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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Comfort Contentment End Come
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Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Think Something Often Beginning
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Respect Around Cease Love
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Endowed Sense Reason Intellect
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when you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

World Attention Command Common
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

Earn Respect Find Approval
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
Truly Knowledge Ignorant
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Great Wisdom Petty Contentious
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Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him.
Word Man Forgotten
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Forever Wrong Tend Stay
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Hard work and intention often go unnoticed. All people see is what you don't do or what they think you should be doing better.

Better Hard Intention Work
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Pride Simply Smitten Military
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Turn Life Potential Power
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If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.

Nature Change Attitude Towards
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

Forgotten Man Words
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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

Thousands Sage Mind Distract
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The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Heaven Forgotten
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We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

Alone Beautiful Blind Deaf
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When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.
True
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
Intensity Passion Work Amount
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

West Evil Often Done
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I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

Listen Work Play Hear
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There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same

Tendency Treat Prejudice Disability
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Ability Listen Temper Almost
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

People Freedom Involve Want
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Most Listen Intent Reply
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I'm in a wheelchair. And I realized that it's not that, it's because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That's a universal thing.

Falling Love Girlfriend Dating
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Down Liberty Peace Defense
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

Love Image Perfect Potential
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Dark Mind Once Again
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Need Lost Wheelchair Technically
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Often Art All Sometime
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Long Day Smile Everyone
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

Soul Heart Romance Offered
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Have Speech Never Often
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

Problem People Around Time
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Worth Kind Force Break
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Model Fashion Adveance Good
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Leaders Always Elected Habit
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Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

Change Extort Forever Intend
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Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Power Corrupt Stop Felt
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

Perhaps Generate Plastic Society
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

Online Years Uploading Archive
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
Movies Tend Aesthetic Story
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A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

Movies Visually Powerful Crowd
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Doubt Vanity Those Existence
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Intimacy Intense Deep Known
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