Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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City Reclaim Vast Wander
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”

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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Many Say
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?

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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Amn Another Been Civilized Completely Ever Known never Nobody Thousand Year
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.

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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Boredom Dull Know Many Philosopher Unnecessarily
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Any Belive Living Seem Think
I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Curing Give Heard Malaria Patient Syphill
if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.

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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Being Commuter Leader Officer Plumber Rotary Salesmen Salvation Wearers
I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.

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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Complaint Conceivable General Have Industrialism Make Yet
The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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All Blunder But Could Manage Nobody
It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.

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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Dam Discourage Go Real Say Writer
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Become Friend Liability More Quater Reasonable Tyranny Under
My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .

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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Actual Church Hypocritical Peacher Some Them Through Wick
I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Drink Exactly Now
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Been Being Large Not Upon Yet
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Absurd Become Could Doubt Regain Whatever

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

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