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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana
Beautiful
World
Liberty
Wealth
Walk
Possessions
Would
About
Adorn
Take
Like
Beautiful Things
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Because
Private
Personal
Any
Decline
Should
Away
Among
Things
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
History
You
People
Nothing
See
About
Know
Make
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Who
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
Gretchen Rubin
Love
Words
Few
Distilled
Complex
Collect
Paradoxes
See
Ideas
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Because
Proverbs
Maxims
Stories
Aphorism
Teaching
Axiom
Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.
Gza
Me
You
Writing
Before
Think
Thinking
Carefully
Like
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Chess
Move
Planning
I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy.
Harper Reed
Technology
Enemy
Wish
Would
Never
Failing
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Opponent
Any
If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes.
Heather Brooke
Justice
Care
Club
Community
Benefit
Solely
System
See
Classes
Entire
More
Costs
Lawyers
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Judges
Becomes
Cozy
Than
Afford
Upper
Done
Middle
Being
Being Done
Public
Little
Then
I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
Hedy Lamarr
Love
Me
Love Me
Men
Enjoy
Hundreds
Those
Pursuing
Attention
Countless
Most
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Am
Flattered
Who
Showing
Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?
Henry Lawson
Home
Thanks
Every
Other
Our
Way
Says
Finds
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His
His Way
Australia
Offers
Get
Any
Shores
Poor
Who
Englishman
Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.
Hoda Kotb
Me
Sometimes
Big
Control
Too
Way
Bit
Out
Kind
About
Weird
Weird Thing
Check
Sort
Self-Preservation
Where
Little
Little Bit
Thing
Things
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore de Balzac
Youth
Intelligence
Passion
Fools
Insight
Give
Observed
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Idiots
Brings
I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
Howard Stern
You
People
Some
Seem
Lightning
Know
Sort
Rod
Just
Irritate
Really
The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.
Humphrey Lyttelton
You
Other
Secret
Vocal
Something
Put
Know
Read
Sort
Got
Than
Suspect
Front
Anything
The Secret Of
Mean
Double
Meaning
Double Meaning
Pause
Radio
Expression
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
Jack Canfield
Life
You
Criticism
Lose
Rejection
States
Kids
Possibility
Ability
Somehow
Shall
Adulthood
Come
Excuses
Sort
Up
Truths
Get
Any
Ask
Asking
Used
Avoid
Reasons
Fundamental
Things
Receive
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
James M. Barrie
You
Woman
Matter
Else
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Bloom
Anything
Anything Else
Much
Need
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.
James Rothman
Truth
Knowledge
Truth Is
Some
Indirect
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Almost
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Another
Prize
Candidate
May
Anyone
Who
Receives
But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
John Cusack
Democracy
You
Political
Sorry
Party
Blindly
Duty
Think
Other
Way
Some
Feel
Participate
Participation
Know
Sort
Political Party
Than
Getting
Behind
Just
Want
Process
Mean
Requires
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
John Frusciante
Time
Me
Relationship
You
Experience
Main
Main Thing
Know
Sort
Taught
Thing
Hone
I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.
John Krasinski
Work
Love
You
Marriage
People
Bad Things
Looking
Think
Guilty
Bad
Over
Know
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How
How Much
Lot
Getting
Going
Much
Really
Prepare
Keep
Keep Going
Things
It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.
John Muir
Food
Man
Risks
Strange
Lie
Sharks
Men
Poison
Young
Defense
Easily
Hunt
Running
Guns
Seem
Fond
Seems
Only
Bear
Attack
Bears
Except
Could
Never
Pick
Fires
Perhaps
Safely
Learned
Sort
Tigers
How
Wolves
Up
Us
Asleep
Should
Flesh
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
John Scofield
Song
Other
Back
Some
Write
Head
Like
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Parts
Always
Hear
Been
Years
Version
Going
Orchestrated
Tune
Fully
Many
Vague
I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.
Joichi Ito
Between
Sort
Always
Dialog
Provide
Ambassador
Role
Viewed
Help
Bridge
Groups
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift
Men
Animals
Fighting
Other
Imitation
Diversion
Most
Sort
Children
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Genius
Better
See
Magic
Magic Wand
Inspiration
Clearly
Beware
Like
Sort
Wand
Anybody
Wants
Sparingly
Should
Used
Notions
Who
Things
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky
Man
Change
Soul
Political
Believe
Tries
Some
Outside
He
Looks
Make
Himself
Sort
Within
Personal
Movement
Movements
Ashamed
Who
I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.
Josh Homme
You
Think
Out
Gives
Disappear
Sort
Because
Jungle
While
Coolest
Things
Chance
Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and friendships. I always sort of approached the film with that in mind first, and then thought about the crazy ways that that horror would express itself.
Karyn Kusama
Crazy
Mind
Thought
Girl
First
Reading
Ways
Would
About
Horror
Between
Sort
Always
Itself
Friendships
Just
Script
Then
Really
Body
Express
Jennifer
Film
Here
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