[{"words":["ambition","poor","excuse","having","sense","lazy"],"answer":"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."},{"words":["say","society","says","god","dead","elvis","alive"],"answer":"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"},{"words":["explainyour","friends","need","enemies","believe"],"answer":"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."},{"words":["i","sit","desk","verse","clear","mind","clear","mind","i","incentive","need","write","write","order","understood","write","order","understand"],"answer":"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."},{"words":["women","live","creatively","rarely","experience","need","depict","write","primary","experience","men","know","second","remove","women","create","naturally","men","create","artificially"],"answer":"Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially."},{"words":["thoughts","birth","creative","force","elemental","sidereal","thoughts","create","new","heaven","new","firmament","new","source","energy","new","arts","flow","man","undertakes","create","establishes","new","heaven","work","desires","create","flows","immensity","man","greater","heaven","earth"],"answer":"Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth."},{"words":["creative","power","receptive","attitude","expectancy","makes","mold","plastic","undifferentiated","substance","flow","desired","form"],"answer":"Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form."},{"words":["folly","eminent","person","think","escaping","censure","weakness","affected","illustrious","persons","antiquity","age","passed","fiery","persecution","defense","reproach","obscurity","kind","concomitant","greatness","satires","invectives","essential","roman","triumph"],"answer":"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph."},{"words":["good","writer","necessarily","good","book","critic","good","drunk","automatically","good","bartender"],"answer":"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."},{"words":["believe","doing","let","hold","work","best","work","world","impossibilities","thing","work"],"answer":"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."},{"words":["censure","oblique","praise","self","uttered","wisdom","superiority","speaker","insidiousness","selfpraise","illdesert","falsehood"],"answer":"Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood."},{"words":["barren","kind","criticism","tells","thing"],"answer":"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."},{"words":["age","criticism","subjected","sacredness","religion","authority","legislation","regarded","grounds","exemption","examination","tribunal","exempted","lay","claim","respect","reason","accords","stood","test","free","public","examination"],"answer":"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination."},{"words":["doubtless","criticism","originally","benignant","pointing","beauties","work","defects","passions","men","malignant","bad","heart","procrustes","turned","bed","symbol","repose","instrument","torture"],"answer":"Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture."},{"words":["suffering","sarcasm"],"answer":"We are suffering from too much sarcasm."},{"words":["censure","wrong","writes","amiss"],"answer":"Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss."},{"words":["wide","association","life","meeting","great","men","various","parts","world","i","man","great","exalted","station","did","better","work","forth","greater","effort","spirit","approval","spirit","criticism"],"answer":"In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism."},{"words":["praise","blame","object","true","criticism","justly","discriminate","firmly","establish","wisely","proscribe","honestly","award","","true","aims","duties","criticism"],"answer":"Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism."},{"words":["half","secular","unrest","dismal","profane","sadness","modern","society","comes","vain","ideas","man","bound","critic","life"],"answer":"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."},{"words":["way","handle","ignorant","malicious","critic","ignore"],"answer":"There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him."},{"words":["usually","best","generous","praise","cautious","criticism"],"answer":"It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism."},{"words":["criticism","disapproval","people","having","faults","having","faults","different"],"answer":"Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own."},{"words":["strange","temper","resentment","criticism","thought","faults","escaped"],"answer":"It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us."},{"words":["curiosity","children","appetite","knowledge","great","reason","children","abandon","wholly","silly","pursuits","trifle","away","time","insipidly","curiosity","balked","inquiries","neglected"],"answer":"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected."},{"words":["man","live","satisfy","curiosity"],"answer":"A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity."},{"words":["wellspent","day","brings","happy","sleep","life","used","brings","happy","death"],"answer":"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death."},{"words":["sign","creeping","inner","death","longer","praise","living"],"answer":"It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living."},{"words":["fails","like","success"],"answer":"Nothing fails like success."},{"words":["people","work","sitting","paid","people","work","standing"],"answer":"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."},{"words":["i","money","rest","life","unless","i","buy"],"answer":"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."},{"words":["life","having"],"answer":"There must be more to life than having everything."},{"words":["life","just","damned","thing"],"answer":"Life is just one damned thing after another."},{"words":["problem","lies","reconciling","gross","habits","net","income"],"answer":"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."},{"words":["wages","sin","unreported"],"answer":"The wages of sin are unreported."},{"words":["war","series","catastrophes","results","victory"],"answer":"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."},{"words":["smoking","leading","causes","statistics"],"answer":"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."},{"words":["editor","person","employed","newspaper","business","separate","wheat","chaff","chaff","printed"],"answer":"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."},{"words":["dealing","insane","best","method","pretend","sane"],"answer":"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."},{"words":["hollywood","place","place","contract","instead","observation"],"answer":"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."},{"words":["television","proved","people","look"],"answer":"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."},{"words":["ninety","percent","crap"],"answer":"Ninety percent of everything is crap."},{"words":["phone","calls","obscene"],"answer":"All phone calls are obscene."},{"words":["night","i","dreamed","i","ate","tenpound","marshmallow","i","woke","pillow","gone"],"answer":"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone."},{"words":["i","rock","garden","week","died"],"answer":"I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died."},{"words":["machine","work","fifty","ordinary","men","machine","work","extraordinary","man"],"answer":"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."},{"words":["nice","guys","finish","sleep"],"answer":"Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in."},{"words":["i","shot","arrow","air","stuck"],"answer":"I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck."},{"words":["goes","away"],"answer":"Nothing ever goes away."},{"words":["god","help","help"],"answer":"God help those who do not help themselves."},{"words":["conducive","peace","mind","having","opinions"],"answer":"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."},{"words":["easier","forgive","enemy","forgive","friend"],"answer":"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."},{"words":["i","think","good","idea"],"answer":"I think it would be a good idea."},{"words":["thing","said","scruple","copy"],"answer":"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."},{"words":["right","heard","does","automatically","include","right","taken","seriously"],"answer":"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."},{"words":["say","god","think","somewhat","recluse"],"answer":"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."},{"words":["reality","rise"],"answer":"Reality is something you rise above."},{"words":["reality","leading","cause","stress","touch"],"answer":"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."},{"words":["purpose","life","fight","maturity"],"answer":"The purpose of life is to fight maturity."},{"words":["life","moderately","good","play","badly","written","act"],"answer":"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."},{"words":["possible","meaning","finite","world","given","waist","shirt","size"],"answer":"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?"},{"words":["operationally","god","beginning","resemble","ruler","fading","smile","cosmic","cheshire","cat"],"answer":"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat."},{"words":["life","bitch","puppies"],"answer":"Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies."},{"words":["i","depended","blindness","strangers"],"answer":"I have often depended on the blindness of strangers."},{"words":["mother","buried","husbands","just","napping"],"answer":"My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping."},{"words":["i","read","evils","drinking","i","gave","reading"],"answer":"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."},{"words":["i","envy","people","drink","blame"],"answer":"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."},{"words":["children","foreigners"],"answer":"Children are all foreigners."},{"words":["secret","eternal","youth","arrested","development"],"answer":"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development."},{"words":["best","policy","speak","truthunless","course","exceptionally","good","liar"],"answer":"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."},{"words":["i","vegetarian","i","started","leaning","sunlight"],"answer":"I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight."},{"words":["preserving","health","severe","rule","worrisome","malady"],"answer":"Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady."},{"words":["entire","economy","western","world","built","things","cause","cancer"],"answer":"The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer."},{"words":["i","told","doctor","i","broke","leg","places","told","quit","going","places"],"answer":"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."},{"words":["certainly","strange","names","diseases"],"answer":"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."},{"words":["greater","sense","intellectual","degradation","interview","doctor","human","experience"],"answer":"One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."},{"words":["impossible","enjoy","idling","thoroughly","unless","plenty","work"],"answer":"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."},{"words":["i","look","forward","continued","immaturity","followed","death"],"answer":"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."},{"words":["i","die","beliefs","i","wrong"],"answer":"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."},{"words":["i","think","pleasurable","life","devoted","pleasure"],"answer":"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."},{"words":["living","vacuum","sucks"],"answer":"Living in a vacuum sucks."},{"words":["architecture","art","waste","space"],"answer":"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."},{"words":["common","delusion","make","things","better","talking"],"answer":"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."},{"words":["blame","life"],"answer":"Blame someone else and get on with your life."},{"words":["inclined","believe","know","deceived"],"answer":"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."},{"words":["i","tend","live","past","life"],"answer":"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."},{"words":["forfeit","threefourths","order","like","people"],"answer":"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."},{"words":["fashion","goes","year"],"answer":"Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other."},{"words":["crisis","week","schedule"],"answer":"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."},{"words":["brass","bands","place","","outdoors","miles","away"],"answer":"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away."},{"words":["great","thing","television","important","happens","world","day","night","change","channel"],"answer":"The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel."},{"words":["game","football","called","genius","genius","somebody","like","norman","einstein"],"answer":"Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein."},{"words":["anybody","watches","games","football","row","declared","brain","dead"],"answer":"Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead."},{"words":["chess","elaborate","waste","human","intelligence","outside","advertising","agency"],"answer":"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."},{"words":["paid","jobs","absorb","degrade","mind"],"answer":"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."},{"words":["live","age","pizza","gets","home","police"],"answer":"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."},{"words":["i","detest","lifeinsurance","agents","argue","i","shall","day","die"],"answer":"I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."},{"words":["easiest","way","children","learn","money"],"answer":"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."},{"words":["monument","dedicated","memory","committee"],"answer":"There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee."},{"words":["expert","person","mistakes","narrow","field"],"answer":"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."},{"words":["nation","ridicules","nations","right"],"answer":"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."},{"words":["intermediate","stage","socialism","capitalism","alcoholism"],"answer":"The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism."},{"words":["i","believe","government","evil","trying","improve","largely","waste","time"],"answer":"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."},{"words":["reason","senators","state","designated","driver"],"answer":"The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver."},{"words":["food","important","balanced","diet"],"answer":"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."},{"words":["great","thing","democracy","gives","voter","chance","stupid"],"answer":"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."},{"words":["say","silent"],"answer":"Of those who say nothing, few are silent."},{"words":["attribute","malice","adequately","explained","stupidity"],"answer":"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."},{"words":["war","nice"],"answer":"War is not nice."},{"words":["shake","hands","clenched","fist"],"answer":"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."},{"words":["author","fool","content","boring","lives","insists","boring","future","generations"],"answer":"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."},{"words":["time","illusion","lunchtime","doubly"],"answer":"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."},{"words":["capable","getting","president","account","allowed","job"],"answer":"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."},{"words":["human","beings","unique","having","ability","learn","experience","remarkable","apparent","disinclination"],"answer":"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."},{"words":["difference","right","word","right","word","difference","lightning","lightning","bug"],"answer":"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."},{"words":["beginning","universe","created","lot","people","angry","widely","regarded","bad","idea"],"answer":"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."},{"words":["theory","states","discovers","exactly","universe","instantly","disappear","replaced","bizarre","inexplicable","theory","states","happened"],"answer":"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."},{"words":["creator","universe","works","mysterious","ways","uses","base","counting","likes","round","numbers"],"answer":"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."},{"words":["civilization","distance","man","placed","excreta"],"answer":"Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta."},{"words":["houston","tranquility","base","eagle","landed"],"answer":"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed."},{"words":["float","like","butterfly","sting","like","bee"],"answer":"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."},{"words":["man","views","world","50","did","20","wasted","30","years","life"],"answer":"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."},{"words":["good","morning","exercise","research","scientist","discard","pet","hypothesis","day","breakfast","keeps","young"],"answer":"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."},{"words":["book","kill","time","like","better","dead"],"answer":"It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead."},{"words":["good","people","sleep","better","night","bad","people","course","bad","people","enjoy","waking","hours"],"answer":"The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more."},{"words":["i","took","speedreading","course","read","war","peace","minutes","involves","russia"],"answer":"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."},{"words":["time","history","mankind","faces","crossroads","path","leads","despair","utter","hopelessness","total","extinction","let","pray","wisdom","choose","correctly"],"answer":"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."},{"words":["interestingly","according","modern","astronomers","space","finite","comforting","thoughtparticularly","people","remember","left","things"],"answer":"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought---particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things."},{"words":["lives","improve","chances","","difficult","risk","honest"],"answer":"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."},{"words":["make","living","makes","life"],"answer":"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."},{"words":["fundamental","rules","roboticsone","robot","injure","human","inaction","allow","human","come","harmtwoa","robot","obey","orders","given","human","beings","orders","conflict","lawthree","robot","protect","existence","long","protection","does","conflict","second","laws"],"answer":"The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws."},{"words":["ability","delude","important","survival","tool"],"answer":"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool."},{"words":["white","people","strange","think","primitive","child","parents"],"answer":"You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents."},{"words":["greatest","pleasure","life","doing","people","say"],"answer":"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."},{"words":["television","truly","democratic","culture","","culture","available","everybody","entirely","governed","people","want","terrifying","thing","people","want"],"answer":"Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."},{"words":["consider","postage","stamp","usefulness","consists","ability","stick","thing","till","gets"],"answer":"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."},{"words":["express","clearly","able","think"],"answer":"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."},{"words":["opposite","correct","statement","false","statement","opposite","profound","truth","profound","truth"],"answer":"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. 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If you want time you must make it."},{"words":["honest","politician","bought","stay","bought"],"answer":"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."},{"words":["far","life","depends","tender","young","compassionate","aged","sympathetic","striving","tolerant","weak","strong","someday","life"],"answer":"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."},{"words":["rest","peace","mistake","shall","repeated"],"answer":"Rest in peace. 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We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about."},{"words":["staked","future","american","civilization","power","government","far","staked","future","political","institutions","capacity","mankind","selfgovernment","capacity","govern","control","sustain","according","commandments","god"],"answer":"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."},{"words":["","religion","","basis","foundation","government","","man","considered","member","civil","society","considered","subject","governor","universe"],"answer":"... Religion ... 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It is wholly inadequate for any other."},{"words":["facts","distort"],"answer":"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please"},{"words":["choose","decide","choice"],"answer":"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."},{"words":["history","kind","i","intend","write"],"answer":"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."},{"words":["dog","look","cat","look","pig","eye","eye","know","equal"],"answer":"A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal."},{"words":["unexamined","life","worth","living","human"],"answer":"The unexamined life is not worth living to a human."},{"words":["love","like","wild","rose","beautiful","calm","willing","draw","blood","defense"],"answer":"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."},{"words":["lack","money","obstacle","lack","idea","obstacle"],"answer":"Lack of money is no obstacle. 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Even the demons believe that - and shudder."},{"words":["rem","tene","verba","sequnturbr","subject","words","follow"],"answer":"Rem tene, verba sequntur<br> (Keep to the subject, and the words will follow)"},{"words":["usa","today","come","new","survey","","apparently","people","make","75","population"],"answer":"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population."},{"words":["way","discovering","limits","possible","venture","little","way","past","impossible"],"answer":"But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."},{"words":["procrastination","art","keeping","yesterday"],"answer":"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."},{"words":["world","power","","power",""],"answer":"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"},{"words":["mistake","suppose","god","chiefly","concerned","religion"],"answer":"It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion."},{"words":["popular","religion","necessary","superstition","enslave","philosohpy"],"answer":"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy."},{"words":["doubt","greatest","injury","basing","morals","myth","sooner","later","myth","recognized","disappears","morality","loses","foundation","built"],"answer":"Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built."},{"words":["churches","learn","humility","teach"],"answer":"The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it."},{"words":["pluralitas","non","ponenda","est","sine","necessitate"],"answer":"Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate"},{"words":["life","like","icecream","cone","lick","day","time"],"answer":"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."},{"words":["govern","country","246","different","kinds","cheese"],"answer":"How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?"},{"words":["bad","people","know","run","country","busy","driving","taxi","cabs","cutting","hair"],"answer":"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."},{"words":["splendid","repertoire","500","words","does","insist","using","150"],"answer":"He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?"},{"words":["husband","i","feed","poisonbr","wife","madam","i"],"answer":"\"If you were my husband, i would feed you poison.\"<br> \"If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!"},{"words":["i","plenty","exercise","carrying","coffins","friends","exercise"],"answer":"I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise."},{"words":["coolidge","deadbr","tell"],"answer":"\"Coolidge is dead\"<br> \"How could they tell?"},{"words":["i","scumhead"],"answer":"I call that a scumhead."},{"words":["bible","tells","love","neighbors","love","enemies","probably","generally","people"],"answer":"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."},{"words":["thorough","knowledge","bible","worth","college","education"],"answer":"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."},{"words":["abide","principles","taught","bible","country","prospering"],"answer":"If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering."},{"words":["read","bible","know","word","god","key","heart","happiness","duty"],"answer":"When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty."},{"words":["measure","health","adjusted","profoundly","sick","society"],"answer":"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."},{"words":["life","possible","right","life","possible","life","palace","possible","palace","right","life","possible"],"answer":"Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible."},{"words":["little","flesh","little","breath","reason","rule",""],"answer":"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself."},{"words":["refrain","imitation","best","revenge"],"answer":"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."},{"words":["stand","","setup"],"answer":"To stand up -- or be setup?"},{"words":["man","does","sin","commission","ommission"],"answer":"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission."},{"words":["succeed","world","stupid","wellmannered"],"answer":"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."},{"words":["candour","affected","dagger","concealed"],"answer":"A candour affected is a dagger concealed."},{"words":["understand","unix","condemned","reinvent","","badly"],"answer":"Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly."},{"words":["i","believe","sex","beautiful","natural","wholesome","things","money","buy"],"answer":"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."},{"words":["politics","exact","science"],"answer":"Politics is no exact science."},{"words":["christianity","morality","religion","come","contact","reality","point"],"answer":"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."},{"words":["faith","wanting","know","true"],"answer":"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."},{"words":["doubt","use","brute","force"],"answer":"When in doubt, use brute force"},{"words":["maybe","i","screwed"],"answer":"Maybe I should have screwed up."},{"words":["sccs","sourcecode","motel","","code","checks","checks"],"answer":"SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out."