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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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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

Adequately Good Grab Know
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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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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Apart Before Began Done
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Happiness Hard Interests Less
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

Always Anything Clear Language
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Anything Attitude Could Doing
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
Being Fired Nothing Wrong
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Body Knowledge More Science
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Anyone Anything Dependent Hardly
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Power Prescription Science Technology
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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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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Beings Home Human Planet
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

Dust Enormity Numerous Sand
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Clearly Confused Credulous Dangers
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

Around Broke Fast Get
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When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

Disappointment Discouraged Things Try
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
Better Biggest Biggest Thing Learned
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Could Country Cure Diseases
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Defeat Non-Violence Thing Such
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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
Derogatory Fight Start Thing
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Back Best Buying Cable
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

Apart Believe Better Country
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

About Destroying Elephants Environment
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
Earth Frogs Giraffes Like
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Artist Hard Intellectual Says
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Always Depends Finds First
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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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The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Against Fear Humor Thing
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive.

Achieved Productive Bed You
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Between Constructed Construction Created
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Attached Close Conceal Heart
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Joy Meeting Pain Parting
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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 is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Emergency Life Safe Simple
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Brings Children Existence Injustice
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Better Done Ever Far
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Bleeds Dangerous Good Inwardly
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

About Act Beings Determine
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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Failure Only Results Such
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I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.
Could Create Me Needed
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

About Before Drawing Fit
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

About Artist Being Black
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Better Educated Man Newspapers
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Always Handle Hold Smooth
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Believes Error He Ignorance
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