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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
Appearance
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Daniel Webster
Away
Every
Life
Man
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Daniel Webster
Bad
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Done
Many
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Daniel Webster
All Things
Answered
Ends
Great
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
C. S. Lewis
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison
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Just
Just Because
Mean
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Thomas A. Edison
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Hell
Here
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Thomas A. Edison
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison
Anything
Invent
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
Achieve
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison
Behind
Denying
Everything
Exists
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton
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Event
Every
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton
America
Anything
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Thomas Merton
Anything
Anything Else
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson
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Dyslexic
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'
Richard Branson
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
C. S. Lewis
Ahead
Behind
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Kind
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
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Christianity
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Everyone
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Thomas Sowell
Bureaucrats
Everything
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Nothing
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton
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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.
Ted Turner
Adequately
Good
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Know
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis
Apart
Before
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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?
C. S. Lewis
Happiness
Hard
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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.
C. S. Lewis
Always
Anything
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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.
Ted Turner
Anything
Attitude
Could
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Ted Turner
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Fired
Nothing
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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.
Carl Sagan
Anyone
Anything
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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.
Carl Sagan
Power
Prescription
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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
Ted Turner
Always
Beyond
Goals
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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.
Carl Sagan
Beings
Home
Human
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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.
Carl Sagan
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.
Carl Sagan
Clearly
Confused
Credulous
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
Ted Turner
Around
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Fast
Get
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When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
Carol Burnett
Disappointment
Discouraged
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Try
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Ted Turner
Better
Biggest
Biggest Thing
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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.
Ted Turner
Could
Country
Cure
Diseases
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Cesar Chavez
Defeat
Non-Violence
Thing
Such
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Ted Turner
Derogatory
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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.
Ted Turner
Back
Best
Buying
Cable
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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.
Ted Turner
About
Destroying
Elephants
Environment
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Artist
Hard
Intellectual
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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.
Charles Bukowski
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.
Charles Bukowski
Alone
Circus
Die
Love
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Charles Bukowski
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