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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Aim Choice Desire Doing
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Bound Critic Dismal Every
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Heart Listening Necessary Never
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Belong Death Forever Found
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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Expect Find Reached Search
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Over Again Boredom Control
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Nobody Takes Anything Who
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Love Meant Also Sign
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Become Each Him Honor
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Better Unhappy Know Worst
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To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

Love Another Person See
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Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Only One Thing To
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Respected Others Great Respect
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Affected Aging Challenges Creates
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Almost Bed Before Gone
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

Left Maine Always Working
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

College Come Know Love
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

Housekeeping Incredibly Difficult With
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Sure Have If Political
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Bored Penalty People Success
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I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

Captivity Dancing Like Little
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Allowed Considered Enough Go
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This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Create Dance Get Like
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Dumb Enough Intelligent IntelligentPeople
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Analysis Become Enable Get
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Best Dealing Insane Method
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Amazed Cease Done Earth
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Always Am Fraud Gentleman
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Between Binding Cease Come
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Choice Ecstasy Even Feet
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Doubted Guiding Guilt Never
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

There Believe Element Happiness
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Effective Existence Infinite Means
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Comforting Arithmetical Disproportion Only
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Anyone Cannot Hence Itself
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

When Becomes Ceases Free
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Able Away Happiness Moment
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Finding Free Goal Means
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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Appears Art Challenge Impossible
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Been Begins Certain Certain Point
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Anger Beasts Becomes Belongs
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Ability Ambition Appetite Assert
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Lovable Loved Want You
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Allowing Authority Conflicting Force
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Cruel Does Fiber Free
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Actions Bring Distilled Feelings
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Be Careful Better Careful Day
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Always Children Express Invariably
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Being Better Constantly Desiring
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Bear Enough Misfortunes Others
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