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Most problems are caused by solutions.
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Problem
Solutions
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The major cause of problems are solutions
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Causes
Problem
Solutions
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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
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Solutions
Cause
Chief
Problems
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The chief source of problems is solutions.
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Chiefs
Problem
Source
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Saints are usually killed by their own people.
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Religion
People
Saint
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Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.
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Journey
Knowledge
Home
Guy
Ordinary
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Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
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Fifty
Miles
Ordinary
Consultant
Ordinary Guy
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No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
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Men
Meals
Suicide
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Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
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Life
Ducks
Executives
Television
Dealing
Network
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For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
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Christmas
Smile
Adults
Children
Memories
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Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
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Dream
Brotherhood
Profit
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Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
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Men
Boys
Order
Boy
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Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
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Wisdom
Essentials
President
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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
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Optimist
Pessimist
Tomorrow
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Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
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Trust
Men
Doubt
Errors
Man Better Never
Man
Never
Who
Error
Frequently
Than
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The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
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American Society
Distinguished
Hallmark
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You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
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Knows
Nations
People
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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
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Power
Humor
Dangerous
Honor
Next
Dangerous Thing
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
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Courage
Smile
Freedom
Mean
Media
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Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.
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Gardener
Hands
Sentences
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The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.
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Clubs
Earth
Media
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The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
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Jobs
Calling
People
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
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Constant
Never Quit
Thousand
Voice
Worry
Grasped
Speaks
Voices
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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
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Christmas
Smile
Xmas
Gifts Of The Spirit
Holiday
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The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
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America
Anxiety
Steel
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People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.
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Anarchy
Choices
People
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The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
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Men
Boys
Differences
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It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.
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Helping Others
People
Responsibility
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Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."
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Bravery
Fur
Principles
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There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.
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Magic
People
Two
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.
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America
Cities
House
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It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.
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Army
Erosion
Issues
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