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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Ought Dictate Words Honor
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Another Best Know Life
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Reluctant Singer Activity Life
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Dream Married Year Nelson Mandela
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Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Never Able Order Believe
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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Absurd Breath Mention Name
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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Existed Ever Book Join
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

After Because Come Deserved
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Ability Include Peaceful War
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Heritage Fruitful Free Protect
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Know Ought Family Live
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Also Corrupt Corrupts Language
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

Goal Chance Foul Win
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Advance Brought Equality Ever
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Bought Gives Itself Love
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

Certain CertainWay Chance Explore
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Foresight Have May Undoubtedly
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Alone Come Dream Dreams
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Clouds Down Drop Estates
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Follow Fought Gains Leads
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Education Effort Get Struggle
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

About He I Wish Know
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Been Earth Gold Has-Been
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Any Idea May Mind
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Against Battles Fought Strike
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

About Ask Business Dreams
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

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Any Barack Barack Obama Before
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

After Depart Ever Eye
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Capable Individuals Made Original
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Big Pleasures Relish Small
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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Thought Rational Dictatorship American
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I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Extent About Convention Very
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When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Man Fellow Money
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First thoughts are not always the best.
First Thought Best
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Advice Dr Father Go
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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

Amazing Bought Credit Default
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Blessings God History Mankind
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I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

Am Else Guy He
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Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.

About Across Around Come
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Away Colonialism Describe Legacy
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

Awakening Earth Manifestation Product
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Man Thought Console Offspring
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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Anybody Gave Hell Just
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Books Collective Depends Education
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizen.

Citizen Family Father Mother
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Accomplish Being Brought Conviction
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Thought Inspiration Work Hair
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The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Action Always Animal Any
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I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

College Finish Fit Get
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