},{"words":["i","know"],"answer":"I know nothing."},{"words":["suburbia","developer","bulldozes","trees","names","streets"],"answer":"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."},{"words":["just","think","","ibm","dec","room","","did","makes","feel","warm","inside"],"answer":"Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside."},{"words":["want","goto","best","way"],"answer":"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."},{"words":["oh","tangled","webs","weave","practice","deceive"],"answer":"Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive."},{"words":["world","sin","sorrow","thankful","i","rejoice","i","republican"],"answer":"In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."},{"words":["language","correct","said","meant","said","meant","remains","undone","remains","undone","morals","art","deteriorate","justice","goes","astray","people","stand","helpless","confusion","arbitrariness","said","matters"],"answer":"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything."},{"words":["got","book","collection","garden","wants"],"answer":"Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing."},{"words":["i","think","innumerable","gods","earth","god","little","tribal","god","awful","mess","certainly","forces","operating","trough","human","conciousness","control","events"],"answer":"I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events."},{"words":["god","immemorial","refuge","incompetent","thehelpless","miserable","sanctuary","arms","kind","superiority","soothing","macerated","egos","set","betters"],"answer":"God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters."},{"words":["trapped","like","trap","trap"],"answer":"Trapped, like a trap in a trap."},{"words":["inherent","vice","capitalism","unequal","sharing","blessings","inherent","virtue","socialism","equal","sharing","misery"],"answer":"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."},{"words":["gratitude","merely","secret","hope","favors"],"answer":"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."},{"words":["evangelical","groups","world","atheists","vegetarians","especially","knowledgeable","intelligent","individuals","groups"],"answer":"The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups."},{"words":["meddle","affairs","wizards","subtle","quick","anger"],"answer":"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."},{"words":["know","hungerbr","love","heartbr","light","burn","eyesbr","br","friendbr","sea","rock","gentlybr","moon","light","waybr","till","wind","sets","free"],"answer":"May you never know hunger<br> May you love with a full heart<br> The light burn in your eyes<br> <br> May the fire be your friend<br> And the sea rock you gently<br> May the moon light your way<br> Till the wind sets you free"},{"words":["peasants","asturias","believe","litter","wolves","pup","killed","mother","fear","growing","devour","little","ones"],"answer":"The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones."},{"words":["truth","stranger","fiction"],"answer":"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."},{"words":["truth","beautiful","doubt","lies"],"answer":"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."},{"words":["cluttered","desk","signs","cluttered","mind","desk","sign"],"answer":"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"},{"words":["mind","forever","voyaging","strange","seas","thought"],"answer":"A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone."},{"words":["ignorance","king","prosper","abdication"],"answer":"Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication."},{"words":["cult","religion","political","power"],"answer":"A cult is a religion with no political power."},{"words":["bibles","manmade"],"answer":"All Bibles are man-made."},{"words":["laugh","win","respect","intelligent","people","affection","children","earn","appreciation","honest","critics","endure","betrayal","false","friends","appreciate","beauty","best","leave","world","bit","better","healthy","child","garden","patch","redeemed","social","condition","know","life","breathed","easier","lived","succeeded"],"answer":"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."},{"words":["conservative","20","heartless","liberal","60","plain","idiocy"],"answer":"To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy."},{"words":["thought","does","man","kill","kills","food","food","frequently","beverage"],"answer":"Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage."},{"words":["plus","death","things","easily","lying"],"answer":"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."},{"words":["day","life","doebr","br","unbearably","lovely","music","heard","curtain","rises","woods","summer","afternoon","fawn","dances","nibbles","slowly","leaves","drifts","lazily","soft","foliage","soon","starts","coughing","drops","dead"],"answer":"A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE<br> <br> Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead."},{"words":["doing","abominations","law","particularly","abominations","wearing","lobster","bib"],"answer":"Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib."},{"words":["whosoever","shall","fall","sword","famine","shall","fall","pestilence","bother","shaving"],"answer":"Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?"},{"words":["better","lover","loved","cholesterol","love","course","i","refer","romantic","love","","love","man","woman","mother","child","boy","dog","headwaiters"],"answer":"Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters."},{"words":["i","did","hell","i","just","told","truth","thought","hell"],"answer":"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell."},{"words":["internet","big","powerful","pointless","people","complete","substitute","life"],"answer":"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."},{"words":["universe","stories","atoms"],"answer":"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."},{"words":["lexicon","political","class","word","sacrifice","means","citizens","supposed","mail","income","washington","political","class","sacrifice","pleasure","spending"],"answer":"...in the lexicon of the political class, the word \"sacrifice\" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."},{"words":["society","scorns","excellence","plumbing","humble","activity","tolerates","shoddiness","philosophy","exalted","activity","good","plumbing","good","philosophyneither","pipes","theories","hold","water"],"answer":"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."},{"words":["presidential","opponents","certifiable","idiots"],"answer":"Many, if not all, of my presidential opponents are certifiable idiots."},{"words":["half","american","people","read","newspaper","half","voted","president","hopes","half"],"answer":"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."},{"words":["food","stamps","stopped","effective","march","1992","received","notice","passed","away","god","bless","reapply","change","circumstances"],"answer":"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."},{"words":["believe","wanted","win","worst","way"],"answer":"We believe he wanted to win in the worst way."},{"words":["socialist","antifamily","political","movement","encourages","women","leave","husbands","kill","children","practice","witchcraft","destroy","capitalism","lesbians"],"answer":"It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."},{"words":["shut","sit"],"answer":"Would you please shut up and sit down!"},{"words":["joyfully","marches","music","rank","file","earned","contempt","given","large","brain","mistake","spinal","cord","fully","suffice","disgrace","civilization","away","heroism","command","senseless","brutality","deplorable","patriotism","violently","i","hate","despicable","ignoble","war","i","torn","shreds","base","action","conviction","killing","cloak","war","act","murder"],"answer":"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."},{"words":["best","way","predict","future","invent"],"answer":"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."},{"words":["i","received","nobel","prize","big","lump","sum","money","i","seen","i","easiest","way","drop","hot","potato","invest","buy","shares","i","knew","world","war","ii","coming","i","afraid","i","shares","rise","case","war","i","wish","war","i","asked","agent","buy","shares","event","war","did","i","lost","money","saved","soul"],"answer":"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul."},{"words":["time","prevents","happening"],"answer":"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."},{"words":["i","lived","thirty","years","planet","i","hear","syllable","valuable","earnest","advice","seniors"],"answer":"I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."},{"words":["seek","fresher","founts","afar","just","drop","bucket"],"answer":"Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop you bucket where you are."},{"words":["pope","divisions","_he_","got",""],"answer":"The Pope! How many divisions has _he_ got ?"},{"words":["patriotism","refuge","scoundrel"],"answer":"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."},{"words":["i","say","i","believe","i","know","i","experience","gripped","stronger","people","god"],"answer":"I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God."},{"words":["old","saw","early","bird","just","proves","worm","stayed","bed"],"answer":"That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed."},{"words":["modern","definition","racist","winning","argument","liberal"],"answer":"The modern definition of \"racist\" is \"someone who is winning an argument with a liberal"},{"words":["advantages","disorderly","constantly","making","exciting","discoveries"],"answer":"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."},{"words":["people","know","","i","happen","famous"],"answer":"Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous."},{"words":["remember","past","condemned","repeat"],"answer":"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."},{"words":["history","science","speculative","marvelous","hiatory","makes","proud","human"],"answer":"The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being."},{"words":["ability","quote","serviceable","substitute","wit"],"answer":"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."},{"words":["i","oneandtwentybr","i","heard","wise","man","saybr","pounds","crowns","guineasbr","heart","awaybr","br","pearls","away","rubiesbr","fancy","freebr","i","oneandtwentybr","use","talk"],"answer":"When I was one-and-twenty,<br> I heard a wise man say,<br> Give pounds and crowns and guineas,<br> But not your heart away.\"<br> <br> Give pearls away and rubies,<br> But keep your fancy free.\"<br> But I was one-and-twenty,<br> No use to talk to me."},{"words":["smell","smoke","like","smell","failure","life"],"answer":"You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life."},{"words":["survival","machines","","robot","vehicles","blindly","programmed","preserve","selfish","molecules","known","genes"],"answer":"\"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."},{"words":["dispensed","generosity","order","practice","charity"],"answer":"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."},{"words":["personally","i","look","forward","computer","program","winning","world","chess","championship","humanity","needs","lesson","humility"],"answer":"Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. 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It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody."},{"words":["","nature","sweet","rains","fall","just","unjust","alike","clefts","rocks","i","hide","secret","valleys","silence","i","weep","undetected","hang","night","stars","i","walk","abroad","darkness","stumbling","send","wind","footprints","track","hurt","cleanse","great","waters","bitter","herbs","make"],"answer":"... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole."},{"words":["power","tends","corrupt","absolute","power","corrupts","absolutely"],"answer":"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."},{"words":["far","laws","mathematics","refer","reality","certain","far","certain","refer","reality"],"answer":"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."},{"words":["love","god","lets","grab","slushie"],"answer":"Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie."},{"words":["discovery","strange","society","curiously","refreshing","thing","realize","new","trades","world","like","looking","ship","plough","man","feel","feel","childhood","world"],"answer":"The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world."},{"words":["money","like","muck","good","spread"],"answer":"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."},{"words":["beeen","said","love","money","root","evil","want","money","quite","truly"],"answer":"It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."},{"words":["alexander","hamilton","started","treasury","","closest","country"],"answer":"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."},{"words":["original","discovery","obvious"],"answer":"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."},{"words":["i","belong","organized","party","i","democrat"],"answer":"I belong to no organized party. 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Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven."},{"words":["work","seriously","seriously","happens","work","seriously"],"answer":"Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously."},{"words":["wizard","fact","magicians","reticent","admit","let","discuss","prospective","clients","fact","remains","certain","objects","people","reason","completely","immune","direct","magical","spell","group","beings","magician","learns","subtleties","using","indirect","spells","does","harm","dealing","matters","carry","large","club","near","person","times"],"answer":"A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club near your person at all times."},{"words":["norse","mythology","loki","originally","rest","gods","helping","twice","using","particularly","nast","forms","trickery","cunning","negotiator","talent","technicalities","sort","norse","equivalent","lawyer","doubt","reason","tied","pit","dripping","acidic","venom"],"answer":"In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. 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How tasteless and ill-bred it is!"},{"words":["little","know","age","live","think","honey","sweeter","cash","hand"],"answer":"How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand."},{"words":["expedient","forget"],"answer":"It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are."},{"words":["glory","otustripping","donkeys"],"answer":"There is no glory in otustripping donkeys."},{"words":["school","hard","knocks","accelerated","curriculum"],"answer":"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum."},{"words":["absurd","philosopher","said"],"answer":"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."},{"words":["man","belly","classics","enemy","human","race"],"answer":"A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race."},{"words":["jesus","parish","demogogue"],"answer":"(Of Jesus): \"A parish demogogue.\""},{"words":["despairs","event","coward","holds","hope","human","condition","fool"],"answer":"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."},{"words":["discovery","consists","seeing","everybody","seen","thinking","thought"],"answer":"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."},{"words":["great","people","think","thinking","merely","rearranging","prejudices"],"answer":"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."},{"words":["let","short","act","parliament","passed","placing","street","musicians","outside","protection","law","citizen","assail","stones","sticks","knives","pistols","bombs","incurring","penalties"],"answer":"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties."},{"words":["bachelor","selfish","undeserving","guy","cheated","woman","divorce"],"answer":"A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce."},{"words":["question","money","religion"],"answer":"When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion."},{"words":["thanksgiving","day","america","families","sit","dinner","moment","","halftime"],"answer":"On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime."},{"words":["gratitude","merely","secret","hope","favors"],"answer":"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."},{"words":["pilgrim","fathers","landed","shores","america","fell","knees","fell","aborigines"],"answer":"The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. 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She must be found and stopped."},{"words":["quite","lawful","catholic","woman","avoid","pregnancy","resort","mathematics","forbidden","resort","physics","chemistry"],"answer":"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."},{"words":["contraceptives","used","conceivable","occasion"],"answer":"Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion."},{"words":["life","competition","criminal","victim"],"answer":"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."},{"words":["life","goddamned","stinking","treacherous","game","ninetynine","men","thousand","bastards"],"answer":"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards."},{"words":["true","life","damn","thing","damn","thing"],"answer":"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over."},{"words":["life","dreams","revenge"],"answer":"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."},{"words":["men","women","women","men","work"],"answer":"Men and women, women and men. It will never work."},{"words":["men","wanted","marry"],"answer":"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."},{"words":["women","seek","equal","men","lack","ambition"],"answer":"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."},{"words":["man","animal","blushes","","needs"],"answer":"Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to."},{"words":["happiness","imaginary","condition","attributed","living","dead","usually","attributed","adults","children","children","adults"],"answer":"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."},{"words":["i","know","poetry","indispensable","i","say"],"answer":"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say."},{"words":["holy","roman","empire","holy","roman","empire"],"answer":"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire."},{"words":["choose","sanity","big","house","mad","mothers"],"answer":"What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers."},{"words":["said","democracy","worst","form","government","tried"],"answer":"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."},{"words":["democracy","allowed","vote","candidate","dislike"],"answer":"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."},{"words":["ninety","percent","politicians","percent","bad","reputation"],"answer":"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."},{"words":["power","accurate","observation","commonly","called","cynicism","got"],"answer":"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."},{"words":["jp","morgan","asked","stock","market","replied"],"answer":"J.P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,"},{"words":["long","war","regarded","wicked","fascination","looked","vulgar","cease","popular"],"answer":"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."},{"words":["walking","women","want","southern","cross","night","set","aside","sock","tie","laces","tight","yes","mournful","melody","echoes","heads","beat","march","believing","bach","dead"],"answer":"Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead."},{"words":["old","age","unexpected","things","happen","man"],"answer":"Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man."},{"words":["people","born","mediocre","people","achieve","mediocrity","people","mediocrity","thrust"],"answer":"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them."},{"words":["democracy","art","running","circus","monkey","cage"],"answer":"Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage."},{"words":["democracy","allowed","vote","candidate","dislike"],"answer":"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."},{"words":["law","school","hard","come","lawyers"],"answer":"If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?"},{"words":["missionaries","going","reform","world","wants"],"answer":"Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not."},{"words":["i","think","pleasurable","life","devoted","pleasure"],"answer":"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."},{"words":["i","forgive","alfred","nobel","having","invented","dynamite","fiend","human","form","invented","nobel","prize"],"answer":"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."},{"words":["dog","man","napoleon","constant","popularity","dogs"],"answer":"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."},{"words":["gaiety","outstanding","feature","soviet","union"],"answer":"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union."},{"words":["mothers","fonder","fathers","children","certain"],"answer":"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."},{"words":["gods","fond","joke"],"answer":"The gods too are fond of a joke"},{"words":["wise","man","invented","god"],"answer":"He was a wise man who invented God."},{"words":["wit","educated","insolence"],"answer":"Wit is educated insolence."},{"words":["let","praise","ancient","times","i","glad","i","born"],"answer":"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these"},{"words":["clothes","make","man","naked","people","little","influence","society"],"answer":"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."},{"words":["god","tangential","point","zero","infinity"],"answer":"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."},{"words":["provision","constitution","giving","warmaking","power","congress","dictated","i","understand","following","reasons","kings","involving","impoverishing","people","wars","pretending","generally","good","people","object","convention","understood","oppressive","kingly","oppressions","resolved","frame","constitution","man","hold","power","bringing","oppression"],"answer":"The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us."},{"words":["laugh","honor","shocked","traitors","midst"],"answer":"We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."},{"words":["live","friends","defend"],"answer":"Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to."},{"words":["freedom","just","chaos","better","lighting"],"answer":"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting."},{"words":["said","lot","said"],"answer":"After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done."},{"words":["people","forget","fast","did","job","","remember","did"],"answer":"People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it."},{"words":["cigar","just","cigar"],"answer":"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."},{"words":["men","born","mediocre","men","achieve","mediocrity","men","mediocrity","thrust"],"answer":"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."},{"words":["americans","live","nation","medicalcare","second","world","unless","count","maybe","25","30","little","scuzzball","countries","like","scotland","vaporize","seconds","felt","like"],"answer":"We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it."},{"words":["genius","americans","make","clearcut","stupid","moves","complicated","stupid","moves","make","wonder","possibility","missing"],"answer":"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing."},{"words":["i","like","pigs","dogs","look","cats","look","pigs","treat","equals"],"answer":"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."},{"words":["say","society","says","god","dead","elvis","alive"],"answer":"What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?"},{"words":["courage","scared","death","","saddling"],"answer":"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."},{"words":["man","said","universe","sir","i","existbr","replied","universebr","fact","created","sense","obligation"],"answer":"A man said to the Universe: \"Sir, I exist!\"<br> \"However,\" replied the Universe,<br> \"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.\""},{"words":["i","think","surest","sign","intelligent","life","exists","universe","tried","contact"],"answer":"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."},{"words":["i","know","god","forbid","i"],"answer":"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."},{"words":["neurosis","inability","tolerate","ambiguity"],"answer":"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."},{"words":["war","ugly","thing","ugliest","things","decayed","degraded","state","moral","patriotic","feeling","thinks","worth","war","worse","person","willing","fight","important","personal","safety","miserable","creature","chance","free","unless","kept","exertions","better","men"],"answer":"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."},{"words":["duty","sublimest","word","english","language","duty","things","wish"],"answer":"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."},{"words":["i","assured","knowing","american","acquaintance","london","young","healthy","child","nursed","year","old","delicious","nourishing","wholesome","food","stewed","roasted","baked","boiled","i","make","doubt","equally","serve","fricassee","ragout"],"answer":"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout."},{"words":["occasionally","use","arrow","notation","unless","danger","confusion"],"answer":"We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion."},{"words":["face","mirror","mind","eyes","speaking","confess","secrets","heart"],"answer":"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."},{"words":["men","dream","equally","dream","night","dusty","recesses","minds","wake","day","vanity","dreamers","day","dangerous","men","act","dream","open","eyes","make","possible"],"answer":"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."},{"words":["democracy","gives","man","right","oppressor"],"answer":"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."},{"words":["born","princes","civilizing","process","makes","frogs"],"answer":"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."},{"words":["read","lipsno","new","taxes"],"answer":"Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES!"},{"words":["best","way","cheer","try","cheer"],"answer":"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."},{"words":["art","medicine","consists","amusing","patient","nature","cures","disease"],"answer":"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."},{"words":["witty","saying","proves"],"answer":"A witty saying proves nothing."},{"words":["effects","acid","enchanced","long","term","memory","decreased","short","term","memory","i","forget"],"answer":"There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third."},{"words":["discussion","exchange","knowledge","argument","exchange","ignorance"],"answer":"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance."},{"words":["men","make","history","way","periods","leadership","society","stands","progress","occurs","courageous","skillful","leaders","seize","opportunity","change","things","better"],"answer":"Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."