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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Courage Endurance Fatigue First
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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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Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Forever Less Live Miracle
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

Being Being Famous Famous Glamorous
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Achievement Desire Everything Hope
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Been Business Foolish Grandeur
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Am Happy I Am Kind
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Aloof Doing Kind Known
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Always Anyone Deeply Feel
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
After Far Haunt Horror
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

Bunch Chosen Crime Dark
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Black Far Ignorance Infinity
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

Cosmic Escape Fixed Hence
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Crazier Crazy Device Ignorant
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Comparison Disease Fatal First
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Amendment Countries Current First
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Belief Collective Democracy Ignorance
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

Back Best Branch Gives
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Experience Grew Having Ignorant
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Conductor Conductors Eight I Can
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Crossed Free Freedom Had
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Increase Drug Crime Immigrants
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I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

Comedy Funny Good Humor
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Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Body Present Tremendous Stimulation
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Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Appearance Deceitful Deceive
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There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

Vast Carload Facts Sloshing
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Trust not too much to appearances.
Trust Appearances Much
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

Cadillac Deserves Every Everyone
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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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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
Becomes Becoming Beverly BeverlyHills
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I saw a transvestite wearing a T-shirt that said 'Guess'.
Guess Said Saw T-Shirt
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Actor Brando Done Enough
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People can follow God and still be ignorant. The search for knowledge is your responsibility.

Ignorant God Knowledge Search
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Happened Analysis Bad Good
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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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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Drug Alcohol Fundamental Society
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Government Proves Dictatorship Transient
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ability Be Humble Became Countries
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Alive Becomes Body Concepts
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

End Ever First Ignorance
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Conscious Facts Great Ignorant
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Between Different Each Feelings
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Never take anything for granted.

Anything Granted Never NeverTake
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Religions Christian Tolerance Course
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Law Nature Tolerance Consequence
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Best Government Benevolent Tyranny
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Never Prayer God Enemies
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Ignorant Answers Question
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