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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Answer Asked Attended Compliment
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Painting Silence Thought Music
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Heart Listening Necessary Never
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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Every Friendship Hearts Themselves
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Give Them They Want
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Ought Say Misbehave We
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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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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Art Breathing Capacity Every
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Actions Bring Distilled Feelings
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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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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Benefit Blessings Consider Derive
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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Dared Greatly Nobly Thought
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We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

About Access Behavior Being
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To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent.

Against Changed Come Difference
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

After Because Hidden Like
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Every Knocks Other Out
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Blood Grow Language Out
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Hundred Hundred Times Often Original
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Caught Event Ever Every
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
After Light Rarely Sought
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Conceived Great Thoughts Truly
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

About Been Drunk Library
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Brought Continue Did Ever
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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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I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

Ability Australians Day Education
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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 have to devote my time and thoughts to training and playing.

Devote My Time Playing Thoughts
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Advances Country Disgrace Fame
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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Battle Before Beforehand Calculations
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Person Who Tries Live
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Begin Demonstrations Discussion Experiments
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When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

Actions Against Anyone Bring
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Balance Belief Between Everything
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

Being Concentrate Disagree Forget
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

About Act Choose Except
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I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Afford Again Back Better
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Country Love Lovely Make
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Ever God Important Individual
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

All Things Answered Ends Great
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Accomplishment Always Being Being Busy
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

History Ineffective Largely Most
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Happiness Hard Interests Less
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Deep Nonsense Religion Science
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Back Best Buying Cable
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Environment Equitable Everybody Generous
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Ever Free Government No-One
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Believe Desire He Know
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Certain Circumstances Confronting Does
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