},{"words":["santa","claus","right","idea","visit","year"],"answer":"Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit everyone once a year."},{"words":["government","run","liars","say","believed"],"answer":"Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed."},{"words":["blessed","meek","shall","inherit","feet","earth"],"answer":"Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth."},{"words":["forget","art","form","propaganda","form","truth"],"answer":"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."},{"words":["learn","speak","correct","english","going","speak"],"answer":"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"},{"words":["come","quickly","i","tasting","stars"],"answer":"Come quickly, I am tasting stars!"},{"words":["play","leapfrog","unicorn"],"answer":"Never play leapfrog with a unicorn."},{"words":["people","far","goodhumored","speeding","parting","guests","meeting"],"answer":"People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them."},{"words":["holidays","expensive","trial","strength","satisfaction","comes","survival"],"answer":"Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival."},{"words":["gifts","like","hooks"],"answer":"Gifts are like hooks."},{"words":["fight","world","world"],"answer":"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."},{"words":["puritanism","haunting","fear","happy"],"answer":"Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."},{"words":["better","quotable","honest"],"answer":"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."},{"words":["good","resolutions","simply","checks","men","draw","bank","account"],"answer":"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."},{"words":["california","goes","therapist","therapist","therapist","going","therapist"],"answer":"In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist."},{"words":["bore","man","unintentionally","rude"],"answer":"Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude."},{"words":["new","york","city","world","deliberately","run","sidewalk","pedestrian"],"answer":"New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian."},{"words":["confession","good","soul","sense","tweed","coat","good","dandruff","","palliative","remedy"],"answer":"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy."},{"words":["honest","criticism","hard","particularly","relative","friend","acquaintance","stranger"],"answer":"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."},{"words":["experience","gives","mistakes"],"answer":"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."},{"words":["i","knew","virgin"],"answer":"I knew her before she was a virgin."},{"words":["eventually","come","realize","chastity","virtue","malnutrition"],"answer":"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition."},{"words":["celibacy","hereditary"],"answer":"Celibacy is not hereditary."},{"words":["virginity","lies","beholder"],"answer":"Virginity is in the lies of the beholder."},{"words":["aliter","catuli","longe","olent","aliter","suesbr","puppies","pigs","different","smell"],"answer":"Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues.<br> (\"Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.\")"},{"words":["small","girl","amanda","hid","ticking","clock","old","rotten","tree","trunk","drove","woodpeckers","crazy","ignoring","tasty","bugs","just","beat","brains","trying","clock","years","later","amanda","used","woodpecker","experiment","model","understanding","capitalism","communism","christianity","systems","traffic","future","rewards","present","realities"],"answer":"When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities."},{"words":["torture","life","society","obliging","offer","light","order","oblige","i","fish","cigarette","pocket"],"answer":"What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket."},{"words":["i","study","religions","i","convinced","man","worshipped"],"answer":"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself"},{"words":["justice","incedental","law","order"],"answer":"Justice is incedental to law and order."},{"words":["reading","musses","mind"],"answer":"Reading musses up my mind."},{"words":["gun","warship","launched","rocket","fired","signifies","final","sense","theft","hunger","fed","cold","clothed","world","arms","spending","money","spending","sweat","laborers","genius","scientists","hopes","children","way","life","true","sense","clouds","war","humanity","hanging","cross","iron"],"answer":"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."},{"words":["sane","person","live","world","crazy"],"answer":"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"},{"words":["ruled","mind","king","body","slave"],"answer":"If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave."},{"words":["good","manners","open","doors","best","education"],"answer":"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."},{"words":["matter","poor","poverty","matter","rich","uselessness"],"answer":"What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness."},{"words":["clergyman","feels","called","live","working","expense","rascals","work","live"],"answer":"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live."},{"words":["true","genius","appears","world","know","sign","dunces","confederacy"],"answer":"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."},{"words":["america","pressure","conformity","freedom","choice","choose"],"answer":"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."},{"words":["america","large","friendly","dog","small","room","time","wags","tail","knocks","chair"],"answer":"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."},{"words":["united","states","like","guy","party","gives","cocaine","everybody","likes"],"answer":"The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him."},{"words":["i","smitten","i","stay","smut"],"answer":"When I get smitten, I stay smut."},{"words":["english","think","incompetence","thing","sincerity"],"answer":"The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity."},{"words":["war","biggest","ego","trip","time"],"answer":"War is the biggest ego trip of all time."},{"words":["men","like","steel","lose","temper","lose","worth"],"answer":"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth."},{"words":["hatred","far","longest","pleasure","men","love","haste","detest","leisure"],"answer":"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure."},{"words":["main","thing","i","exist","i","apart","let","likes","best","order","things","way","thinking","i","meant","hell","perfect","worlds","i","i","exist","impudent","argufier","exist"],"answer":"The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all."},{"words":["life","set","pictures","brain","difference","betwixt","born","real","things","born","inward","dreamings","cause","value"],"answer":"...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other.\""},{"words":["people","agree","i","feel","i","wrong"],"answer":"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."},{"words":["egotism","anesthetic","given","kindly","nature","relieve","pain","damned","fool"],"answer":"Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool."},{"words":["monday","mornings","i","dedicated","proposition","men","created","jerks"],"answer":"On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks."},{"words":["chastity","takes","toll","produces","pimples","sex","laws"],"answer":"Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws."},{"words":["verb","meaning","believe","falsely","significant","person","present","indicative"],"answer":"If there were a verb meaning \"to believe falsely,\" it would not have any significant first person, present indicative."},{"words":["men","pregnant","abortion","sacrament"],"answer":"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."},{"words":["responsiblity","unique","concept","reside","inhere","single","individual","share","portion","diminished","delegate","disclaim","divest"],"answer":"Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it."},{"words":["man","fallen","love","girl","light","dim","chosen","suit"],"answer":"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it."},{"words":["casual","stroll","lunatic","asylum","shows","faith","does","prove"],"answer":"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."},{"words":["liberal","feels","great","debt","fellow","man","debt","proposes","pay","money"],"answer":"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."},{"words":["superstitions","human","mind","imagined","virginity","virtue"],"answer":"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."},{"words":["wife","i","tried","breakfast","stop","marriage","wrecked"],"answer":"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked."},{"words":["children","essentially","criminal"],"answer":"All children are essentially criminal."},{"words":["child","curly","dimpled","lunatic"],"answer":"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."},{"words":["thank","god","kids","mean"],"answer":"Thank God kids never mean well"},{"words":["better","know","questions","answers"],"answer":"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."},{"words":["lactomangulation","nbr","manhandling","open","spout","milk","carton","badly","resort","using","illegal"],"answer":"Lactomangulation, n.:<br> Manhandling the \"open here\" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the \"illegal\" side."},{"words":["completely","unhappy","failure","best","friend"],"answer":"No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend."},{"words":["loathings","simple","stupidity","oppression","crime","cruelty","soft","music"],"answer":"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."},{"words":["shut","explained"],"answer":"Shut up he explained."},{"words":["perfectly","welldressed","gives","feeling","tranquility","religion","powerless","bestow"],"answer":"Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow."},{"words":["man","fish","eat","day","teach","man","fish","eat","lifetime","teach","man","create","artificial","shortage","fish","eat","steak"],"answer":"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. 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I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."},{"words":["kill","time","injuring","eternity"],"answer":"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."},{"words":["tell","time","injuring","eternity"],"answer":"As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity."},{"words":["eternity","begins","dead","going","time"],"answer":"Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now."},{"words":["notable","socrates","time","old","man","learn","music","dancing","thought","time","spent"],"answer":"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."},{"words":["world","i","felt","strongly","impressed"],"answer":"In a world where there is so much to be done. 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This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."},{"words":["nobel","prize","money","lifebelt","thrown","swimmer","reached","shore","safety"],"answer":"Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety."},{"words":["man","nature","relation","infinity","relation","central","point","infinitely","far","understanding","ends","things","beginnings","impregnably","concealed","impenetrable","secret","equally","incapable","seeing","nothingness","drawn","infinite","engulfed"],"answer":"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed."},{"words":["world","infested","quantity","talk","sense","talk","quantities","use","saying","nation","large","large","use","s","aying","radium","scarce","scarce","evade","quantity","fly","poetry","music","quantity","number","face","rhythms","octaves"],"answer":"Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves."},{"words":["trumpets","sound","important","decisions","life","destiny","known","silently"],"answer":"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."},{"words":["foolish","consistency","hobgoblin","little","minds","adored","little","statesman","philosophers","divines"],"answer":"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines."},{"words":["sacred","integrity","mind"],"answer":"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."},{"words":["los","angeles","understood","mere","city","contrary","1888","commodity","advertised","sold","people","united","states","like","automobiles","cigarettes","mouth","wash"],"answer":"Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash."},{"words":["artificial","city","pumped","forced","draught","inflated","like","balloon","stuffed","rural","humanity","like","goose","cornendeavoring","eat","rapid","avalanche","anthropoids","sunshine","metropolis","heaves","strains","sweats","popeyed","like","young","boa","constrictor","trying","swallow","goat","imparted","urban","character","incoming","population","simple","reason","character","impart","hand","place","manners","culture","general","outlook","huge","country","village"],"answer":"Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village."},{"words":["rot","feeling"],"answer":"You can rot here without feeling it."},{"words":["mount","hollywood","los","angeles","looks","nice","enveloped","haze","changing","colors","actually","spite","healthful","sunshine","ocean","breezes","bad","place","","old","dying","people","born","old","tired","pioneer","parents","victims","america","","curious","wild","poisonous","growths","decadent","religious","cults","fake","science","wildcat","enterprises","aim","quick","profit","doomed","collapse","drag","multitudes","people"],"answer":"From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people."},{"words":["thinking","hell","i","gather","br","brother","shelley","place","br","like","city","london","i","br","live","los","angeles","london","br","thinking","hell","br","like","los","angeles"],"answer":"On thinking about Hell, I gather <br> My brother Shelley found it was a place <br> Much like the city of London. I <br> Who live in Los Angeles and not in London <br> Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be <br> Still more like Los Angeles."},{"words":["south","california","gathered","larges","miscellaneous","assortment","messiahs","sorcerers","saints","seers","known","history","aberrations"],"answer":"In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations."},{"words":["la","needs","cleansing","great","disaster","founding","barricaded","commune"],"answer":"LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune."},{"words":["los","angeles","endlessly","held","extremes","light","dark","","surface","depth","promise","brief","meaning","hovering","edge","significance"],"answer":"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance."},{"words":["time","dead","long","clicked","little","wheels","clock","stops","does","time","come","life"],"answer":"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."},{"words":["i","portrait","dog","i","know","allegorical","paintings","world"],"answer":"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."},{"words":["excellent","beauty","hath","strangeness","proportion"],"answer":"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."},{"words":["affections","like","lightning","tell","strike","till","fallen"],"answer":"The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen"},{"words":["mentioned","cnn","new","prime","number","discovered","recently","times","bigger","previous","record"],"answer":"It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record."},{"words":["water","generally","flows","downhill","area"],"answer":"Water generally flows downhill in this area."},{"words":["invented","invented"],"answer":"Everything that can be invented has been invented."},{"words":["strategy","buying","bottle","fine","wine","lady","dinner","tactics","getting","drink"],"answer":"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it."},{"words":["coffee","plunges","stomachthe","mind","aroused","ideas","pour","forth","like","battalions","grand","army","field","battle","memories","charge","gallopthe","light","cavalry","comparisons","deploys","magnificently","artillery","logic","hurry","train","ammunition","flashes","wit","pop","like","sharpshooters"],"answer":"This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters."},{"words":["unnatural","sexual","act","perform"],"answer":"The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform."},{"words":["morality","herdinstinct","individual"],"answer":"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."},{"words":["man","fish","feed","day","teach","man","fish","feed","lifetime"],"answer":"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. 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Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism."},{"words":["keys","happiness","bad","memory"],"answer":"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."},{"words":["modern","calendars","mar","sweet","simplicity","lives","reminding","day","passes","anniversary","perfectly","uninteresting","event"],"answer":"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."},{"words":["god","gave","memories","roses","december"],"answer":"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December."},{"words":["facility","quotation","covers","absence","original","thought"],"answer":"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."},{"words":["ability","quote","serviceable","substitute","wit"],"answer":"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."},{"words":["confound","said","remarks"],"answer":"Confound those who have said our remarks before us."},{"words":["just","learning","misquote"],"answer":"With just enough of learning to misquote."},{"words":["person","reveals","character","clearly","joke","resents"],"answer":"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."},{"words":["quotation","like","pun","come","unsought","welcomed","propriety","felicity","justifying","intrusion"],"answer":"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion."},{"words":["originator","good","sentence","quoter","i","hate","quotations","tell","know"],"answer":"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."},{"words":["quotations","point","lack","triteness","great","old","authors","act","reverence","quoter","blessing","public","grown","superficial","external"],"answer":"Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external."},{"words":["test","author","merely","number","phrases","pass","current","corner","newspapersbut","number","passages","really","taken","root","younger","minds"],"answer":"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."},{"words":["discussion","adduces","authority","uses","intellect","memory"],"answer":"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory."},{"words":["poetry","language","man","explores","amazement"],"answer":"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."},{"words":["poetry","hold","judgment","soul"],"answer":"Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul."},{"words":["words","sunbeams","condenced","deeper","burn"],"answer":"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn."},{"words":["printing","press","came","poetry","ceased","delight","community","man","amusement","delight"],"answer":"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."},{"words":["adjectives","potbelly","poetry"],"answer":"Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry."},{"words":["commit","poems","pages","sing","i","pray"],"answer":"Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you."},{"words":["merciful","thing","world","","","","inability","human","mind","correlate","contents"],"answer":"The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."},{"words":["knowledge","begins","experience","doubtbut","knowledge","originates","experience","does","arise","experience"],"answer":"That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience."},{"words":["understood","demonstrate","theorem","necessary","advantageous","know","meansa","machine","imagined","assumptions","end","theorems","came","like","legendary","chicago","machine","pigs","alive","come","transformed","hams","sausages","machines","need","mathematician","know","does"],"answer":"Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."},{"words":["fathers","field","pretty","confusing","john","von","neumann","speculated","computers","human","brain","analogies","sufficiently","wild","worthy","medieval","thinker","alan","turing","thought","criteria","settle","question","machines","think","question","know","relevant","question","submarines","swim"],"answer":"The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."},{"words":["economize","agonize"],"answer":"He who will not economize will have to agonize."},{"words":["living","creature","succeeds","getting","footing","life","thousands","millions","perish","enormous","random","scattering","seed","comes","life","does","remind","intelligent","human","design","man","order","shoot","hare","discharge","thousands","guns","great","moor","possible","directions","order","locked","room","buy","thousand","casual","keys","try","order","house","build","town","leave","houses","wind","weather","","assuredly","proceedings","purposeful","conjecture","proceedings","higher","wisdom","unrevealed","reasons","superior","prudence"],"answer":"For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. \"If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.\""},{"words":["reasonable","probability","certainty"],"answer":"A reasonable probability is the only certainty."},{"words":["remember","observe","nature","nature","exposed","method","questioning"],"answer":"We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning."},{"words":["happens","depends","way","observing","fact","observe"],"answer":"What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it."},{"words":["suspicion","universe","queerer","suppose","queerer","suppose"],"answer":"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose."},{"words":["nature","gets","credit","truth","reserved","rose","scent","nightingale","song","sun","radiance","poets","entirely","mistaken","address","lyrics","turn","odes","self","congratulation","excellence","human","mind"],"answer":"Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind."},{"words":["life","said","dream","physical","world","phantasm","i","dream","phatasm","real","using","reason","deceived"],"answer":"Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it."},{"words":["shallow","men","believe","luck","strong","men","believe","cause","effect"],"answer":"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."},{"words":["academic","men","happy","universe","shape","philosophy","goal","matter","giving","frock","coat","mathematical","frock","coat","hand","affirming","universe","resembles","formless","amounts","saying","universe","like","spider","spit"],"answer":"[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit."},{"words":["story","far","beginning","universe","created","lot","people","angry","widely","regarded","bad"],"answer":"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."},{"words":["glorious","garden","wonders","lights","broadway","lucky","unable","read"],"answer":"What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read."},{"words":["fights","monsters","care","lest","monster","gaze","long","abyss","abyss","gazes"],"answer":"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."},{"words":["stay","away","needle","drugs","richard","nixon","dope","worth","shooting"],"answer":"Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting."},{"words":["people","world","seldom","pick","newspaper","people","watching","television","sneer","displeasure","change","channels","glimpse","anchorperson","willfully","uninformed","citizens","rare","emerging","seclusion","serve","juries","trials","great","national","significance","exist"],"answer":"There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist."},{"words":["problem","news","television","comes","words","uttered","hour","news","coverage","printed","page","newspaper","world","understood","page"],"answer":"The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page."},{"words":["knowledge","series","selfconsistent","theories","converges","ideal","view","increasing","ocean","mutually","incompatible","incommensurable","alternatives","single","theory","fairy","tale","myth","collection","forcing","greater","articulation","contributing","process","competition","development","consciousness"],"answer":"Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness."},{"words":["earthly","minds","like","mud","walls","resist","strongest","batteries","somethimes","force","clear","argument","make","impression","stand","firm","enemy","truth","captivate","disturbe"],"answer":"Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them."},{"words":["place","makes","mayberry","look","like","think","tank"],"answer":"This place makes Mayberry look like a think tank."},{"words":["usenet","like","herd","performing","elephants","diarrhea","","massive","difficult","redirect","aweinspiring","entertaining","source","mind","boggling","amounts","excrement","expect"],"answer":"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."},{"words":["i","distinction","speaking","countries","communist","party"],"answer":"I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party."},{"words":["man","boast","illustrious","ancestry","like","potato","","best","ground"],"answer":"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground."},{"words":["skeptic","remains","consolation","thing","superhuman","law","administered","subhuman","inefficiency"],"answer":"For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency."},{"words":["hand","volume","divinity","school","metaphysics","instance","let","ask","does","contain","abstract","reasoning","concerning","quantity","number","does","contain","experimental","reasoning","concerning","matter","fact","existence","commit","flames","contain","sophistry","illusion"],"answer":"If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, \"Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?\" No. \"Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?\" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."},{"words":["idea","incarnation","god","absurd","human","race","think","superior","bees","ants","elephants","unique","relation","maker","","","christians","like","council","frogs","marsh","synod","worms","dunghill","croaking","squeaking","sakes","world","created"],"answer":"The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking \"for our sakes was the world created.\""},{"words":["women","cats","damned","men","dogs","best","learn","live"],"answer":"Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it."},{"words":["wire","telegraph","kind","long","cat","pull","tail","new","york","head","meowing","los","angeles","understand","radio","operates","exactly","way","send","signals","receive","difference","cat"],"answer":"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."},{"words":["toast","lands","butterside","cats","land","feet","happen","strap","toast","cat","drop"],"answer":"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"},{"words":["difficulties","strengthen","mind","labor","does","body"],"answer":"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."