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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Governs Guilt Inexorable Innocence
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Aim Analogy Art Commentary
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Altogether Bad Interesting Less
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Deeply Feared Most Suffering
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Anything Catastrophe Changing Heading
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

About Angry Does Indicate
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Danger Computer Men Think
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Asking Democracy Only Ought
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Automatically Believes Deserves Enough
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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Apart Beauty Children Exactly
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Believes Count Cynic Determines
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Apparent Argument Being Escape
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Bed Born Embarrassing Fact
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Cannot Curiosity Drawn Indifference
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Age Bother Calling Hear
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Fault Generous Only People
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Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt.

Instant Begins Empties Faith
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Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

Already God Faith Something
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You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.

God Mess End Ugly
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It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

Mattered People Wrong Right
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As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

Child Mean Children Mind
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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Favorite Tenets People Agree
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I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Dishonesty People Honest Statistically
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Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

Woman Funny Wooden Table
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

Devil Foundation Work Apple
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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Won Undertake Thing Persistence
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Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

Love Enriched Earth Leave
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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Upright You Honest Interest
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God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

Human Creature Protection Right
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What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
Stands Higher Action Silence
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I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

Able Awesome Being Business
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Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Obama Michelle Tell Me
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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Bring Change Day Does
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Accomplishment Achieved Act Again
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Decisive Feeling Passion Politician
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Base Calling Crumble Face
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Facts His Inconvenient Mean
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

Base Calling Crumble He
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It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Evil Follow Good Good And Evil
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Chance Context Even Impose
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Astonishing Become Despite Easily
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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Again Attained Certainly Experience
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Application Arise Cause Determined
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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

Analysis Assumption Being Conduct
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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

Exact Important Laws Measure
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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Agents Concern Criminal Criminal Justice
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Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Available Causes Discard Favour
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The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Beckham Confess Girl Her
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The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

About Criticize Excess Fashion
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