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There is no advance without strife.
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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
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Bliss
Ignorance
Oblivion
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
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Freedom
Liberty
Mean
Meaning
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God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
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Religion
Common
Hate
People
Common People
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Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
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Individual
Inferiority
Superiority
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The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.
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Quality
Liberty
Trying
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
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Appreciation
Change
Smile
Good
Teacher
Citizens
Good Teacher
Lifetime
May
Good Teacher May
Citizen
Delinquent
Solid
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Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.
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Minorities
People
Powerful
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So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.
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Artist
Phrases
Would Be
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Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
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Determined
Ignorance
Kind
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Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
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Blessing
Headache
Simple Life
Simplicity
Category
Blessings
Fruitful
Material
Weirdly
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Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.
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Education
Church
Cities
States
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Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken
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Certain Knowledge
Doers
Done
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The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
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Children
School
Stars
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The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.
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Men
Eye
Parent
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I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.
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Kind
Mean
People
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Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.
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Men
Destiny
Lying
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Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.
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Wise
Men
Cheer
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Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
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Men
Gears
Long
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A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today and the hairy men with clubs who accompanied Attila to the city of Rome.
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Men
Average
Rome
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The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)
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Book
League
May
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But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
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Men
Blood
Brain
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In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy.
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Dream
Children
Ideas
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