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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Before Catching Miss Only
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Always Badly Being Governed
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Because Consistent Easier Fact
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Changing Happier Hopelessly Interested
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Different Eminent Great Man
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Act Cannot Ceases Essence
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Based Ethics Good Held
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Consider Essential Foundation Hold
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

Bad Constitution Good However
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I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Become Intended Never Person
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You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

Because Become Brain Fail
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The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

Align Aware Become Changed
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Ability Become Control Counterproductive
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I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Against Decided Discovered First
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

Ability Achieve Believe Choose
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You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'

Create Done Finger Going
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And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

Always Everything Necessary Need
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

About Agenda Appreciated Deeds
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Have Liberal Temperament Kind
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

Activism Begin Change Changes
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Always Ground Pleasant Something
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The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

About Acquire Always Cloud
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But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

Continue Matter Meet Open
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Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

Child Important Job Most
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

Allowing America Believe Born
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The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

Cannot Dealt Earth Forever
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Anyone Aware Become Despair
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If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Allow Coordinate Each Get
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I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

Always Beginning Believe Fine
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Detest Dishonesty Fare Honest
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Agony Blood Cheap Cost
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Baseball Baseball Game Clock Explained
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Anxious Error General Loudest
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Citizens Demand Glorify Hesitant
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Exact Greatness All Nature
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

Being Bright Cliff Considered
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Begin Common Disease Either
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Arena Cause Difficult Distant
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Fear Greater Hell Prisoner
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution

Citizen Country Fight Leaders Life
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I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

Cemetery Certainly Family Man
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I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

Being Control Decision Every
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Approach Child Difference Going
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Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Become Children Family Grown
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The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

Able Business Changed Control
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Desire End Felt Heard
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