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Rise above principal and do what’s right.

Joseph Heller

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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Bulling Difficult Drug Endurance Failure Meditation Success Suicide
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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Deal Greatness Important Work
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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Adjective Adverb Death Declare Hands
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Agree Education Necessary People Possible Question
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
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Air Exercise Fresh Meet Opportunity People Prostitution Trouble
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Imagination Mercy Process Understand
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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Angel Decent Heaven Human Impulse Poeple Saint Tragedy
Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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Born Innocence
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace

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