},{"words":["mystery","cat","decided","domesticated","animal"],"answer":"The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal"},{"words":["believe","soul","luminous","eyes"],"answer":"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!"},{"words":["cats","principle","does","harm","ask","want"],"answer":"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."},{"words":["zoos","actually","offer","public","return","taxes","spent","form","idle","witless","amusement","compared","visit","penitentiary","state","legislature","session","informing","stimulating","ennobling"],"answer":"All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling."},{"words":["big","corporations","depreciate","possessions","provided","use","business","purposes","example","subscribe","wall","street","journal","businessrelated","newspaper","deduct","cost","house","words","supreme","court","chief","justice","warren","burger","landmark","1979","tax","decision","going","read","paper","outside","rains"],"answer":"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: \"Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?\""},{"words":["taxes","paid","lifetime","average","american","spent","government","second"],"answer":"All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second."},{"words":["wary","strong","drink","make","shoot","tax","collectors","miss"],"answer":"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss."},{"words":["look","play","star","spangled","banner","game","want","pay","income","taxes"],"answer":"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"},{"words":["shot","missed","really","quite","satisfying","income","tax","refund"],"answer":"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."},{"words":["hardest","thing","world","understand","income","tax"],"answer":"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."},{"words":["unquestionably","progress","average","american","pays","twice","taxes","got","wages"],"answer":"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."},{"words":["mathematicians","like","frenchmen","say","translate","language","forthwith","entirely","different"],"answer":"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different."},{"words":["impatient","student","mathematics","science","engineering","irked","having","algebraic","symbolism","thrust","try","week"],"answer":"Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week."},{"words":["man","honestly","fatalist","stoic","fights","fate","desperately","forever","entering","bold","exceptions","rulings","bench","gods","fighting","doubt","makes","human","progress","favors","strong","brave","makes","beauty","lesser","men","try","escape","hopeless","intolerable","world","creating","lovely"],"answer":"Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own."},{"words":["exactly","like","i","trouble","doing"],"answer":"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."},{"words":["difference"],"answer":"There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others."},{"words":["human","nature","weak","bookstore"],"answer":"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"},{"words":["did","time","read","new","book","field","great","polish","anthropologist","bronislaw","malinowski","used","simple","efficient","method","deciding","ones","worth","attention","receiving","new","book","immediately","checked","index","cited","malinowski","compelling","book","malinowski","doubted","subject","book","anthropology"],"answer":"Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more \"Malinowski\" the more compelling the book. No \"Malinowski,\" and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all."},{"words":["book","quotations","","","","complete"],"answer":"A book of quotations . . . can never be complete."},{"words":["things","life","embarrassing","necessity","having","inform","old","friend","just","got","engaged","fiancee"],"answer":"Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee."},{"words":["enemies","speak","truth","friends","lovers","lie","endlessly","caught","web","duty"],"answer":"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."},{"words":["truth","springs","agrument","friends"],"answer":"Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends."},{"words":["friend","represents","world","world","born","arrive","meeting","new","world","born"],"answer":"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."},{"words":["trying","known","powers","useless","seek","approval","friends","friends","best","moments","defeat"],"answer":"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."},{"words":["ultimate","test","relationship","disagree","hold","hands"],"answer":"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."},{"words":["friendly","cow","red","whitebr","i","love","heartbr","gives","cream","mightbr","eat","apple","tart"],"answer":"The friendly cow all red and white,<br> I love with all my heart:<br> She gives me cream with all her might;<br> to eat with apple tart."},{"words":["minutes","utterly","dull","conversation","i","began","think","woman","human","human","animal","animal","source","highgrade","protein"],"answer":"After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein."},{"words":["appear","reached","limits","possible","achieve","computer","technology","careful","statements","tend","sound","pretty","silly","5","years"],"answer":"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."},{"words":["difficult","say","impossible","dream","yesterday","hope","today","reality","tomorrow"],"answer":"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."},{"words":["reason","individual","computer","home"],"answer":"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."},{"words":["flying","machine","fly","new","york","paris","","known","motor","run","requisite","speed","days","stopping"],"answer":"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping."},{"words":["inventions","reached","limit","long","ago","i","hope","development"],"answer":"Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development."},{"words":["palpably","absurd","prospect","held","locomotives","travelling","twice","fast","stagecoaches"],"answer":"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"},{"words":["life","gets","complicated","weasels","start","closing","cure","load","heinous","chemicals","drive","like","bastard","hollywood","las","vegas","","music","volume","pint","ether"],"answer":"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether."},{"words":["think","try","experiment"],"answer":"Why think? Why not try the experiment?"},{"words":["true","worth","experimenter","consists","pursuing","seeks","experiment","did","seek"],"answer":"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."},{"words":["wiser","people","tell"],"answer":"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."},{"words":["view","","","essential","characteristic","experimentation","carried","limited","resources","essential","subject","experimental","design","ascertain","best","applied","particular","causes","disturbance","care","given","ought","deliberately","ignored"],"answer":"Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored."},{"words":["capital","mistake","theorize","data","insensibly","begins","twist","facts","suit","theories","instead","theories","suit","facts"],"answer":"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."},{"words":["fact","simple","statement","believes","innocent","unless","guilty","hypothesis","novel","suggestion","wants","believe","guilty","effective"],"answer":"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."},{"words":["facts","distort","facts","stubborn","statistics","pliable"],"answer":"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)"},{"words":["biologist","problem","socialism","appears","largely","problem","size","extreme","socialists","desire","run","nation","single","business","concern","i","suppose","henry","ford","difficulty","running","andorra","luxembourg","socialistic","basis","men","payroll","population","conceivable","syndicate","fords","make","belgium","denmark","pay","way","nationalization","certain","industries","obvious","possibility","largest","states","i","easier","picture","completely","socialized","british","empire","united","states","elephant","turning","somersaults","hippopotamus","jumping","hedge"],"answer":"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge."},{"words":["socialism","socialists"],"answer":"We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists."},{"words":["gun","warship","launched","rocket","fired","signifies","final","sense","theft","hunger","fed","cold","clothed","world","arms","spending","money","spending","sweat","laborers","genius","scientists","hopes","children","way","life","true","sense","clouds","war","humanity","hanging","cross","iron"],"answer":"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."},{"words":["nation","society","united","delusions","ancestry","common","hatred","neighbors"],"answer":"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors."},{"words":["poor","bastard","won","war","dying","country","won","making","bastards","die","country"],"answer":"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country."},{"words":["diplomacy","war","thing","fall","flat","week"],"answer":"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."},{"words":["conquer","enemy","resorting","war","desirable","highest","form","generalship","conquer","enemy","strategy"],"answer":"To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy."},{"words":["vietnam","jungle","jungle","warfare","kuwait","iraq","saudi","arabia","sand","need","worry","protracted","war","historical","basis","middle","east","conflicts","long","time"],"answer":"Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time."},{"words":["victory","gulf","war","stirring","victory","forces","aggression"],"answer":"[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression."},{"words":["little","known","war","1812","americans","lost"],"answer":"Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it."},{"words":["men","equal","birth","virtue","makes","difference"],"answer":"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."},{"words":["","ask","policy","i","say","wage","war","sea","land","air","strength","god","wage","war","monstrous","tyranny","surpassed","dark","lamentable","catalogue","human","crime","policy","ask","aim","i","answer","word","victory","","victory","costs","victory","spite","terror","victory","long","hard","road","victory","survival"],"answer":".... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; \"It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.\" You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."},{"words":["thought","god"],"answer":"After all, he thought he was God."},{"words":["god","created","sex","priests","created","marriage"],"answer":"God created sex. Priests created marriage."},{"words":["apology","devil","remembered","heard","case","god","written","books"],"answer":"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."},{"words":["beginning","man","created","god","image","man","created"],"answer":"In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."},{"words":["i","think","god","creating","man","somewhat","overestimated","ability"],"answer":"I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."},{"words":["man","genuinely","superior","intelligence","actor","supposing","young","man","appreciable","mental","powers","lured","stage","philosophers","occasionally","lured","bordellos","mind","inevitably","immediately","destroyed","gaudy","nonsense","issuing","mouth","night"],"answer":"...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night."},{"words":["dignity","consists","possessing","honors","consciousness","deserve"],"answer":"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."},{"words":["let","overthrow","totems","break","taboos","better","let","consider","cancelled","coldly","let","intelligent"],"answer":"Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent."},{"words":["distressing","contrast","radiant","intelligence","child","feeble","mentality","average","adult"],"answer":"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."},{"words":["far","i","remember","word","gospels","praise","intelligence"],"answer":"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."},{"words":["man","use","intelligence","invented","stupidity"],"answer":"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity."},{"words":["intelligent","man","successfully","fulfilled","accomplishments","willing","learn"],"answer":"The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more."},{"words":["past","years","time","intelligence","socially","correct","girls"],"answer":"Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls."},{"words":["young","girl","benightedly","unintelligent","organic","life","forms","profound","lack","pleasure","able","avoid","meeting"],"answer":"That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."},{"words":["avoidance","taxes","intellectual","pursuit","carries","reward"],"answer":"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."},{"words":["fair","ask","unwilling"],"answer":"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."},{"words":["science","said","useful","development","tends","accentuate","existing","inequalities","destribution","wealth","directly","promotes","destruction","human","life"],"answer":"...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life."},{"words":["science","ruined","like","sports","competition","clarify","rules","competition","withdrawing","entirely","narrowly","defined","specialties","rare","scholars","nomadsbychoice","essential","intellectual","welfare","settled","disciplines"],"answer":"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines."},{"words":["books","follow","sciences","sciences","books"],"answer":"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."},{"words":["sciences","try","explain","hardly","try","interpret","mainly","make","models","model","meant","mathematical","construct","addition","certain","verbal","interpretations","describes","observed","phenomena","justification","mathematical","construct","solely","precisely","expected","work"],"answer":"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work."},{"words":["i","wish","youth","country","devote","science","thirdly","passion","remember","science","demands","man","life","lives","passionate","work","searching"],"answer":"What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching."},{"words":["merciful","thing","world","i","think","inability","human","mind","correlate","contents","live","placid","island","ignorance","midst","black","seas","infinity","meant","voyage","far","sciences","straining","direction","hitherto","harmed","little","day","piecing","dissociated","knowledge","open","terrifying","vistas","reality","frightful","position","shall","mad","revelation","flee","deadly","light","peace","safety","new","dark","age"],"answer":"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."},{"words":["i","think","ultimate","destiny","science","exterminate","human","race"],"answer":"I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race."},{"words":["necessary","triumph","evil","good","men"],"answer":"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."},{"words":["scientists","easiest","fool","think","straight","predictable","directable","misdirectable","lines","world","know","logical","explanation","things","appear","children","conjurorsthey","terrify","scientists","problem","i","feel","quite","confident"],"answer":"Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident."},{"words":["folly","mistaking","paradox","discovery","metaphor","proof","torrent","verbiage","spring","capital","truths","oneself","oracle","inborn"],"answer":"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."},{"words":["difference","unethical","ethical","advertising","unethical","advertising","uses","falsehoods","deceive","public","ethical","advertising","uses","truth","deceive","public"],"answer":"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."},{"words":["i","tell","lie","anybody","doubt","truth","anybody","believe"],"answer":"I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."},{"words":["lie","travel","halfway","round","world","truth","putting","shoes"],"answer":"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."},{"words":["i","want","know","truth","perverted","sound"],"answer":"I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound."},{"words":["kinds","men","told"],"answer":"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else."},{"words":["road","truth","long","lined","entire","way","annoying","bastards"],"answer":"The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards"},{"words":["i","expected","look","truth"],"answer":"I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it."},{"words":["motivation","motivation","pay","packet","friday"],"answer":"Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it."},{"words":["i","food","poor","saint","i","ask","poor","food","communist"],"answer":"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."},{"words":["i","write","metropolis","seven","cents","i","price","city","i","write","policeman","i","money","cop"],"answer":"I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop."},{"words":["christianity","morality","religion","come","contact","reality","point"],"answer":"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."},{"words":["faith","wanting","know","true"],"answer":"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."},{"words":["celibate","clergy","especially","good","idea","tends","suppress","hereditary","propensity","fanaticism"],"answer":"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."},{"words":["beethoven","killed","plane","crash","age","22","changed","history","music","aviation"],"answer":"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."},{"words":["i","study","religions","i","convinced","man","worshipped"],"answer":"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."},{"words":["just","religion","make","hate","make","love"],"answer":"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another."},{"words":["emphasize","afterlife","deny","life","concentrate","heaven","create","hell","desperate","longing","transcend","disorderliness","friction","unpredictability","pesters","life","desire","fresh","start","tidy","habitat","germfree","secured","angels","religious","multitudes","gambling","life","dark","horse","race","finish","line"],"answer":"...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.\""},{"words":["fact","heaven","hell","know","sure","hell","viciously","overcrowded","version","phoenix"],"answer":"If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix..."},{"words":["good","like","good","got","actions","lost"],"answer":"A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one."},{"words":["debugging","art","removing","bugs","programming","art","inserting"],"answer":"If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them."},{"words":["primary","purpose","data","statement","names","constants","instead","referring","pi","3141592653589793","appearance","variable","pi","given","value","data","statement","used","instead","longer","form","constant","simplifies","modifying","program","value","pi","change"],"answer":"The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change."},{"words":["process","preparing","programs","digital","computer","especially","attractive","economically","scientifically","rewarding","aesthetic","experience","like","composing","poetry","music"],"answer":"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music."},{"words":["come","strange","cycle","programming","starting","creation","programming","human","activity","executives","tiniest","smattering","knowledge","assume","write","program","programmers","beginning","win","battle","recognition","true","professionals","just","background","training","fine","job","programming","programmers","know","think","picked","street","documentation","spend","hour","looking","papers","written","graduate","students","realize","extent","ability","communicate","universally","held","speak","computer","program","documentation","speaking","psychology","computer","programming","","insofar","programmers","illusion","good","job","documentation","provided","smart","programmer"],"answer":"We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer."},{"words":["george","bush","raised","taxes","people","driving","pickup","trucks","lowered","taxes","people","riding","limousines","better"],"answer":"[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better."},{"words":["fools","admire","men","sense","approve"],"answer":"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."},{"words":["humble","dung","noble","stars"],"answer":"Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars."},{"words":["human","consciousness","arose","minute","midnight","geological","clock","mayflies","try","bend","ancient","world","purposes","ignorant","messages","buried","long","history","let","hope","early","morning","april","day"],"answer":"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day."},{"words":["effort","understand","universe","things","lifts","human","life","little","level","farce","gives","grace","tragedy"],"answer":"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."},{"words":["man","reed","feeble","thing","nature","thinking","reed","entire","universe","need","arm","crush","vapour","drop","water","suffices","kill","universe","crush","man","noble","killed","knows","dies","advantage","universe","universe","knows"],"answer":"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this."},{"words":["man","wonderful","object","nature","conceive","body","mind","body","united","mind","consummation","difficulties"],"answer":"Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being."},{"words":["discovered","aliens","stopped","earth","let","kids","leak"],"answer":"How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?"},{"words":["equal","rights","created"],"answer":"Equal Rights were created for everyone."},{"words":["i","lying","i","said","things","later","untrue"],"answer":"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."},{"words":["1","rise","hand","policeman","stop","rapidly","pass","disrespect","himbr","2","pedestrian","obstacle","path","tootle","horn","melodiously","continue","obstacle","tootle","horn","vigorously","utter","vocal","warning","hi","hibr","br","5","beware","greasy","corner","lurk","skid","demon","cease","step","approach","slowly","round","cautiously","resume","step","gradually"],"answer":"1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him.<br> 2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as \"Hi, Hi.\"<br> [...]<br> 5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually."},{"words":["demonstration","possible","combination","known","substances","known","forms","machinery","known","forms","force","united","practical","machine","man","shall","fly","long","distances","air","writer","complete","possible","demonstration","physical","fact"],"answer":"The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be."},{"words":["i","gone","country","i","americans"],"answer":"Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."},{"words":["fellow","astronauts"],"answer":"My fellow astronauts..."},{"words":["half","game","90","mental"],"answer":"Half this game is 90% mental."},{"words":["i","saw","president","reagan","foot","highly","polished","brown","cordovan","wagging","merrily","hassock","i","spied","door","beautiful","foot","sleek","casual","elegance","clean","lines","big","foot","formidable","maybe","little","frail","i","imagined","cradling","arms","protecting","unsmooth","roads"],"answer":"I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads."},{"words":["away","movie","stars","taking","women","robert","redford","dating","girlfriend","tom","selleck","kissing","lady","bart","simpson","making","love","wife"],"answer":"While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife."},{"words":["i","want","gain","1500","2000","yards","whichever","comes"],"answer":"I want to gain 1,500 or 2,000 yards, whichever comes first."},{"words":["crime","went","100","50","times","higher","shoud"],"answer":"If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be."},{"words":["looks","foreign","affairs","wrong","end","municipal","drainpipe"],"answer":"[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe."},{"words":["relieve","wuthering","height"],"answer":"Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height"},{"words":["heaven","going","people","like","hardie","almighty"],"answer":"If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself."},{"words":["grace","god","goes","god"],"answer":"There but for the grace of God goes God."},{"words":["said","lord","rosebery","outlived","future","years","past"],"answer":"It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty."},{"words":["recognizing","china","recognize","does","mean","like","instance","recognize","right","honourable","gentleman","member","ebbw","vale"],"answer":"[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale."},{"words":["chaos","score","reality","written"],"answer":"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."},{"words":["confusion","word","invented","order","understood"],"answer":"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood."},{"words":["salvation","adapted","world","crazy"],"answer":"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."},{"words":["i","perfect","cure","sore","throat","cut"],"answer":"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."},{"words":["teen","angst","body","count"],"answer":"My teen angst has a body count."},{"words":["philosophy","highest","music"],"answer":"Philosophy is the highest music."},{"words":["voice","oh","silence","sank","like","music","heart"],"answer":"No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart."},{"words":["i","music","augmentation","split","second","time"],"answer":"I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time."},{"words":["music","life","mistake"],"answer":"Without music, life would be a mistake."},{"words":["sure","music","beauty","silent","note","cupid","strikes","far","sweeter","sound","instrument","music","harmony","order","proportion","far","maintain","music","spheres","ordered","motions","regular","paces","sound","unto","ear","understanding","strike","note","harmony"],"answer":"Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony."},{"words":["good","bad","music","bad","reasons","sound","march","enemy"],"answer":"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy."},{"words":["numerous","politicians","seized","absolute","power","muzzled","press","history","press","seized","absolute","power","muzzled","politicians"],"answer":"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."},{"words":["political","language","","variations","true","political","parties","conservatives","anarchists","","designed","make","lies","sound","truthful","murder","respectable","appearance","solidity","pure","wind"],"answer":"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."},{"words":["politicians","read","science","fiction","westerns","detective","stories"],"answer":"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."