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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Cell Darkness Diminish Glory
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Ahead Behind Better Kind
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Creatures Dark Eyes Found
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Afflictions Anxieties Christ Defect
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Desire Either End Image
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Analysis Else Existence Fails
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On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.

Borders Came Day Down
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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Actions Consistent Consistently Control
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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Change Exactly Exactly What Lives
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Begin Comfort Despair Either
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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Accomplish Achieve Decade How
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Nonsense Questions Quite Mortal
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Atheist Cannot Careful Man
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Another Educated English Good
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

Acting Business Get Here
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

Away Gave Had Half
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Apple Pie First Invent
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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

Always Beyond Goals Live
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

Better Men Office Planet
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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Despair Draw Endure Forced
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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

Disguise Grapes Hidden Human
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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Act Free Imitators Initiative
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cherish Community Cultural Nation
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Best Better Book Consist
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The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.

America Burdens Change Fail
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Back Bar Bunch Dice
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference
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The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
Against Female Loves Man
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

After Going Hot Hours
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Alone Circus Die Love
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I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Society Shaped Rules Bum
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Business English Great Principle
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Answer Baby Born Complete
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Contrast Dark Shadows Earth
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Fan Flame Friendship Pass
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Beliefs Events Lives Mean
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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Attach Become Environment Events
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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Begin Consistent Control Daily
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It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Decision Destiny Moments Shaped
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I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Anime Before Comics Even
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Arrangement Benevolent Friendship Greater
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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Arms Debarred Freeman Shall
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Decide Government Hesitate Latter
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Blood From Time To Time Liberty Must
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Friendship I Wish Mankind May
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Consequence Consolidation Corruption Country
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Body Dawn Day Enlighten
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Case Citizen Every Free
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