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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself

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