},{"words":["look","backward","refresh","eye","restore","render","fit","prime","function","looking","forward"],"answer":"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."},{"words":["i","gather","young","man","wish","member","parliament","lesson","learn","i","statistics","rate","infant","mortality","i","want","proof","fewer","babies","died","i","prime","minister","prime","minister","political","statistic"],"answer":"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."},{"words":["politics","largely","irrelevancies"],"answer":"Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."},{"words":["staked","future","american","civilization","power","government","far","staked","future","political","institutions","capacity","mankind","selfgovernment","capacity","govern","control","sustain","according","commandments","god"],"answer":"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."},{"words":["meetings","addictive","highly","selfindulgent","activity","corporations","organizations","habitually","engage","actually","masturbate"],"answer":"Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate."},{"words":["sympathetic","scot","summed","neatly","remark","make","point","trying","experience","excepting","incest","folk","dancing"],"answer":"A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, \"You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.\""},{"words":["delights","world","man","cares","sexual","intercourse","left","heaven"],"answer":"Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven."},{"words":["alert","recognize","prime","time","life","occur"],"answer":"Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur."},{"words":["language","exists","surface","consciousness","great","human","struggles","played","silence","ability","express","oneself"],"answer":"Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself."},{"words":["certain","age","child","looks","earnestness","delivers","long","pleased","speech","true","inflections","spoken","english","recognizable","syllable","way","tell","child","language","melody","mastered","fact","sense","botched","utterly"],"answer":"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly."},{"words":["exaggerated","turns","speech","conceal","mediocre","affections","fulness","soul","overflow","emptiest","metaphors","exact","measurements","needs","conceptions","sufferings","human","word","like","cracked","cauldron","beat","melodies","fit","making","bears","dance","trying","stars","pity"],"answer":"...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity."},{"words":["sticks","stones","break","bones","words","break","hearts"],"answer":"Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts..."},{"words":["i","bear","little","brain","big","words","bother"],"answer":"For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me."},{"words":["did","itbr","whatbr","knowbr","thinkbr","oh"],"answer":"\"Where did you put it?\"<br> \"Put what?\"<br> \"You know?\"<br> \"Where do you think?\"<br> \"Oh.\""},{"words":["aim","sun","reach","arrow","fly","far","higher","aimed","object","level"],"answer":"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself."},{"words":["i","argument","i","obliged","understanding"],"answer":"I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."},{"words":["man","does","live","words","despite","fact","eat"],"answer":"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them."},{"words":["i","think","i","verb"],"answer":"I think I am a verb."},{"words":["shouts","loud","ears","i","hear","say"],"answer":"What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say."},{"words":["year","tried","teach","english","word","learned","million"],"answer":"All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million."},{"words":["benevolence","butcher","brewer","baker","expect","dinner","regard","selfinterest","address","humanity","selflove","talk","neccessities","advantages"],"answer":"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages."},{"words":["market","invention","capitalism","existed","centuries","invention","civilization"],"answer":"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."},{"words":["consent","creep","feels","impulse","soar"],"answer":"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."},{"words":["worst","crime","working","people","company","fails","operate","profit"],"answer":"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit."},{"words":["fine","art","pizza","delivery","falls","neatly"],"answer":"Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!"},{"words":["i","like","story","frog","cold","water","bestir","water","heated","slowly","gradually","end","let","boiled","alive","comfortable","continuity","realize","continuous","change","point","intolerable","demand","change","behavior"],"answer":"I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior."},{"words":["capitalism","astounding","belief","wickedest","men","wickedest","things","greatest","good"],"answer":"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone"},{"words":["i","live","managerial","age","world","admin","greatest","evil","sordid","dens","crime","dickens","loved","paint","concentration","camps","labour","camps","final","result","conceived","ordered","moved","seconded","carried","minuted","clean","carpeted","warmed","welllighted","offices","quiet","men","white","collars","cut","fingernails","smoothshaven","cheeks","need","raise","voices","naturally","symbol","hell","like","bureaucracy","police","state","office","thoroughly","nasty","business","concern"],"answer":"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of \"Admin.\" The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid \"dens of crime\" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."},{"words":["i","stopped","believing","santa","claus","i","mother","took","department","store","asked","autograph"],"answer":"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."},{"words":["deviation","truth","multiplied","later"],"answer":"The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later."},{"words":["got","moral"],"answer":"Everything has got a moral if you can only find it."},{"words":["truth","comes","world","like","bastard","ignominy","brought","birth"],"answer":"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."},{"words":["i","know","men","including","ease","problems","greatest","complexity","seldom","accept","simplest","obvious","truth","oblige","admit","falsity","conclusions","delighted","explaining","colleagues","proudly","taught","woven","thread","thread","fabric","lives"],"answer":"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."},{"words":["technique","succeeds","mathematical","physics","clever","trick","happy","accident","expresses","aspect","physical","truth"],"answer":"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth."},{"words":["opposite","correct","statement","false","statement","opposite","profound","truth","profound","truth"],"answer":"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."},{"words":["basic","notion","underlying","usenet","flame"],"answer":"The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame."},{"words":["shown","nutty","theory","beyondthefringe","political","view","strange","religion","exists","proponent","net","proof","left","exercise","killfile"],"answer":"It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file."},{"words":["hours","spent","convincing","i","right","reason","fear","i","wrong"],"answer":"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"},{"words":["live","tv","died","late","1950s","electronic","bulletin","boards","came","mid1980s","meaning","25year","gap","difficult","foot","mouth","people","country","know"],"answer":"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it."},{"words":["network","reticulated","decussated","interstices","intersections"],"answer":"network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections"},{"words":["practical","good","theory"],"answer":"There is nothing more practical than a good theory."},{"words":["wonders","discovers","wonder"],"answer":"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."},{"words":["nature","earlier","man","man","earlier","natural","science"],"answer":"Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science."},{"words":["pardon","theodotus","barbarian","thinks","customs","tribe","island","laws","nature"],"answer":"Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."},{"words":["fatal","right","rest","world","wrong"],"answer":"It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong."},{"words":["thing","true","desperate","folly"],"answer":"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly."},{"words":["beware","laughter","deadens","mind","produces","oblivion"],"answer":"Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion."},{"words":["culture","distinctive","normal","government","democracy","moderated","corruption","totalitarianism","moderated","assassination"],"answer":"Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination."},{"words":["real","question","government","versus","private","enterprise","argued","philosophical","abstract","basis","theoretically","planning","good","figured","cause","government","stupidity","cure","ideal","plans","fall","quicksand"],"answer":"The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand."},{"words":["spirit","resistance","government","valuable","certain","occasions","i","wish","kept","alive"],"answer":"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."},{"words":["marvel","history","patience","men","women","submit","burdens","unnecessarily","laid","governments"],"answer":"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."},{"words":["i","look","forward","continued","immaturity","followed","death"],"answer":"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."},{"words":["peple","enormously","improved","death"],"answer":"He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death"},{"words":["completely","consistent","people","dead"],"answer":"The only completely consistent people are the dead."},{"words":["build","security","nobleness","person"],"answer":"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."},{"words":["entire","universe","perishes","believe","things","vary","adopt","new","form","phrase","born","used","beginning","different","dying","means","ceasing","thing","pass","sums","things","remains","unchanged"],"answer":"Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase \"being born\" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while \"dying\" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged."},{"words":["owe","deep","debt","gratitude","adam","great","benefactor","human","race","brought","death","world"],"answer":"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."},{"words":["add","sum","human","goodness","prove","thing","exists","futile","individual","act","courage","generosity","selfsacrifice","graceit","proves","thing","exists","act","adds","fund","needs","replenishment","evil","flourishes","indefensibly","defended","goodness","longer","respectable","aim","life","hound","hell","envy","driven","house"],"answer":"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house."},{"words":["till","lost","words","till","lost","world","begin","realize","infinite","extent","relations"],"answer":"Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations."},{"words":["formula","living","quite","simple","i","morning","i","bed","night","i","occupy","best","i"],"answer":"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."},{"words":["greatest","way","live","honor","world","pretend"],"answer":"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."},{"words":["know","friends","brave","carousebri","second","marriage","housebr","divorced","old","barren","reason","bedbrand","took","daughter","vine","spousebrbrfor","isnot","rule","linebrand","upanddown","logic","i","definebr","care","fathom","ibrwas","deep","","wine"],"answer":"You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse<br>I made a Second Marriage in my house;<br> Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,<br>And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.<br><br>For \"Is\" and \"Is-not\" though with Rule and Line<br>And \"Up-and-down\" by Logic I define,<br> Of all that one should care to fathom, I<br>Was never deep in anything but - Wine."},{"words":["help","child","task","feels","succeed"],"answer":"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."},{"words":["specific","goal","revolutionize","future","species","mathematics","just","way","predicting","future"],"answer":"My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future."},{"words":["mathematics","transfigures","fortuitous","concourse","atoms","tracery","finger","god"],"answer":"Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God."},{"words":["philosophy","game","objectives","rules","mathematics","game","rules","objectives"],"answer":"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives."},{"words":["god","does","care","mathematical","difficulties","integrates","empirically"],"answer":"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."},{"words":["apply","mathematics","long","words","becloud","reality"],"answer":"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."},{"words":["astonishing","imagination","science","mathematics","repeat","far","imagination","head","archimedes","homer"],"answer":"There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer."},{"words":["extensive","computation","known","conducted","billion","years","planetwide","scale","evolution","life","power","computation","illustrated","complexity","beauty","crowning","achievement","human","brain"],"answer":"The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain."},{"words":["i","far","say","construct","history","thought","profound","study","mathematical","ideas","successive","epochs","like","omitting","hamlet","play","named","","","certainly","analogous","cutting","ophelia","simile","singularly","exact","ophelia","quite","essential","play","charming","little","mad"],"answer":"I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad."},{"words":["son","daughter","gift","let","enthusiasm"],"answer":"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."},{"words":["certain","real","function","art","increase","selfconsciousness","make","aware","universe","live","really","mathematics","way","performs","function","aesthetically","charming","profoundly","significant","art","great","art"],"answer":"...it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art."},{"words":["mathematician","lives","long","lives","young","wings","soul","early","drop","pores","clogged","earthy","particles","blown","dusty","highways","vulgar","life"],"answer":"The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life."},{"words":["did","biot","arrive","partial","differential","equation","heat","conduction","equation","","","","laplace","gave","biot","equation","left","sink","swim","years","trying","derive","merely","instance","way","great","mathematicians","beginnings","mathematical","research","effortlessly","maintained","superiority","ordinary","mortals"],"answer":"How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals."},{"words":["blithe","certainty","came","comprehending","einstein","field","equations","arabesques","greek","letters","clinging","tenuously","page","gossamer","web","insubstantial","saw","string","squiggles","follow","delicate","tensors","contracted","superscripts","paired","subscripts","collapsing","mathematically","concrete","classical","entities","potential","mass","forces","vectoring","curved","geometry","sublime","experience","iron","fist","real","inside","velvet","glove","airy","mathematics"],"answer":"There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics."},{"words":["price","pay","experience","sell","youth","buy"],"answer":"What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it."},{"words":["history","repeats","unexpected","happens","incapable","man","learning","experience"],"answer":"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."},{"words":["careful","experience","wisdom","itand","stop","lest","like","cat","sits","hot","stove","lid","sit","hot","stove","lid","againand","sit","cold","anymore"],"answer":"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."},{"words":["experience","causes","person","make","new","mistakes","instead","old","ones"],"answer":"Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones."},{"words":["experience","hard","teacher","gives","test","lessons"],"answer":"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards."},{"words":["experience","consists","experiencing","does","wish","experience"],"answer":"Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience"},{"words":["example","year","1","useless","letter","c","dropped","replased","k","s","likewise","x","longer","alphabet","kase","c","retained","ch","formation","dealt","later","year","2","reform","w","spelling","konsonant","wile","year","3","abolish","y","replasing","i","iear","4","fiks","gbrj","anomali","wonse","allbr","br","jenerally","improvement","kontinue","iear","bai","iear","iear","5","doing","awai","useless","double","konsonants","iears","612","modifaiing","vowlz","rimeining","voist","unvoist","konsonants","bai","iear","15","sou","wud","fainali","bi","posibl","tu","meik","ius","ov","thi","ridandant","letez","c","y","x","","bai","jast","memori","maindz","ov","ould","doderez","","tu","riplais","ch","sh","th","rispektivlibr","br","fainali","xen","aafte","sam","20","iers","ov","orxogrefkl","riform","wi","wudbr","hev","lojikl","kohirnt","speling","ius","xrewawt","xe","ingliyspiking","werld"],"answer":"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter \"c\" would be dropped to be replased either by \"k\" or \"s\", and likewise \"x\" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which \"c\" would be retained would be the \"ch\" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform \"w\" spelling, so that \"which\" and \"one\" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish \"y\" replasing it with \"i\" and Iear 4 might fiks the \"g<br>j\" anomali wonse and for all.<br> <br> Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez \"c\", \"y\" and \"x\" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais \"ch\", \"sh\", and \"th\" rispektivli.<br> <br> Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud<br> hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld."},{"words":["cap","good","acid","costs","dollars","hear","universal","symphony","god","singing","solo","holy","ghost","drums"],"answer":"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums."},{"words":["man","apt","forget","world","choice","left"],"answer":"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him."},{"words":["god","dropped","acid","people"],"answer":"If God dropped acid, would he see people?"},{"words":["knowledge","expensive"],"answer":"Knowledge is expensive."},{"words":["education","best","provision","old","age"],"answer":"Education is the best provision for old age."},{"words":["education","makes","people","easy","lead","difficult","drive","easy","govern","impossible","enslave"],"answer":"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."},{"words":["abundant","things","universe","hydrogen","stupidity"],"answer":"The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."},{"words":["mark","educated","mind","able","entertain","thought","accepting"],"answer":"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."},{"words":["american","professors","like","literature","clear","cold","pure","dead"],"answer":"Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead."},{"words":["curiosity","basis","education","tell","curiosity","killed","cat","i","say","cat","died","nobly"],"answer":"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."},{"words":["fool","tell","truth","requires","man","sense","know","lie"],"answer":"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."},{"words":["little","learning","dangerous","thing","lot","ignorance","just","bad"],"answer":"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."},{"words":["sincerely","desire","_truly_","wellrounded","education","study","extremists","obscure","nutty","need","balance","poor","brain","impregnated","middleoftheroad","crap","twentyfour","hours","day","_no","matter","what_","network","tv","newspapers","radio","magazines","supermarket","watch","read","listen","leave","house","deaf","blind","_telepathic","pressure","alone_","uncountable","normals","surrounding","insure","automatically","grounded","consensus","reality"],"answer":"If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and \"nutty\". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality."},{"words":["human","history","race","education","catastrophe"],"answer":"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."},{"words":["good","citizen","simply","says","does","thinks","unusual","schools","maintained","order","bring","uniformity","highest","possible","point","school","hopper","children","heaved","young","tender","pressed","certain","standard","shapes","covered","head","heels","official","rubberstamps"],"answer":"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps."},{"words":["heart","stone","read","death","little","nell","laughing"],"answer":"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing."},{"words":["penny","thoughtsbr","dollar","death"],"answer":"\"A penny for your thoughts?\"<br> \"A dollar for your death.\""},{"words":["people","thinking","security","instead","opportunity","afraid","life","death"],"answer":"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."},{"words":["single","death","tragedy","million","deaths","statistic"],"answer":"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."},{"words":["feminism","radical","concept","women","people"],"answer":"Feminism is the radical concept that women are people."},{"words":["men","menstruated","brag","long"],"answer":"If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long."},{"words":["heaven","goes","favour","went","merit","stay","dog"],"answer":"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."},{"words":["i","loved","life","i","shall","sorrow","die"],"answer":"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die."},{"words":["purpose","liberal","arts","education","learn","person","like","cats","dogs"],"answer":"The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!"},{"words":["dog","bites","man","news","man","bites","dog","news"],"answer":"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news."},{"words":["man","wise","attacked","mad","dog","fewer","pursued","mad","woman","wisest","survive","attacked","mad","notion"],"answer":"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."},{"words":["political","history","largely","account","mass","violence","expenditure","vast","resources","cope","mythical","fears","hopes"],"answer":"Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes."},{"words":["read","official","documents","needs","told","easy","conceal","essential","truth","apparently","candid","disclosing","phrases","voluminous","particularizing","report"],"answer":"No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report...."},{"words":["today","successful","congressman","fundraising","ability","hooker","trying","raise","cab","fare","home"],"answer":"Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home...."},{"words":["speaks","loud","i","hear","say"],"answer":"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."},{"words":["politician","tip","true","belief","stating","opposite","beginning","sentence","maximum","comprehension","start","listening","clause","concluded","begin","instead","word","begins","second","active","clause","way","tell","liberal","conservative","","tell","youbr","i","believed","strong","national","defense","second","","","liberal","propose","20","billion","defense","cut"],"answer":"A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word \"but\" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.<br> Thus: \"I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... \" (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut)."},{"words":["danger","computers","eventually","smart","men","agree","meet","halfway"],"answer":"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.\""},{"words":["course","commercials","savvy","businesspeople","ahead","using","macintosh","computers","create","ultimate","american","business","product","really","sharplooking","report"],"answer":"And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report."},{"words":["selfrespect","cornerstone","virtue"],"answer":"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."},{"words":["automobile","followed","development","cyclee","computer","rollsroyce","today","cost","100","million","miles","gallon","explode","year","killing","inside"],"answer":"If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.\""},{"words":["practically","impossible","teach","good","programming","style","students","prior","exposure","basic","potential","programmers","mentally","mutilated","hope","regeneration"],"answer":"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."},{"words":["plbr1","fatal","disease","belongs","problem","set","solution","set"],"answer":"PL<br>1, \"the fatal disease\", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set."},{"words":["computer","science","computers","astronomy","telescopes"],"answer":"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."},{"words":["artificial","intelligence","art","making","computers","behave","like","ones","movies"],"answer":"Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies"},{"words":["programmers","playwrights","computers","lousy","actors"],"answer":"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."},{"words":["apprentice","carpenter","want","hammer","saw","master","craftsman","employs","precision","tools","computer","programming","likewise","requires","sophisticated","tools","cope","complexity","real","applications","practice","tools","build","skill","use"],"answer":"An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use."},{"words":["pick","battles","big","matter","small","win"],"answer":"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."},{"words":["grain","modern","education","teach","children","program","fun","making","plans","acquiring","discipline","organizing","thoughts","devoting","attention","learning","selfcritical"],"answer":"It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?"},{"words":["sufficiently","advanced","bug","indistinguishable","feature"],"answer":"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature."},{"words":["calculator","eniac","equpped","18000","vaccuum","tubes","weighs","30","tons","computers","future","1000","vaccuum","tubes","weigh","1","1br2","tons"],"answer":"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1<br>2 tons."},{"words":["life","simple","world","war","ii","systems"],"answer":"Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems."},{"words":["i","cat","named","trash","current","political","climate","i","trying","sell","computer","scientist","i","stress","gentle","humans","selfsufficient","living","field","mice","i","argue","objectoriented"],"answer":"I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented."},{"words":["wish","merit","known","acknowledge","people"],"answer":"If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people."