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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."
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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."
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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."
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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."
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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."
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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."
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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
Death

"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
Old

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Happiness

"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
Society

"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."
Time

"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
Expectation

"A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down."
Self

"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
Poetry

"When in doubt do it."
Action

"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Love
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