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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Death Fear Itself Meaning
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There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

Collectively Establishment Every Fear
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Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

Beautiful Keeps Myself Surrounding
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I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Anybody Guess Know Man
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No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Community Cut Entirely Human
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The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Democracy Dictatorship Exists Here
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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Away Being Constant Continue
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Achievements Apt Chance Design
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Folly He Lives Thinks
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Altogether Come Despite Experience
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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Fortunes Judging Know Men
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Deserves Generally Goodness His
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Even ice cream truck dey announce with jingle bell from far.

Ice cream Jingle bell Far Announce
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Always Arms Does Genius
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Against Anchor Drift Lie
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Ourselves Outward Peace Seek
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Any Conscious Each Face
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Brook Dozen Finds Fish
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Crowded Fruition Happy Hours
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The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

Biggest Oil Planet Problem
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Considers Crime Going Happy
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Without music, life would be a mistake.

Life Mistake Music Without
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The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Around Bummer Hooked Like
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Able Age Ask Believe
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Become Bore Care Fights
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I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Cause Effect Ends Journalism
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Confuse Defeat Final Never
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Against Happens Just Law
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Admitting Advertising Business Cannot
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Both Find Hands Lucky
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Charm Combined Distinction Fascinated
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Because Bottom Boy Echoes
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Art Comparison Intolerance Itself
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Begin Country End Few
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Addiction Comfortable Everybody Guilty
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Arthritis Connection Different Discouragement
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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

Audience Back Become Culture
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Children Doll Girl Her
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Confuse Everywhere News Newspapers
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Each Friendship Incompatible Other
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Alive Bring Disadvantages Enough
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girl Like Little Played
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Because Children Delight Discovered
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
After Before Breakfast Ends
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Am I Am Man Money
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Considered Good Happy I Think
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I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

All My Heart Day Die Ever
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The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Be Happy Before Being Being Selfish
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

City Evening Eye Glass
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