},{"words":["pixel","n","mischievous","magical","spirit","associated","screen","displays","computer","industry","frequently","borrowed","mythology","witness","sprites","computer","graphics","demons","artificial","intelligence","trolls","marketing","department"],"answer":"pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department."},{"words":["statemanship","fewer","battleships"],"answer":"If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships."},{"words":["war","military","science","real","science","like","astronomy","war","like","astrology"],"answer":"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."},{"words":["war","just","war","necessary"],"answer":"War is just to those to whom war is necessary."},{"words":["humility","portion","man","receives","acclaim","earned","blood","followers","sacrifices","friends"],"answer":"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."},{"words":["setting","loose","battlefield","weapons","able","learn","biggest","mistakes","mankind"],"answer":"Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last."},{"words":["people","imagine","nuclear","war","mean","instant","painless","death","millions","case","accounts","injured","hiroshima","nagasaki","doctors","tried","tend","witness","horrors","torments","magnified","thousands","times","kinds","attack","analyse","",""],"answer":"Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . ."},{"words":["powerful","power"],"answer":"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."},{"words":["let","live","come","die","undertaker","sorry"],"answer":"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."},{"words":["reviewer","expresses","rage","loathing","novel","preposterous","like","person","armor","attacked","hot","fudge","sundae"],"answer":"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."},{"words":["better","hated","loved"],"answer":"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."},{"words":["learn","brave","patient","joy","world"],"answer":"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."},{"words":["fault","easy","better","difficult"],"answer":"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."},{"words":["things","learn","learn","doing"],"answer":"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."},{"words":["having","decided","achieve","certain","task","achieve","costs","tedium","distaste","gain","selfconfidence","having","accomplished","tiresome","labor","immense"],"answer":"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."},{"words":["make","mind","act","decidedly","consequences","good","world","hesitation"],"answer":"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."},{"words":["sufficiently","advanced","bureaucracy","indistinguishable","molasses"],"answer":"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."},{"words":["learn","midst","activity","vibrantly","alive","repose"],"answer":"We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."},{"words":["refuse","straight","green","straight","dry"],"answer":"If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry."},{"words":["say"],"answer":"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."},{"words":["aim","hit"],"answer":"It is not enough to aim; you must hit."},{"words":["away","people","try","belittle","ambitions","small","people","really","great","make","feel","great"],"answer":"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. 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It lasted forty-three years."},{"words":["temper","wrong"],"answer":"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."},{"words":["know","children","growing","start","asking","questions","answers"],"answer":"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."},{"words":["best","way","children","home","make","home","atmosphere","pleasantand","let","air","tires"],"answer":"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."},{"words":["children","grandchildren"],"answer":"Never have children, only grandchildren."},{"words":["forgive","enemies","annoys"],"answer":"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."},{"words":["i","like","long","walks","especially","taken","people","annoy"],"answer":"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."},{"words":["i","hope","people","smelling","flowers","taking","time","plant"],"answer":"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some."},{"words":["eat","drink","leave","remaining","stomach","angry","sufficient","room","rage"],"answer":"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage."},{"words":["life","like","playing","violin","public","learning","instrument","goes"],"answer":"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."},{"words":["life","dreams","revenge"],"answer":"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."},{"words":["people","born","base","life","thinking","hit","triple"],"answer":"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."},{"words":["i","think","learn","really","live","decision"],"answer":"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."},{"words":["appearance","said","gauge","measured","try","manage","times","beware","doing"],"answer":"Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less."},{"words":["continually","faced","series","great","opportunities","brilliantly","disguised","insoluble","problems"],"answer":"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."},{"words":["think","generalities","live"],"answer":"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."},{"words":["life","unbroken","succession","false","situations"],"answer":"Life is an unbroken succession of false situations."},{"words":["greatest","use","life","spend","outlast"],"answer":"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."},{"words":["luxuries","life","i","willingly","necessities"],"answer":"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."},{"words":["man","says","willing","meet","halfway","usually","poor","judge","distance"],"answer":"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."},{"words":["believe","possible","ward","death","following","rules","good","grooming"],"answer":"We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming."},{"words":["matter","rich","famous","powerful","die","size","funeral","pretty","depend","weather"],"answer":"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."},{"words":["beware","long","live","judging","people","appearances"],"answer":"Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances."},{"words":["poets","mysteriously","silent","subject","cheese"],"answer":"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."},{"words":["i","longer","prepare","food","drink","ingredient"],"answer":"I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient."},{"words":["secret","success","life","eat","like","let","food","fight","inside"],"answer":"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."},{"words":["cockroaches","socialites","things","stay","night","eat"],"answer":"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."},{"words":["keeping","clothes","pressed","looking","hard","pressed"],"answer":"Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed."},{"words":["happiness","makes","height","lacks","length"],"answer":"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."},{"words":["pleasure","gained","useless","knowledge"],"answer":"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."},{"words":["dull","people","brilliant","breakfast"],"answer":"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."},{"words":["know","known","ought","know","little"],"answer":"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."},{"words":["incompetent","make","mess"],"answer":"The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it."},{"words":["impossible","defeat","ignorant","man","argument"],"answer":"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."},{"words":["intellectual","man","takes","words","necessary","tell","knows"],"answer":"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."},{"words":["intelligence","test","shows","man","smart","taken"],"answer":"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."},{"words":["try","tell","know","short","time"],"answer":"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."},{"words":["judge","men","mere","appearances","light","laughter","bubbles","lip","mantles","depths","sadness","look","sober","veil","covers","divine","peace","joy"],"answer":"Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy."},{"words":["age","proud","machines","think","suspicious","men","try"],"answer":"Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."},{"words":["indebted","memory","jests","imagination","facts"],"answer":"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."},{"words":["advantage","bad","memory","enjoys","times","good","things","time"],"answer":"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."},{"words":["confusion","honest","response"],"answer":"Confusion is always the most honest response."},{"words":["absence","alternatives","clears","mind","marvelously"],"answer":"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."},{"words":["consistency","refuge","unimaginative"],"answer":"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."},{"words":["cluttered","desk","sign","cluttered","mind","significance","clean","desk"],"answer":"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"},{"words":["argument","care","temper","logic","care"],"answer":"If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. 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Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."},{"words":["way","possible","boy","girl","choose","life","work","occupation","like","did","need","money"],"answer":"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money."},{"words":["proud","virtue","poison","oneself","antidote"],"answer":"To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote."},{"words":["difference","god","historians","consists","fact","god","alter","past"],"answer":"The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past."},{"words":["natural","history","added","little","sum","achievement","added","immeasurably","sum","enjoyment","life"],"answer":"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life."},{"words":["people","let","government","decide","foods","eat","medicines","bodies","soon","sorry","state","souls","live","tyranny"],"answer":"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."},{"words":["make","unpopular","people","seriously"],"answer":"First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously."},{"words":["end","society","defined","create","refuse","destroy"],"answer":"In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy."},{"words":["i","foresee","time","industry","shall","longer","denude","forests","require","generations","mature","use","mines","ages","making","shall","draw","materials","largely","annual","produce","fields"],"answer":"I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields."},{"words":["i","believe","great","creator","ores","oil","earth","breathing","spell","exhaust","prepared","fall","farms","god"],"answer":"I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. 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Else small aid is wealth<br>For daily gladness; once a man be done<br>With hunger, rich and poor are all as one."},{"words":["day","honest","men","night","thieves"],"answer":"The day is for honest men, the night for thieves."},{"words":["talk","sense","fool","calls","foolish"],"answer":"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."},{"words":["slow","sure","moves","gods"],"answer":"Slow but sure moves the might of the gods."},{"words":["company","just","righteous","men","better","wealth","rich","estate"],"answer":"The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate."},{"words":["confidence","ability","tough","follow"],"answer":"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."},{"words":["bad","beginning","makes","bad","ending"],"answer":"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."},{"words":["time","explain","talker","needs","questioning","speaks"],"answer":"Time will explain it all. 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And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants."},{"words":["seize","day","trust","morrowbrcarpe","diem","quam","minimum","credula","postero"],"answer":"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!<br>[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]"},{"words":["adversity","remember","mind"],"answer":"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."},{"words":["trumpet","herd","elephants","crow","company","cocks","bleat","flock","goats"],"answer":"Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats."},{"words":["cultivates","golden","mean","avoids","poverty","hovel","envy","palace"],"answer":"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."},{"words":["force","wisdom","falls","weight"],"answer":"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."},{"words":["i","love","live","ready","die"],"answer":"With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die."},{"words":["brave","men","lived","agamemnon","overwhelmed","eternal","night","unwept","unknown","lack","sacred","poet"],"answer":"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."},{"words":["rich","man","properly","happy","knows","use","wisdom","blessings","gods","endure","hard","poverty","fears","dishonor","worse","death","afraid","die","cherished","friends","fatherland"],"answer":"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."},{"words":["flee","vice","beginning","virtue","got","rid","folly","beginning","wisdom"],"answer":"To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom."},{"words":["make","money","money","fair","means","means","money"],"answer":"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."},{"words":["begun","half","dare","wise","begin"],"answer":"He who has begun has half done. 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And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"},{"words":["educated","free"],"answer":"Only the educated are free."},{"words":["business","practices","philosophy","rid","selfconceit","impossible","begin","learn","thinks","knows"],"answer":"What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. 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Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman."},{"words":["den","wide","world","hide","rogue","commit","crime","earth","glass","commit","crime","coat","snow","fell","ground","reveals","woods","track","partridge","fox","squirrel"],"answer":"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel."},{"words":["reprove","thy","friend","privately","commend","publicly"],"answer":"Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly."},{"words":["rest","satisfied","doing","leave","talk"],"answer":"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."},{"words":["seize","moment","excited","curiosity","subject","solve","doubts","let","pass","desire","return","remain","ignorance"],"answer":"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance."},{"words":["cynic","gentle","help","sneer","devil"],"answer":"Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. 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Some remain so."},{"words":["born","englishman","remained","years"],"answer":"He was born an Englishman and remained one for years."},{"words":["dog","bites","man","news","happens","man","bites","dog","news"],"answer":"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."},{"words":["way","win","atomic","war","make","certain","starts"],"answer":"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."},{"words":["i","think","going","bridge","far"],"answer":"I think we might be going a bridge too far."},{"words":["politics","art","possible"],"answer":"Politics is the art of the possible."},{"words":["said","love","money","root","evil","want","money","quite","truly"],"answer":"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. 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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job."},{"words":["attend","continually","promptly","little","shall","ere","long","surprised","little","remains"],"answer":"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."},{"words":["stettin","baltic","trieste","adriatic","iron","curtain","descended","continent"],"answer":"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."},{"words":["end","beginning","end","end","beginning"],"answer":"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. 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Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."},{"words":["i","forecast","action","russia","riddle","wrapped","mystery","inside","enigma","key","key","russian","national"],"answer":"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."},{"words":["empires","future","empires","mind"],"answer":"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."},{"words":["definite","good","definite","persons"],"answer":"Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons."},{"words":["life"],"answer":"Whose life is it anyway?"},{"words":["worst","tragedy","poet","admired","misunderstood"],"answer":"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."},{"words":["literature","art","writing","read","twice","journalism","read"],"answer":"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once."},{"words":["right","strike","public","safety","anybody","time"],"answer":"There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time."},{"words":["chief","business","american","people","business"],"answer":"The chief business of the American people is business."},{"words":["science","credit","goes","man","convinces","world","man","idea","occurs"],"answer":"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs."},{"words":["politician","believes","says","quite","surprised","taken","word"],"answer":"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."},{"words":["let","good","man","good","deeds","zeal","evil","man","does","bad","ones"],"answer":"Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones."},{"words":["observe"],"answer":"You see, but you do not observe."},{"words":["long","axiom","little","things","infinitely","important"],"answer":"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."},{"words":["case","respects","entirely","devoid"],"answer":"The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest."},{"words":["i","said","eliminated","impossible","remains","improbable","truth"],"answer":"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"},{"words":["mediocrity","knows","higher","talent","instantly","recognizes","genius"],"answer":"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."},{"words":["rate","i","convinced","god","does","play","dice"],"answer":"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice."},{"words":["unleashed","power","atom","changed","save","modes","thinking","drift","unparalleled","catastrophe"],"answer":"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."},{"words":["success","life","equals","x","plus","y","plus","z","work","x","y","play","z","keeping","mouth","shut"],"answer":"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. 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And so easy to build, too."},{"words":["far","discern","sole","purpose","human","existence","kindle","light","darkness","mere"],"answer":"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."},{"words":["love","rules","power","power","predominates","love","lacking","shadow"],"answer":"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. 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man."},{"words":["england","did","shall","brlie","proud","foot","conqueror"],"answer":"This England never did, nor never shall, <br>Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."},{"words":["royal","throne","kings","sceptred","isle","brthis","earth","majesty","seat","mars","brthis","eden","demiparadise","brthis","fortress","built","nature","bragainst","infection","hand","war","brthis","happy","breed","men","little","world","brthis","precious","stone","set","silver","sea","brwhich","serves","office","wall","bror","moat","defensive","house","bragainst","envy","happier","lands","brthis","blessed","plot","earth","realm","england"],"answer":"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, <br>This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, <br>This other Eden, demi-paradise, <br>This fortress built by Nature for herself <br>Against infection and the hand of war, <br>This happy breed of men, this little world, <br>This precious stone set in the silver sea, <br>Which serves it in the office of a wall <br>Or as a moat defensive to a house, <br>Against the envy of less happier lands,-- <br>This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."},{"words":["year","playing","holidays","brto","sport","tedious","work"],"answer":"If all the year were playing holidays, <br>To sport would be as tedious as to work."},{"words":["hath","eaten","house","home"],"answer":"He hath eaten me out of house and home."},{"words":["uneasy","lies","head","wears","crown"],"answer":"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."},{"words":["people","say","try"],"answer":"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."},{"words":["occasions","causes","wherefore","things"],"answer":"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things."},{"words":["gaudy","blabbing","remorseful","day","bris","crept","bosom","sea"],"answer":"The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day <br>Is crept into the bosom of the 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wherefore art thou Romeo?"},{"words":["good","night","good","night","parting","sweet","sorrow","brthat","i","shall","say","good","night","till","morrow"],"answer":"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, <br>That I shall say good night till it be morrow."},{"words":["man","fault","honesty"],"answer":"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his."},{"words":["seen","better","days"],"answer":"We have seen better days."},{"words":["beware","ides","march"],"answer":"Beware the ides of March."},{"words":["greek"],"answer":"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."},{"words":["cowards","die","times","deaths","brthe","valiant","taste","death","brof","wonders","i","heard","brit","strange","men","fear","brseeing","death","necessary","end","brwill","come","come"],"answer":"Cowards die many times before their deaths; <br>The valiant never taste of death but once. <br>Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, <br>It seems to me most strange that men should fear; <br>Seeing that death, a necessary end, <br>Will come when it will come."},{"words":["et","tu","brute"],"answer":"Et tu, Brute!"},{"words":["ages","brshall","lofty","scene","acted","brin","states","unborn","accents","unknown"],"answer":"How many ages hence <br>Shall this our lofty scene be acted over <br>In states unborn and accents yet unknown!"},{"words":["havoc","let","slip","dogs","war"],"answer":"Cry \"Havoc,\" and let slip the dogs of war."},{"words":["friends","romans","countrymen","lend","ears","bri","come","bury","caesar","praise","brthe","evil","men","lives","brthe","good","oft","interred","bones"],"answer":"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; <br>I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. <br>The evil that men do lives after them; <br>The good is oft interred with their bones."},{"words":["brutus","honourable","man","brso","honourable","men"],"answer":"For Brutus is an honourable man; <br>So are they all, all honourable 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Come, let me clutch thee. <br>I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. <br>Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible <br>To feeling as to sight? or art thou but <br>A dagger of the mind, a false creation, <br>Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"},{"words":["attempt","deed","brconfounds"],"answer":"The attempt and not the deed <br>Confounds us."},{"words":["double","double","toil","trouble","brfire","burn","cauldron","bubble"],"answer":"Double, double toil and trouble; <br>Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."},{"words":["pricking","thumbsbrsomething","wicked","way","comes","bropen","locks","brwhoever","knocks"],"answer":"By the pricking of my thumbs,<br>Something wicked this way comes. <br>Open, locks, <br>Whoever knocks!"},{"words":["damned","spot","i","say"],"answer":"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"},{"words":["little","kin","kind"],"answer":"A little more than kin, and less than kind."},{"words":["frailty","thy","woman"],"answer":"Frailty, thy name is woman!"},{"words":["man","bri","shall","look","like"],"answer":"He was a man, take him for all in all, <br>I shall not look upon his like again."},{"words":["clothes","make","man","naked","people","little","influence","society"],"answer":"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."},{"words":["love","truth","pardon","error"],"answer":"Love truth, and pardon error."},{"words":["borrower","lender","brfor","loan","oft","loses","friend","brand","borrowing","dulls","edge","husbandry","brthis","thine","self","true","brand","follow","night","day","brthou","canst","false","man"],"answer":"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; <br>For loan oft loses both itself and friend, <br>And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. <br>This above all: to thine own self be true, <br>And it must follow, as the night the day, <br>Thou canst not then be false to any man."},{"words":["mind","i","native","brand","manner","born","custom","brmore","honoured","breach","observance"],"answer":"But to my mind, though I am native here <br>And to the manner born, it is a custom <br>More honoured in the breach than the observance."},{"words":["rotten","state","denmark"],"answer":"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."},{"words":["leave","heaven","brand","thorns","bosom","lodge","brto","prick","sting"],"answer":"Leave her to heaven <br>And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, <br>To prick and sting her."},{"words":["man","business","desire","brsuch"],"answer":"Every man has business and desire, <br>Such as it is."},{"words":["things","heaven","earth","horatiobrthan","dreamt","philosophy"],"answer":"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,<br>Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."},{"words":["brevity","soul","wit"],"answer":"Brevity is the soul of wit."},{"words":["good","bad","thinking","makes"],"answer":"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."},{"words":["prefer","loss","wealth","dishonest","gain","vexes","time","bring","lasting","remorse"],"answer":"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse."},{"words":["piece","work","man","noble","reason","infinite","faculty","form","moving","express","admirable","action","like","angel","apprehension","like","god"],"answer":"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!"},{"words":["devil","hath","power","brto","assume","pleasing","shape"],"answer":"The devil hath power <br>To assume a pleasing shape."