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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Become Best Children Convinced
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Atheists Authority Automatically Beliefs
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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

About Among Argue Critics
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Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.

Insecure Joke Line More
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The fool is not he who asks what and when he/ she doesn’t know. The fool is he/she that is so confident that they don’t ask out of pride, so they don’t seem dumb and they still end up making fools of themselves!

Fool Who ask Confident Pride
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.

Acting Always American American Idol
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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Men Pursuit Rest Themselves
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Companion Lay Lays Many
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Back Character Conditions Defined
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The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

Before Changes Classes Determined
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Young ones must have the fear of God in them, they must respect themselves and others, they must respect their profession, they must have the love of God, and obey the laws of the land. They mustn’t be involved in criminal activities that would stain their family name, and society.

Young ones Fear God Respect themselves
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.

I think Women Very scared Celebrate
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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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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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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Art Dancing Stands Express themselves
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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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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Give Had
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Fancy Give
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The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Thriftless People Californians Nothing
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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Before Bright Faint Feel
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Let us see more in others than they see in themselves, there is no greater gift to give one another.

See more Others Themselves Greatest gift
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The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.

Above Ambition Danger Elevate
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The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.

About Always Answer Become
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It is an obvious fact that when an age is torn loose from its moorings and everyone is to some degree thrown on his own, most people can take steps to find and realize themselves.

Age Degree Everyone Fact
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I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

Able Also Being Changing
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Absolutely Change Circumstances Different
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People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Causes Family Feed Might
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Billions Carbon Chemistry Compounds
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Care Cultivate Eyes Garden
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Different Go Matter Modern
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For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Else Fail Find Journey
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Anxious Bound Circumstances Improve
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You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

Care God Help Helps
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
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To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Acting Express Great Logical
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Men Great riches Culture Business
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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Cats Cities Like Night
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A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

Actor Almost Base Being
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Arm Forever Gives Govern
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

People Drink Afraid Revealing themselves
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Anyone who thinks they're indispensable is fooling themselves.

Anyone Indispensable Fooling
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I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

Because Between Connection Consciousness
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Less More People Them
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To think that some of our teachers flogged us back then in school for speaking our language. Calling it vernacular. Can you imagine? You speak your own language you get flogged. All those teachers should be ashamed of themselves. Oyibo people really messed up our brains.

Our teachers Flogged us School Language
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Because Black Feel Know
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Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Men have Religion Science Methodical comparisons
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.

Reasons Inequality Country Everyone
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I would rather say "Heaven helps those who ADMIT they cannot help themselves"

Rather say Heaven help Admit Help themselves
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When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves.

Affirm Own tightness Operate Own nature
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You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

Being yourself Help others Recognize Own uniqueness
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