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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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I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Circumstances Events Extraordinary ExtraordinaryCircumstances
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake

Back Baffled Better Break
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If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities… the expression of love… then life itself loses its meaning.

Personally free Human activities Life
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Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

Beings Condition Fame Human
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Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

America Beings Class Democratic
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Genius Falls short Actuality Human life
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The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
Greatest evil Committed Human beings
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Again Anything Become Even
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Championship Chess Computer Forward
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Hardly Better way Discussion Releasing
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To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent

Sum up Politically speaking Power Violence
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Appeal Autumn Best Decay
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The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.

Possible metaphor Conceive Life Mind
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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Culture Environment Exists Form
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Character Faith Fear Hope
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The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

Worth writing People Human beings Men
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength

Breaks Land Loaded Sea
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Beneath Foot His Make
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Autumn Beauty End Garner
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I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

Become Boy Consumed Creation
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I don’t care about the skin color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That’s just the bottom line of the truth.
Skin color Human being Bleed red
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I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter.

About Favorite FavoriteThing Gatekeepers
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Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.

Ask Bogart Even Hollywood
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Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

Away Film Hottest Kid
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I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Above Average Career Medium
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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Bedrock Better Down Get
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To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Blame Computer Err Even
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Proud Yourself Insulted Stranger
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One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

One thing Certain circumstances Do anything
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So inconsistent Human nature Undertake
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In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

Alternative Choices Crisis Fight
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Talk Abuses Essence
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I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

Arm Around Call Gentle
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Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Humor Like Starts Then
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike.
All ranks Life Human heart Beautiful things
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President Ford used humor a great deal.

Deal Ford Great Great Deal
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Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Art Power Transform Illuminate
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The fool is not he who asks what and when he/ she doesn’t know. The fool is he/she that is so confident that they don’t ask out of pride, so they don’t seem dumb and they still end up making fools of themselves!

Fool Who ask Confident Pride
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People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Around People Constantly Emotions
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I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

Always Confident Definitely Feeling
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I really think if you're trying to look good, do something athletic. I have a little mini tramp, and sometimes I'll just try to jump for 20 minutes. It gets your blood circulating, and that always looks really pretty.

Always Athletic Blood Gets
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I've learned a lot from trainers over the years, but mainly that you need discipline to stay in the gym and out of the many fine cupcake emporiums on every corner.

Corner Discipline Every Fine
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Arrive Brave Forgive Generous
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Alarm Consists Courtship Nor
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Consumption Goals Heights Pleasure
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Absurd Argument Been Christian
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Actions Appearance Case Compliment
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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Affectionate Communication Humor Insight
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