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"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."
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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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"Atheism is the last word of theism."
Religion
"Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented."
Marriage
"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."
Nature
"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."
Music
"Oh, what lies there are in kisses."
Humor
"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."
Death
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
Books
"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"
Religion
"In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress."
Creativity
"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
Eloquence
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