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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Always Believe End I Believe
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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Atrocious Devoted Effort Fanatical
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Always Arts Believe Everything
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

AllNations Birth Bound Decadence
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When given opportunity without direction, take initiative. Be bold. Win or lose, do all you can with the opportunity

Given Opportunity Win Take initiative
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One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

One Man Head Shoulder
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If given an opportunity and you choose to take it, especially in times where opportunities are heavily diminished, give it your best, be accountable for your choices, and be grateful. With so many suffering, complaining thru success may not be the best choice.

Given Opportunity Best Choice
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You are not born with character. It is forged by your choices.
Born Character Forged You
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Fear Hope NoFear NoHope
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Alone Consent Entire Free
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A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
Lady Gentleman Dance Supper
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A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.
Gentleman Never Hat Flourish
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Cannot Fear Hope Nor
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The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.

Money Commodity Intrinsically Best
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How we view ourselves is often not how we are perceived by others. Surround yourself with those who give honest (even uncomfortable) opinions on who you are to them.

Perceived Surround Opinions Uncomfortable
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Any of us can find an excuse to be distracted, challenge yourself to come up with more excuses to be present.

Distracted Excuse Present Challenge yourself
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Becoming Established How Know
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Desires Difficulty Govern Men
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Be who you are regardless of who you are with.

Regardless You Who
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We're just a bunch of angry kinds with no money.
Bunch Angry Kinds Money
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Others will dislike you. Others will disagree with you. Over time, if you are consistent in sticking to your values and beliefs, others will respect you.

Dislike Disagree Over time Beliefs
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We are so quick to find flaws with those who try. Succeed or fail, those who try will be far wiser, braver, stronger, and more ready to try again than the passive skeptic.

Flaws Succeed Fail Wiser
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Conceived God Nothing Whatsoever
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It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Album Artwork Behind Collaborating
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Am Band Ben Big
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My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that

Chorus Details Down Dwarf
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Meaningful development can't take place without adequate security

Meaningful Development Security Adequate
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God has blessed us with all the qualities, it’s left to us to search within ourselves and find our unique qualities and strengths

God Blessed Qualities Unique
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Terms Like That Humane
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Pain Reaches Heart Electrical
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

What You Loose Blindness
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

What A Writer Do
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Aim Concentrated Women Learn
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. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

Woman True Engrossed Dress
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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

Passion Oxygen Chemistry Book
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I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Abuse Basis Being Bullied
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“There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.
Exist Everyone Passion Thirst
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file.

Morning Begins With Trying
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“The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.”

Experience Fellow Danger Training
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“Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or quarreler?”

Remember Boy Rebel Fail
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“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”

Gospel Old Story Freshly
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“If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!”

God Bypass Something
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Dying is not a solution.. I want to live with You..!”

Dying Solution Live
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“I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.”

Patriot Breathe Steadfast Belief
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I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

Four Friends Grew Known
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A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Any Attention Before Church
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Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
Creation Good Now Relation
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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
Light Like Men Off
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The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

Atheists Blood Catholics Christ
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