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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Alarm Consists Courtship Nor
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

About Both Bound Duty
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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Begin Constantly Frenzy Our
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Consumption Goals Heights Pleasure
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God Tempers Lamb Wind
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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Able Actor Create Hand
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Accomplished Acquaintance Books Brag
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
Does English Man Men
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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Another Button Cause Life
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The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Chest Home Living Should
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Brains Capable Farthest Happiness
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
Competent Friends Friendship Work
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Antagonistic Between Commitment Doubt
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Burning Evidence Just Life
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Discussion Great Had Made
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Children Flesh Happens Like
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The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

Approval Cannot Class Endure
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We cannot shrink the future of Africa in accepting its reality.

Shrink The future Reality
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I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

Actually Boy Coming Ed Sheeran
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I will always push for progressive, more inclusive and more empowered positions for young people across Africa.

Always Push Progressive Inclusive
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Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

Am Being Family Fan
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I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me.

Always Asked Finally Girl
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I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

Along Because Cheating Cry
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On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It's not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.

American Bash Best Bit
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I'm doing a two-hour show every day, so you can eat what you want.

Day Doing Eat Every
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When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

About Does Enjoying Getting
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Leave no one behind. Be inclusive. Whatever you choose to do in life, always remember this: involving others in designing solutions that affect them will ensure ownership and ultimately sustainability.

Leave No one Inclusive Choose
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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Actually Attention Been Has-Been
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Am Get I Am Older
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The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Power State Violence Overthrows
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War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

War Jungle Bush-clearing Thicker
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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Accomplished Art Enthusiasm Nothing
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Determined Ensemble Every First
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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Am Around Bubbles Fresh
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You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

Course Crash Dancer Just
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Men Know themselves Longer fools Wisdom
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Admired Also Could He
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

Chords Cruel English Five
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Applied Back Body End
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I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

Ancestors Built Decent Deep
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I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.

Appreciate Beatles Could Devotion
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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Sublime faith Human imbecility Cherish
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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Men Women Understand Nature
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

The family Important Human beings
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Parent Train Children Equal importance
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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Fresh stage Education Little Preparation
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Becoming clear Old platitudes Maintained Moral
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I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

Been Born Ever Example
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