie Musical Long time
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One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

Bought Farm First Iowa
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Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

America Both Bought Cannot
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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

Always Because Could Perform
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