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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Defensive Existence Favourite Mind
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Exist on your own terms. Live peaceably.
Exist Own terms Peaceably
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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Children Easy Handicap Lives
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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip

Beliefs Discuss Gossip Indulgence
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Afterwards Ashamed Hands Necessarily
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Another Assumes Condition Disease
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Again May Pass Temptation
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Alive Am Anything Country
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If you no get money hide your face

Money Hide Face Get
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To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

Admit Below Comeback Dropped
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Become Enlightened Goal Ideal
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Another Another Time Born Child
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Dance Dew Edges Leaf
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Does Education Existence Give
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Because Civilized General Having
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams

Dreams Person Rain Right
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Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Afraid Phobias Tell Us
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Ancestors Even Gentlemen Ladies
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We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

Endure Fantasies Live Our
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You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

End Found Get Government
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Course Crazy Mean Wrong
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Because Call Door Drum
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb

Away Earth Love Our Take
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Help Just Money Never
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Act Against Credit Elected
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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Any Being Children College
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Service Rent Being Purpose
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If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities… the expression of love… then life itself loses its meaning.

Personally free Human activities Life
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To sit on the front steps — whether it’s a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color

Sit Front steps Small town Concrete stoop
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It’s not my victory, it’s yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We’ve given them hope.

My victory Yours Win Hope
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Forget all the mistakes you've made - it's time to forgive yourself.
Forget Forgive yourself Mistakes Time
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If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

We wish Rebuild Cities Neighborhoods
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Enough Genuine Hear Learn
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Consent Feel Give Inferior
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Better Community Education Found
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For everybody out there, in any locality, your dreams are very valid

Dreams Very Valid Everybody
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The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Better Challenge Community Evoke
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Backwards Better Child Committed
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

Loving life Abroad Your hands Master
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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Future Hold Trust Children
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Power Violence Absolutely Absent
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Children Poorest Group America
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Courage is indispensable because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

Courage Indispensable Politics Life
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God can change your story at any gadamn time. Don't give up
God Change Story Don’t give up
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

About Always American Declaration
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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

Actions Finish Honor Kennedy
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The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home.

Aware Children Go Home
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Brains Drop Means Our
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Blind Discouraging Expedient Faith
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