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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest

Method Wisdom Reflection Imitation
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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

Believe Impress Evidence Reject
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Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Pattern Reality Point Sense
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
Cherish You
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Lesson Live Understood Life
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Life Important Mine Walk
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Turn Life Potential Power
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Pour Store Harm Vessel
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves

Loose End Men Hang
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The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Kingdom Heaven Treasure Hidden
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

Great Spoil Possibility Most
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Reach Goal Believe Plan
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We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

Couple Long Road trips Hassle
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Unique Culture Single Mold
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The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

State Born Freedom Assume
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One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Promise Fulfill Fool Understand
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

Problem People Around Time
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

Conscience Blush Sincerely Man
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Audience Dynamic Quality Environment
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact; can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Truth Antithesis Antagonism Society
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Power Domination Control Selective
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Leaders Always Elected Habit
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Old People Sweetness Mouths
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Era Live Grow Virtue
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

Flights Preserve Hearthrows Hub
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.

Cities Big Style Same
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Burn Life Bridge Cross
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There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Science Literature Patronage Promotion
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Science Investigates Religion Interprets
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Fiction Reality Interpret Volition
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My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories.

Accessories Black Changing Favorite
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Direction Education Starts Future
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Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Relationship Love Best Exceeds
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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

Violent Kiss Ends Like
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This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Life Virtue Honour Poor
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If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

Joy Work Life Chosen
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Ideas Class Epoch Ruling
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The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.

Work Faith Healing Deliverance
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When you do children's TV or one episode guest stuff, you have to listen, which is also a great thing to learn. But you don't have individual input.

Children Episode Guest TV
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I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

Agreement Any Armed Assure
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Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

After Always Any Been
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Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

World Outside Form Might
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We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

Learn Better Worth Wealth
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Exercise Harm Body Hold
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderment of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.

Sense Common Remember Eye
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It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Feel Own Grow Owe
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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

Pay Price Choose Poison
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You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

Price Pay Choose Get
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If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Courage Dim Light Shine
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