},{"words":["thou","chaste","ice","pure","snow","thou","shalt","escape","calumny","thee","nunnery"],"answer":"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."},{"words":["i","heard","paintings","god","given","face","make"],"answer":"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."},{"words":["o","woe","mebrto","seen","i","seen","i"],"answer":"O, woe is me,<br>To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"},{"words":["lady","doth","protest","methinks"],"answer":"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."},{"words":["words","fly","thoughts","remain","belowbrwords","thoughts","heaven"],"answer":"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:<br>Words without thoughts never to heaven go."},{"words":["i","cruel","kindbrthus","bad","begins","worse","remains"],"answer":"I must be cruel, only to be kind:<br>Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."},{"words":["artless","jealousy","guiltbrit","spills","fearing","spilt"],"answer":"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,<br>It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."},{"words":["know","know"],"answer":"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."},{"words":["hit","palpable","hit"],"answer":"A hit, a very palpable hit."},{"words":["rest","silence"],"answer":"The rest is silence."},{"words":["cracks","noble","heart","good","night","sweet","princebrand","flights","angels","sing","thee","thy","rest"],"answer":"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:<br>And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"},{"words":[],"answer":"Although the last, not least."},{"words":["minute","thinking","evil","thinking","good","instead","refuse","pander","morbid","misdeeds","pick","sorry","shake"],"answer":"Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. 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Perdition catch my soul,<br>But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, <br>Chaos is come again."},{"words":["speak","thy","thinkings","bras","thou","dost","ruminate","thy","worst","thoughts","brthe","worst","words"],"answer":"Speak to me as to thy thinkings, <br>As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts <br>The worst of words."},{"words":["yards","carriage","yards","horse","yards","elephant","distance","wicked","man","measured"],"answer":"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured."},{"words":["o","beware","lord","jealousybrit","greeneyed","monster","doth","mockbrthe","meat","feeds"],"answer":"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!<br>It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock<br>The meat it feeds on."},{"words":["i","understand","fury","wordsbrbut","words"],"answer":"I understand a fury in your words,<br>But not the words."},{"words":["salad","daysbrwhen","i","green","judgment"],"answer":"My salad days,<br>When I was green in judgment."},{"words":["small","greater","matters","way"],"answer":"Small to greater matters must give way."},{"words":["age","wither","custom","stalebrher","infinite","variety"],"answer":"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale<br>Her infinite variety."},{"words":["act","principle","action","safely","law","world"],"answer":"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."},{"words":["i","brimmortal","longings"],"answer":"I have <br>Immortal longings in me."},{"words":["game"],"answer":"The game is up."},{"words":["i","slept","wink"],"answer":"I have not slept one wink."},{"words":["farewell","thou","art","dear","possessing"],"answer":"Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing."},{"words":["let","marriage","true","minds","bradmit","impediments","love","love","brwhich","alters","alteration","finds"],"answer":"Let me not to the marriage of true minds <br>Admit impediments: love is not love <br>Which alters when it alteration finds."},{"words":["cursed","moves","bones"],"answer":"Cursed be he that moves my bones."},{"words":["i","learned","experiment","advances","confidently","direction","dreams","endeavors","live","life","imagined","meet","success","unexpected","common","hours","things","pass","invisible","boundary","new","universal","liberal","laws","begin","establish","old","laws","expanded","interpreted","favor","liberal","sense","live","license","higher","order","beings","proportion","simplifies","life","laws","universe","appear","complex","solitude","solitude","poverty","poverty","weakness","weakness","built","castles","air","work","need","lost","foundations"],"answer":"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."},{"words":["tomfoolery","computer","comes","tomfoolery","tomfoolery","having","passed","expensive","machine","enobled","dares","criticize"],"answer":"If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. 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Men will believe what they see."},{"words":["drew","circle","shut","br","heretic","rebel","thing","floutbr","love","i","wit","winbr","drew","circle","took"],"answer":"He drew a circle that shut me out --<br> Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.<br> But Love and I had the wit to win:<br> We drew a circle that took him in."},{"words":["depressing","conviction","hero"],"answer":"Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero."},{"words":["bare","requisites","living","reproducing","man","wants","leave","record","proof","really","existed","leaves","proof","wood","stone","lives","people","deep","desire","exists","boy","scribbles","wall","buddha","etches","image","race","mind","life","unreal","i","think","seriously","doubt","exist","trying","prove"],"answer":"After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do."},{"words":["choose","job","love","work","day","life"],"answer":"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."},{"words":["flatter","i","believe","critisize","i","like","ignore","i","forgive"],"answer":"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you."},{"words":["shall","cease","exploration","end","exploring","arrive","started","know","place","time"],"answer":"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started-- and know the place for the first time."},{"words":["paranoia","means","having","facts"],"answer":"Paranoia means having all the facts."},{"words":["right","gratify","people","astonish","rest"],"answer":"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."},{"words":["proven","shadow","doubt","miss","100","shots"],"answer":"It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take."},{"words":["inhabitants","underdeveloped","nations","victims","natural","disasters","people","happy","soybeans"],"answer":"Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans."},{"words":["hatred","does","cease","world","hating","hating","eternal","truth"],"answer":"Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth."},{"words":["i","believe","i","shallin","shape","otheralways","exist","inconveniences","human","life","liable","i","shall","object","new","edition","hoping","errata","corrected"],"answer":"I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected."},{"words":["say","wages","sin","death","taxes","just","tired","feeling","really"],"answer":"They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really."},{"words":["i","ashes","dust","i","spark","burn","brilliant","blaze","stifled","dryrot","i","superb","meteor","atom","magnificient","glow","sleepy","permanent","planetbr","proper","function","man","live","exist","i","shall","waste","days","trying","prolong","i","shall","use","time"],"answer":"I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.<br> The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."},{"words":["make","greater","mistake","did","little"],"answer":"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."},{"words":["i","i","seen"],"answer":"I am a part of all I have seen."},{"words":["best","man","best"],"answer":"To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him."},{"words":["computer","lets","make","mistakes","faster","invention","human","history","possible","exceptions","handguns","tequila"],"answer":"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."},{"words":["battle","mind","ronald","reagan","like","trench","warfare","world","war","i","fought","hard","barren","terrain"],"answer":"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain."},{"words":["gravitation","held","responsible","people","falling","love"],"answer":"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."},{"words":["i","think","agree","past"],"answer":"I think we agree, the past is over."},{"words":["person","bell","jar","blank","stopped","dead","baby","world","bad","dream"],"answer":"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."},{"words":["use","abuse","abstinence","excess","renders","man","happy"],"answer":"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."},{"words":["men","really","believe","lunatic","asylums"],"answer":"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."},{"words":["idea","freedom","presupposes","objective","moral","law","overarches","rulers","ruled","alike"],"answer":"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike."},{"words":["risk","going","far","possibly","far"],"answer":"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."},{"words":["face","sunshine","shadow"],"answer":"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."},{"words":["instant","gratification","takes","long"],"answer":"Instant gratification takes too long."},{"words":["change","outfit","outfit","change"],"answer":"You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both."},{"words":["work","curse","drinking","class"],"answer":"Work is the curse of the drinking class."},{"words":["common","sense","collection","prejudices","acquired","age","eighteen"],"answer":"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."},{"words":["set","hearts","let","examine","happy","possess"],"answer":"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."},{"words":["think","pains","heartbreaks","unprecedented","history","world","read","books","taught","things","tormented","things","connected","people","alive","alive"],"answer":"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive."},{"words":["love","endless","mystery","explain"],"answer":"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it."},{"words":["happens","means","insignificant"],"answer":"All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant."},{"words":["silent","bear","witness"],"answer":"The silent bear no witness against themselves."},{"words":["new","knowledge","valuable","commodity","earth","truth","work","richer"],"answer":"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. 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Keep in the sunlight."},{"words":["separate","spirit"],"answer":"We are not separate from spirit, we are in it."},{"words":["praise","come","kindness","leaves","debt"],"answer":"Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt."},{"words":["did","exchange","walkon","war","leading","role","cage"],"answer":"Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?"},{"words":["intelligent","fool","make","things","bigger","complex","","takes","touch","genius","","lot","courage","","opposite","direction"],"answer":"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."},{"words":["follow","path","leadgo","instead","path","leave","trail"],"answer":"Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."},{"words":["pessimist","discovered","secrets","stars","sailed","uncharted","land","opened","new","doorway","human","spirit"],"answer":"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."},{"words":["emancipate","mental","slavery","free","minds"],"answer":"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds."},{"words":["people","judge","size","feet","socks","match"],"answer":"People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match."},{"words":["hope","thing","feathersbr","perches","soulbr","sings","tunebr","wordsbr","stops"],"answer":"Hope is the thing with feathers<br> That perches in the soul.<br> And sings the tune<br> Without the words,<br> and never stops at all."},{"words":["machine","replace","human","spark","spirit","compassion","love","understanding"],"answer":"No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding."},{"words":["free","mind","soul","ready","free","ready","free","future","ready","makes","lives","worth","living"],"answer":"Everyone should free their mind and soul. 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A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm."},{"words":["knowledge","create","problems","ignorance","solve"],"answer":"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."},{"words":["world","tragedy","feel","comedy","think"],"answer":"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."},{"words":["people","i","distrust","want","improve","lives","course","action"],"answer":"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."},{"words":["world","governed","appearances","realities","fully","necessary","know","know"],"answer":"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."},{"words":["yes","divide","time","like","politics","equations","equations","far","important","politics","matter","present","concern","mathematical","equation","stands","forever"],"answer":"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."},{"words":["philosophers","say","great","deal","absolutely","necessary","science","far","naive","probably","wrong"],"answer":"Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong."},{"words":["i","child","prodigy","child","prodigy","child","knows","child","does","grows"],"answer":"I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up."},{"words":["live","newtonian","world","einsteinian","physics","ruled","frankenstein","logic"],"answer":"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic."},{"words":["lose","faith","humanity","humanity","ocean","drops","ocean","dirty","ocean","does","dirty"],"answer":"You must not lose faith in humanity. 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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."},{"words":["large","corporations","pervasive","fear","having","fun","computer","company","time","networks","help","alleviate","fear"],"answer":"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. 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"},{"words":["world","people","notion","satisfactory","future","fact","return","idealised","past"],"answer":"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."},{"words":["learn","rope","life","untying","knots"],"answer":"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots."},{"words":["secret","happiness","freedom","secret","freedom","courage"],"answer":"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage."},{"words":["wilderness","preservation","world"],"answer":"In wilderness is the preservation of the world."},{"words":["wellflavored","man","gift","fortune","write","read","comes","nature"],"answer":"To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature."},{"words":["relationships","trust","depend","willingness","look","interests","interests"],"answer":"Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others."},{"words":["important","trip","life","meeting","people","halfway"],"answer":"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."},{"words":["haughty","humble","humble","haughty"],"answer":"Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty."},{"words":["let","problem","solved","important","person","loved"],"answer":"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."},{"words":["attempt","silence","man","greatest","honor","bestow","means","recognize","superiority"],"answer":"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. 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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."},{"words":["ideals","like","stars","succeed","touching","hands","like","seafaring","man","ocean","desert","waters","choose","guides","following","reach","destiny"],"answer":"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny."},{"words":["spectacular","splendid","manifestation","life","language","","","","affection","genes","usefulness","usefulness","close","common","goal","nature","i","guess","finally","best","music"],"answer":"We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a \"common goal\" of nature as I can guess at. 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You will just keep growing."},{"words":["best","way","cheer","try","cheer"],"answer":"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."},{"words":["pass","word","ponder","case","different","people","read","poetry","meditate","literature","play","music","change","minds","reach","understanding","society","evolves","way","shouting","unique","capacity","unique","individual","human","beings","comprehend"],"answer":"We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."},{"words":["i","like","believe","people","long","run","going","promote","peace","governments","i","think","people","want","peace","days","governments","better","way","let"],"answer":"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."},{"words":["people","agree","i","feel","i","wrong"],"answer":"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."},{"words":["past","past","beginning"],"answer":"The past is but the past of a beginning."},{"words":["learn","fundamentals","game","stick","bandaid","remedies"],"answer":"Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. 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The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client."},{"words":["attacking","secret","dare","world","yields","beats","dare","succumb"],"answer":"Attacking is the only secret. 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For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger."},{"words":["moment","common","consent","pause","conscious","national","life","rejoice","recall","country","ask","country","return"],"answer":"It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return."},{"words":["believe","powerful","certainly","dangerous","human","attribute"],"answer":"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute."},{"words":["knowledge","knowhow","sterile","use","word","academic","pejorative","sense","identify","limitation"],"answer":"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word \"academic\" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."},{"words":["need","learn","work","i","mean","everybody","team","platform","division","component","individual","competitive","profit","recognition","contribution","winwin","basis"],"answer":"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis."},{"words":["quality","defined","know","quality"],"answer":"Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is."},{"words":["failed","","","man","great"],"answer":"He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great."},{"words":["continual","improvement","unending","journey"],"answer":"Continual improvement is an unending journey."},{"words":["say","live","long","chances","able","abide","restrictions","long","undependable","time","life","rich","possibilities","restrictions","placed"],"answer":"Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it."},{"words":["important","aim","defined","terms","activity","methods","relate","directly","life","better","","","","aim","clear","aim","include","plans","future","aim","value","judgment"],"answer":"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment."},{"words":["question","process","works","question","work"],"answer":"It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together."},{"words":["manage","effectively","focus","interactions","parts","behavior","taken","separately"],"answer":"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."},{"words":["precious","possession","financial","assets","precious","possession","people","working","carry","heads","ability","work"],"answer":"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. 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Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it."},{"words":["thou","shalt","raise","foundations","generations","thou","shalt","called","repairer","breach","restorer","paths","dwell"],"answer":"Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in."},{"words":["greatest","lesson","learn","past","","","freedom","core","successful","nation","world"],"answer":"The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world."},{"words":["faithful","exists","","make","indispensable"],"answer":"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable."},{"words":["process","creating","new","democratic","organs","government","power","beginning","greatest","responsibility","rests","broadcast","media"],"answer":"The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media."},{"words":["new","vision","development","emerging","development","peoplecentered","process","ultimate","goal","improvement","human","condition"],"answer":"A new vision of development is emerging. 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We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable."},{"words":["genius","percent","inspiration","ninetynine","percent","perspiration"],"answer":"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."},{"words":["happy"],"answer":"Happy is he who can give himself up."},{"words":["lead","people","gently","know","right"],"answer":"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."},{"words":["convinced","knows","story","surest","way","fail"],"answer":"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail."},{"words":["i","gotta"],"answer":"I gotta be me."},{"words":["words","invented","fully","explain","peaceful","aura","surrounds","communion","minds","thoughts"],"answer":"Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts."},{"words":["i","i","i","i","i","i","refuse","i"],"answer":"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."},{"words":["good","idea","ambitious","goals","want","good","terrible","mistake","let","drive","ambition","way","treating","people","kindness","decency","point","nice","feel","better"],"answer":"It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself."},{"words":["i","wish","i","wish","wealth","power","passionate","sense","potential","","eye","young","ardent","sees","possible","pleasure","disappoints","possibility"],"answer":"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. 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There are only so many tomorrows."},{"words":["life","compared","marathon","i","think","like","sprinter","long","stretches","hard","work","punctuated","brief","moments","given","opportunity","perform","best"],"answer":"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."},{"words":["smart"],"answer":"None of us is as smart as all of us."},{"words":["way","procure","insults","submit","man","meets","respect","exacts"],"answer":"The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts."},{"words":["world","extremely","interesting","joyful","soul"],"answer":"The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul."},{"words":["spend","lives","underachieving"],"answer":"We can spend our whole lives underachieving."},{"words":["great","discoveries","usually","obvious"],"answer":"The great discoveries are usually obvious."},{"words":["great","leaders","careers","failing","dramatically"],"answer":"Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically."},{"words":["selecting","right","person","right","job","largest","coaching"],"answer":"Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching."},{"words":["just","honest","essential","ingredient","executive","integrity"],"answer":"Just being honest is not enough. 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The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow."},{"words":["making","wrong","decision","understandable","refusing","search","continually","learning"],"answer":"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."},{"words":["human","power","compound","time","patience"],"answer":"All human power is a compound of time and patience."},{"words":["patience","ruler","persuaded","gentle","tongue","break","bone"],"answer":"Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone."},{"words":["teach","o","lord","disciplines","patience","wait","harder","work"],"answer":"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work."},{"words":["seek","ye","good","things","mind","rest","supplied","loss","felt"],"answer":"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."},{"words":["knowing","trees","i","understand","meaning","patience","knowing","grass","i","appreciate","persistence"],"answer":"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."},{"words":["child","lives","approval","learns","live"],"answer":"If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself."},{"words":["man","thought","distant","sorrow","near","hand"],"answer":"If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand"},{"words":["people","think","times","year","i","international","reputation","thinking","twice","week"],"answer":"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."},{"words":["great","omission","american","life","solitude","","","zone","time","space","free","outside","pressures","incinerator","spirit"],"answer":"The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."},{"words":["dreaming","permits","quietly","safely","insane","night","lives"],"answer":"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."},{"words":["object","life","majority","escape","finding","oneself","ranks","insane"],"answer":"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."},{"words":["hire","promote","image","foolish","replicate","strength","idiotic","replicate","weakness","essential","employ","trust","reward","perspective","ability","judgment","radically","different","rare","requires","uncommon","humility","tolerance","wisdom"],"answer":"Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom."},{"words":["leadership","instinct","born","backbone","develop","funny","bone","wishbone"],"answer":"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."},{"words":["care","make","intellect","god","course","powerful","muscles","personality"],"answer":"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."},{"words":["persistence","twin","sister","excellence","matter","quality","matter","time"],"answer":"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."},{"words":["moment","childhood","door","opens","lets","future"],"answer":"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."},{"words":["speed","limits","road","excellence"],"answer":"There are no speed limits on the road to excellence."},{"words":["today","day","mountain","waiting","","","way"],"answer":"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way."},{"words":["methods","predicting","future","example","read","horoscopes","tea","leaves","tarot","cards","crystal","balls","collectively","methods","known","nutty","methods","wellresearched","facts","sophisticated","computer","models","commonly","referred","complete","waste","time"],"answer":"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as \"nutty methods.\" Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as \"a complete waste of time.