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As the essence of our existence it embodies our culture, true identity, nationhood and destiny.

Existence Embodies Culture True identity
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To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

See hillside Dogwood bloom Ecstasy Beauty
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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing-if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination

Snowdrift Beautiful thing Lie across Road
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My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour.

Except Hunting King Labour
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I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it.

Begun England History Interesting
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As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

Appetite Become Channels Could
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You lose a lot of time, hating people.

Hating Hating People Lose Lot
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The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Any Bring Contributing Good
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Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Across Because Brushing Cheek
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There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Because Fellow First He
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I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people

Hating Hatingpeople Lose Lot
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Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Anything Going Maturity No-One
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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Also Child Confronting Fairy
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The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Best Cause Damage Done
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Everything is acting.
Acting Art Everything
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We can’t keep celebrating the commercialism of our existence without embracing the sacrifice for our freedom.

Keep celebrating Commercialism Embracing
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Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.
Preventing Conflicts Changing Mind set
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…Girls hating on girls is so out the door. The only competition you are in is to outdo your past.

Girls Door Competition Past
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Beautiful Belong Cultivate Cultivating
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Afterwards Ashamed Hands Necessarily
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We will not pay lip service to fighting corruption.

Lip service Fighting Corruption Fighting
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The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

Ambition Continue Deserve Exalted
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What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Blamed Gets Know Music
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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Becomes Beyond Certain Certain Point
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Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.
Expecting Me Return Sacrifice
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Because Come Dawn Death
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Environment Even Fantastic Feeling
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Almost Amount Around Enormous
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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous

Because Discover Famous Fifteen
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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Coat Dry Get Martini
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I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Down Most Shine Sitting
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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Because Dull Exciting Jersey
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon

Biggest BiggestObstacle Changing Necessity
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

Any Author Authorities Been
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The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Am Art Beautiful Dance
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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

After Coming Family Frozen
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Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

About Beautiful BeautifulWomen Cast
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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands

About Beginning Casting Everything
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Author Difficult First Front
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If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

According Become Belief Blind
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Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
Census Effective EffectiveWay Getting
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I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

Anything Exciting Great GreatMemories
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I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

Got Never Outsiders Prom
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There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.

Against Bias Deep Good-Looking
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

Genius Overflowing vitality Fertilize Nature
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Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.

The maiden Climbed Branches
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Against Biggest Biting Committed
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

Action Distinguished Fabrication Possible
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Easy Interesting Less Life
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Adult All-Around Am Around
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