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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
Nature Single Angle Eye
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Depend Eat God Chicken
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It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the physical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.

Certain Become Overcome Aspect
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Whole Secret Fox Lion
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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No matter how men shake their ‘thing’ after urinating, the last drop is always reserved for the boxers.

Boxers Reserve Always Drop
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.

Base Mind Led Act
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Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Happy Good May Make
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Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

Solution Paradoxes One Better
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I hardly ever get in the box.
Box Ever Get Hardly
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In England, those qualities of playing it simple, being in the right position, reading the game, knowing the right moment to make things happen around you are not appreciated. Making a tackle, a run into the box - the spectacular things are more appreciated.

Appreciated Around Being Box
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Bayern is a big club and a big brand, but on a daily basis, it's a family club. You get to know the physios, the kit man, the chefs. It's also a club that's very close to the supporters. That proximity to the fans makes it special. That was surprising. In Liverpool and Madrid, there's more distance.

Also Basis Big Brand
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Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Choice First Lovers Makes
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Powerful Powerless Gaints Paradox
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Enough Oxygen Stuck Walking
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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

Brave Innovative Thinking Out
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Knowledge is the key to freedom. It turns frustration into fulfillment, sweat into sweet. Nothing approximates the power of Knowledge. It is the key to dominion.

Knowledge Freedom Sweat Key
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When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

Material Own Dilutes Mediocre
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Bed Bodies Bundle Early
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

Box Child Eventually Had
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

About Any Box Came
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I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

Believe Cannot Economy Market
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox

Any Denying Maintain May
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Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

Box Cannot Chalk Defeats
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We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Boxers Knows Longer Never
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

Basically Blogging Improves Life
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Ant Does More Move
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Always Paradoxical Truth Words
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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Box Constraints Drives Frugality
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

Actor Boxes Career Entire
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I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

Didn't Even Know How
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Being Best Drunk Get
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

American Emperor Nod Rather
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People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

Am Box Capable I Am
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Between Connection Differentiate Educators
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Absolute Always Beyond Escapes
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Bears Disgust Vine Grapes
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Bad Effective Execution Know
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

Cardio Classes Kickboxing Mum
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Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

Boxers Fresh Important Like
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I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.

Totally Against Plastic Surgery
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Away Paradox Professor Take
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Average Ego Every Extent
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Another Back Emotional Giving
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Dad always enjoyed sports, and he decided to join a Guadalajara gym to learn how to box. What he didn't realize was that they didn't teach boxing at that particular gym - they taught 'lucha libre.'

Always Box Boxing Dad
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When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

When Hollywood Box-office Results
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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Better Even May Paradoxes
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We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

Atmosphere Before Carbon Carbon Dioxide
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