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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Certainly Earn Even Given
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

About Close Could Even
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The first step that should be taken in fighting the corruption war is not to fight corruption with a political face.

Face First Taken Step
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I told workers, no governor or public office holder can steal without the cooperation of a civil worker.

Public Civil Holder Steal
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The law has its process, there are agencies that takes care of corruption, we should allow them do their duty without preempting them.

Duty Process Care Allow
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If we are ready to fight corruption, then let's sit tight about it and do away with politics.

Ready Away Fight Tight
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God be with you. I did not put myself here, you all put me here.

Put Myself God You
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

Am Dogs Girl Her
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

Dreadful Fall Go Life
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Cultivate Faith Good Harmony
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Confidence Courteous Few Give
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Actions Attachment Convince Criterion
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

Eating Go Grab Healthy
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It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Arriving Being Impossible Reason
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Adversity Always Better Cherish
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Any Chief Chief Executive Executive
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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Church Corporation Dead Equally
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

Bear Church Church And State Declare
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

Armed Deal Nothing Only
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Atheism Bigots Complete Fanatics
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Against Also Book Books
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Being Book Concepts Contains
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Before Die Fear Instead
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Dog Fool Great He
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Animal Eat Friendly He
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Bear Burden Decided Great
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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Cuts Heals Sword Man
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Dignity Excellence Humanity Importance
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Academic Being Certain Colleagues
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Accepts Against Evil Helps
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Between China Defects Even
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Identify Many People Problems
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Anxiety Becomes Dwell Future
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion Spirituality Without You
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Fatal God His Own
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Also Animals Appear Appearance
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Able Culture Enough First
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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
Average Blonde Blue Blue Eyes
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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

Better Cheats Does Relationship
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Answer Any Asked Because
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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

Being Certain Certain Way Character
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

Daughter Garden Hang Happy
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
Machine Me Options Sophistication
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Idleness Men Sin Some
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Bounds Function Keep Reasonable
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I want to be remembered as just basically somebody who fought with a lot of passion.

Basically Fought Just Lot
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I enjoy competing, and I love to get out there, and I feel like I could compete with anyone in the world, and it took me a long time to get like that.

Anyone Compete Competing Could
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I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.

Boy Dating Experienced Very
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I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

Anywhere Camping Doing Fine
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