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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
Came Europe Hampton Out
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One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.

Gamble Irreplaceable Precious
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Ashamed Ask Attribute Been
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Any Assurance Built Entertaining
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Always Any Because Common
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Any Author Bestowed Bible
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Every Far He More
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I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Been Better Cattle Change
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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Around Coming Day Directions
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In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

Best Depends Desirable Feed
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Prince Government Dangerous Elements
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Adventurous Armed Beasts Came
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In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Avalanche Came Danger End
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Attribute Fortune Achieved
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One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Best Broad Climb Close
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I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

Anything Bread Considered Days
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Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Coming Conductor Contact Divinity
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Alone Baggage Chatter Dust
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Because Character Concerned Merely
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Anything Achieved Danger
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No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Any Ever Gentleman Lady
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Cannot Interfere You Do
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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

Back Bible Get Giving
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Acquainted Adversity Becomes Being
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Ability Accomplished Measure Should
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A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

Also Around Feelings Her
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A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

Causing Coach Correction Give
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What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

Cannot Happens People Reality
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Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.
Am I Am Intimacy Reality
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There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

America Angry Change Heart
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Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Argue Life People Smart
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Acquired Arriving Cannot Essential
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I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Been Important In The Past Like
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My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

Gay Audience Has Been
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With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

With One Man There
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I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

Being Friendly With Someone
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The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

The Moment Doctor Told
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You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

You Can Be Very
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I am in love with my La Cornus custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

Love Cornus Custom Made
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.

Love Have Bath With
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You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

You Need Lot Luck
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Lot Properly Trained Training
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

Been Benefit Consequence Deep
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

Aware Been Continent Dedicated
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

All My Heart All My Life Heart Life
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Keep Joneses Drag Level
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Mother Protected Father
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Nerve Imagine Force Planets
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Vice Reward Marketed Consumer
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

About Father Figure Five
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