\""},{"words":["truer","message","man","does","gives"],"answer":"If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."},{"words":["precious","gift","offer","presence","mindfulness","embraces","love","bloom","like","flowers"],"answer":"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."},{"words":["stand","great","mind","leave","favorable","impression","little","mind","leave","favorable","impression"],"answer":"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself."},{"words":["angry","depressed","creativity","misplaced","power","allowed","determine","worth","angry","undervalued"],"answer":"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued."},{"words":["spiritual","meaning","love","measured","love","meant","heal","love","meant","renew","love","meant","bring","closer","god"],"answer":"The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God."},{"words":["foolish","consistency","hobgoblin","little","minds","adored","little","statesmen","philosophers","divines"],"answer":"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."},{"words":["war","kills","men","men","deplore","loss","war","crushes","bad","principles","tyrants","saves","societies"],"answer":"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."},{"words":["things","impossible","diligence","skill"],"answer":"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."},{"words":["great","genius","existed","touch","madness"],"answer":"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."},{"words":["great","wits","sure","madness","near","allied","partitions","bounds","divide"],"answer":"Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide."},{"words":["great","genius","free","tincture","madness"],"answer":"There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness."},{"words":["education","receive","pass","possess"],"answer":"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."},{"words":["saw","matters","little","profession","religion","irreligion","man","make","provided","follows","charitable","inconsistency","insisting","bitter","end","uncompromisingness","dogma","held","dogma","want","dogma","danger","lies"],"answer":"Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies."},{"words":["positive","attitude","solve","problems","annoy","people","make","worth","effort"],"answer":"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."},{"words":["menial","jobs","menial","attitudes"],"answer":"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."},{"words":["insanity","destroys","reason","wit"],"answer":"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit."},{"words":["nature","cruel","pitilessly","indifferent","hardest","lessons","humans","learn","admit","things","good","evil","cruel","kind","simply","callous","","indifferent","suffering","lacking","purpose"],"answer":"Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose."},{"words":["greatest","discovery","generation","human","alter","life","altering","attitude"],"answer":"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."},{"words":["remember","mad","mysteries","disappear","life","stands","explained"],"answer":"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."},{"words":["visit","madhouse","disordered","minds","planet","mental","institution","universe"],"answer":"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."},{"words":["insanity","logic","accurate","mind","overtaxed"],"answer":"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed."},{"words":["thing","life","taught","interested","look","new","interests","come","genuinely","interested","thing","lead"],"answer":"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. 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I woke and walked my old one."},{"words":["trust","know","think"],"answer":"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."},{"words":["i","ready","learn","i","like","taught"],"answer":"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."},{"words":["liberty","unhampered","translation","act"],"answer":"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"},{"words":["long","world","shall","wrongs","man","objected","man","rebelled","wrongs","forever"],"answer":"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."},{"words":["glory","gives","dreamed"],"answer":"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."},{"words":["govern","choose","disadvantages"],"answer":"To govern is always to choose among disadvantages."},{"words":["look","thyself","source","strength","spring","thou","wilt","look"],"answer":"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there."},{"words":["i","want","live","life","nights","regrets"],"answer":"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."},{"words":["seek","establish","systems","government","based","regimentation","human","beings","handful","individual","rulers","","","new","order","new","order"],"answer":"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."},{"words":["believe","universe","provide"],"answer":"You have to believe that the universe will provide."},{"words":["fears","share","inspiration"],"answer":"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others."},{"words":["memory","greatest","artists","effaces","mind","unnecessary"],"answer":"Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary."},{"words":["day","happen","know","wednesday","starts","sounding","like","sunday","seriously","wrong"],"answer":"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere."},{"words":["accomplish","great","things","act","dream","plan","believe"],"answer":"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."},{"words":["fight","battle","win"],"answer":"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."},{"words":["experience","marvelous","thing","enables","recognize","mistake","make"],"answer":"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."},{"words":["said","lot","said"],"answer":"After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done."},{"words":["attribute","malice","adequately","explained","stupidity"],"answer":"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."},{"words":["speak","harshly","spoken","answer","thee","way","angry","speech","painful","blows","blows","touch","thee"],"answer":"Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee."},{"words":["contradicts","opinion","uncongenial","really","tone","conveyed"],"answer":"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."},{"words":["useless","doing","efficiently"],"answer":"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."},{"words":["behooves","man","remember","work","critic","altogether","secondary","importance","end","progress","accomplished","man","does","things"],"answer":"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."},{"words":["men","oppose","thing","merely","agency","planning","planned","dislike"],"answer":"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."},{"words":["witty","saying","proves"],"answer":"A witty saying proves nothing."},{"words":["general","aware","minds","best"],"answer":"In general we are least aware of what our minds do best."},{"words":["friend","understanding","virtue","equally","confide","opinion","value","justness","sincerity"],"answer":"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."},{"words":["difficulty","great","die","friend","friend","worth","dying"],"answer":"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."},{"words":["care","health","lay","money","make","roof","tight","clothing","sufficient","provides","wisely","shall","wanting","best","property","","friends"],"answer":"We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?"},{"words":["severest","tests","friendship","tell","friend","faults","love","man","bear","stain","speak","painful","truth","loving","words","friendship"],"answer":"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."},{"words":["genius","bend","creek","bright","water","gathered","mirrors","trees","sky","banks","just","does","scenery","talent","fine","mirror","silver","frame","owner","engraved"],"answer":"Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back."},{"words":["talk","genius","baffled","genius","master","man","genius","does","talent","does"],"answer":"Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."},{"words":["talent","finds","models","methods","ends","society","exists","exhibition","goes","soul","power","work","genius","end","draws","means","style","architecture"],"answer":"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within."},{"words":["jump","joy","beware","moves","ground","beneath","feet"],"answer":"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."},{"words":["onestory","intellects","twostory","intellects","threestory","intellects","skylights","fact","collectors","aim","facts","onestory","men","twostory","men","compare","reason","generalize","using","labors","fact","collectors","threestory","men","idealize","imagine","predict","best","illuminations","come","skylight"],"answer":"There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight."},{"words":["genius","year","real","geniuses","simply","bright","ideas","closer"],"answer":"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."},{"words":["man","responsibility","power"],"answer":"Man has responsibility, not power."},{"words":["surest","hindrance","success","high","standard","refinement","minds","high","opinion","judgment","public","determined","satisfied","short","perfection"],"answer":"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others."},{"words":["aspirations","possibilities"],"answer":"Our aspirations are our possibilities."},{"words":["good"],"answer":"Whatever you are, be a good one."},{"words":["judge","thyself","judgment","sincerity","thou","judge","judgment","charity"],"answer":"Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity."},{"words":["good","end","journey","journey","matters","end"],"answer":"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."},{"words":["live","","work","right"],"answer":"You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough."},{"words":["eyes","stars","feet","ground"],"answer":"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."},{"words":[],"answer":"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."},{"words":["youth","regarded","respect","know","future","equal","present"],"answer":"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?"},{"words":["weak","cruel","gentleness","expected","strong"],"answer":"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."},{"words":["hours","spent","convincing","i","right","reason","fear","i","wrong"],"answer":"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"},{"words":["spent","life","best","enjoyed","god","care","enjoy","good"],"answer":"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."},{"words":["america","great","good","america","ceases","good","america","cease","great"],"answer":"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."},{"words":["ideal","life","blood","sad","day","man","contented","thoughts","thinking","deeds","doing","","forever","beating","doors","soul","great","desire","larger","knows","meant"],"answer":"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do."},{"words":["wait","judgment","takes","place","day"],"answer":"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day."},{"words":["sole","contribution","sum","things"],"answer":"Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself."},{"words":["education","admirable","thing","remember","time","time","worth","knowing","taught"],"answer":"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."},{"words":["i","said","changed","understood","did"],"answer":"What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did."},{"words":["management","doing","things","right","leadership","doing","right","things"],"answer":"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."},{"words":["gutter","looking","stars"],"answer":"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."},{"words":["stranger","passing","meet","desire","speak","speak","i","speak"],"answer":"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"},{"words":["i","prepared","die","cause","i","prepared","kill"],"answer":"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."},{"words":["guard","treasure","kindness","know","hesitation","lose","regret","acquire","meanness"],"answer":"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."},{"words":["arms","instruments","ill","omen","","","","compelled","use","best","relish","glory","victory","glorify","despite","exult","killing","men","","","","great","numbers","people","killed","weep","sorrow","victorious","war","observe","mourning","rites"],"answer":"Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites."},{"words":["rare","person","weigh","faults","putting","thumb","scales"],"answer":"Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales."},{"words":["error","error","discovers","entire","truth"],"answer":"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."},{"words":["objectionable","dangerous","extremists","extreme","intolerant","evil","say","cause","say","opponents"],"answer":"What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."},{"words":["feel","growing","work","life","broadening","deepening","task","perpetual","tonic","place"],"answer":"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."},{"words":["fact","remains","overwhelming","majority","people","wealthy","thanks","work","profoundly","absorbing","long","term","study","people","eventually","wealthy","clearly","reveals","luck","arose","accidental","dedication","arena","enjoyed"],"answer":"The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their \"luck\" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed."},{"words":["wait","extraordinary","circumstances","good","try","use","ordinary","situations"],"answer":"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations."},{"words":["man","does","work","love","work","money","likely","make","money","fun","life"],"answer":"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life."},{"words":["success","highest","noblest","form","calls","peace","mind","enjoyment","happiness","comes","man","work","likes","best"],"answer":"Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best."},{"words":["basic","principles","making","keeping","peace","nations","","","political","military","moral","spiritual","confrontations","honest","attempt","reconciliation","differences","resorting","combat"],"answer":"One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat."},{"words":["test","progress","add","abundance","provide","little"],"answer":"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."},{"words":["socalled","reasoning","consists","finding","arguments","going","believing"],"answer":"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."},{"words":["beautifier","complexion","form","like","wish","scatter","joy","pain"],"answer":"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."},{"words":["diversity","true","thing","common","celebrate","day"],"answer":"Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. 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At night, the ice weasels come."},{"words":["specialinterest","publications","realize","attracting","advertising","readers","make","profit","special"],"answer":"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."},{"words":["animal","jump","diningroom","furniture","unless","absolutely","certain","hold","conversation"],"answer":"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."},{"words":["favorite","animal","steak"],"answer":"My favorite animal is steak."},{"words":["great","people","talk","ideas","average","people","talk","things","small","people","talk","wine"],"answer":"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."},{"words":["real","life","i","assure","thing","algebra"],"answer":"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."},{"words":["dwell","thy","weariness","thy","strength","shall","according","measure","thy","desire"],"answer":"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire."},{"words":["able","shadows","lies","culture","understood","let","believed","masses"],"answer":"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows  and lies of their culture will never be understood,  let alone believed, by the masses."},{"words":["knowledge","god","far","love"],"answer":"The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of  Him."},{"words":["mystery","love","greater","mystery","death"],"answer":"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of  death."},{"words":["nature","imperialism","turn","humans","beasts"],"answer":"...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to  turn humans into beasts."},{"words":["writers","read","seen","heard"],"answer":"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."},{"words":["thing","funny","search","carefully","hidden","truth"],"answer":"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."},{"words":["humor","test","gravity","gravity","humor","subject","bear","raillery","suspicious","jest","bear","examination","false","wit"],"answer":"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."},{"words":["defining","analyzing","humor","pastime","humorless","people"],"answer":"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people."},{"words":["people","talk","listen","completely","people","listen"],"answer":"When people talk, listen completely. 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I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."},{"words":["misquotation","fact","pride","privilege","learned","widely","read","man","quotes","accurately","obvious","reason","read","widely"],"answer":"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."},{"words":["quotation","","writer","expresses","words","used","meaning","better","beautiful","witty","expects","touch","cord","association","reader","wishes","learned","read","quotations","motive","invariably","illadvised","discerning","reader","detects","contemptuous","undiscerning","impressed","time","repelled","pretentious","quotations","surest","road","tedium"],"answer":"Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium."},{"words":["renown","scraps","learning","dote","brand","think","grow","immortal","quote"],"answer":"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, <br>And think they grow immortal as they quote."},{"words":["wise","reader","quote","wisely"],"answer":"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."},{"words":["originator","good","sentence","quoter"],"answer":"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."},{"words":["wit","invention","applying","rightly","thought","finds","book","author","thought"],"answer":"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."},{"words":["i","love","quotations","joy","thoughts","beautifully","expressed","authority","recognized","wiser","oneself"],"answer":"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."},{"words":["quotation","contributes","stability","enlargement","language"],"answer":"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."},{"words":["wrapped","quotations","beggar","enfold","purple","emperors"],"answer":"He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."},{"words":["quotation","speech","article","book","like","rifle","hands","infantryman","speaks","authority"],"answer":"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. 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The best argument is an undeniably good book."},{"words":["higher","buildings","lower","morals"],"answer":"The higher the buildings, the lower the morals."},{"words":["television","appearing","","looking"],"answer":"Television is for appearing on - not for looking at."},{"words":["writer","person","writing","difficult","people"],"answer":"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."},{"words":["write","want","write"],"answer":"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."},{"words":["i","believe","scissors","i","pencil"],"answer":"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."},{"words":["i","working","proof","poems","morning","took","comma","afternoon","i"],"answer":"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."},{"words":["rules","writing","novel","unfortunately","knows"],"answer":"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."},{"words":["pray","loneliness","spur","finding","live","great","die"],"answer":"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."},{"words":["inspiration","wonderful","happens","writer","develop","approach","rest","time","wait","simply","long"],"answer":"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."},{"words":["method","utmost","trouble","right","thing","say","say","utmost","levity"],"answer":"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."},{"words":["lifetime","happiness","man","alive","bear","hell","earth"],"answer":"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."},{"words":["things","man","ashamed","respectable"],"answer":"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."},{"words":["drama","life","dull","bits","cut"],"answer":"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."},{"words":["hold","lightly","let","lightly","great","secrets","felicity","love"],"answer":"Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love."},{"words":["important","scientific","revolutions","include","common","feature","dethronement","human","arrogance","pedestal","previous","convictions","centrality","cosmos"],"answer":"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."},{"words":["erroneous","stories","think","know","best","","scrutinize","question"],"answer":"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."},{"words":["good","friend","tell","matter","minute","good","friend","telling"],"answer":"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. 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Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."},{"words":["government","consists","gang","men","exactly","like","taking","special","talent","business","government","talent","getting","holding","office"],"answer":"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office."},{"words":["danger","men","maxim","free","government","ought","trust","man","living","power","endanger","public","liberty"],"answer":"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."},{"words":["religion","good","people","doing","good","things","evil","people","doing","evil","things","good","people","evil","things","takes","religion"],"answer":"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."},{"words":["faith","copout","way","accept","assertion","faith","conceding"],"answer":"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can"},{"words":["make","believe","absurdities","make","commit","atrocities"],"answer":"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."},{"words":["real","seeker","truth","necessary","life","doubt","far","possible","things"],"answer":"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."},{"words":["i","wonder","dogs","think","poodles","members","weird","religious","cult"],"answer":"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."},{"words":["let","grace","goodness","principal","loadstone","thy","affections","love","hath","ends","end","founded","true","virtue","continue"],"answer":"Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue."},{"words":["ostentatious","man","relate","blunder","absurdity","committed","debarred","talking","dear","person"],"answer":"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."},{"words":["smaller","mind","greater","conceit"],"answer":"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."},{"words":["discover","center","universe","lot","people","disappointed","discover"],"answer":"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."},{"words":["world","tolerates","conceit","successful","anybody"],"answer":"The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else."},{"words":["greatest","faults","i","say","conscious"],"answer":"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."},{"words":["wit","makes","fun","persons","satirist","makes","fun","world","humorist","makes","fun"],"answer":"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."},{"words":["service","love","beautiful","thing","want","fear","let","love","free","love","truly"],"answer":"May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is."},{"words":["men","pursue","pleasure","breathless","haste","hurry","past",""],"answer":"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste  that they hurry past it.  "},{"words":["dog","acts","viciously","assume","reason","poor","treatment","training","owner","person","acts","criminally","look","explanation","brain","blood","urine","psychiatrists","begin","testifying","incompetence","schizophrenic","pit","bulls"],"answer":"When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason  is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a  person acts criminally we look for the explanation  in his brain, blood, and urine. When will  psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence  of schizophrenic pit bulls?"},{"words":["headline","reads","docs","say","patients","make","prescribe","useless","antibiotics","puts","physician","roughly","predicament","serial","killer","says","stop","i","kill","says","stop","i","prescribe"],"answer":"The headline reads, \"Docs say patients make  them prescribe useless antibiotics.\" This puts a  physician in roughly the same predicament as a  serial killer. The latter says, \"Stop me before I kill  again, while the former says, \"Stop me before I  prescribe again.\""},{"words":["genealogy","based","obviously","silly","idea","thing","bastard",""],"answer":"Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that  there is no such thing as a bastard. "},{"words":["lowered","banner","endeavour"],"answer":"Never for me the lowered banner, never the last  endeavour."},{"words":["run","away","let","seek","come","expected"],"answer":"Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will  come when least expected."},{"words":["i","human","human","strange"],"answer":"I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me."},{"words":["reason","good","books","written","people","write","know"],"answer":"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."},{"words":["silence","hardest","arguments","refute"],"answer":"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."},{"words":["confronted","insurmountable","opportunities"],"answer":"We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities."},{"words":["success","usually","comes","busy","looking"],"answer":"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."},{"words":["reality","merely","illusion","albeit","persistent"],"answer":"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."},{"words":["talks","constantly","god","insist","god"],"answer":"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."},{"words":["solomon","said","time","place","encountered","problem","parking","automobile"],"answer":"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile."},{"words":["little","learning","dangerous","thing","lot","ignorance","just","bad"],"answer":"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."},{"words":["fine","quotation","diamond","finger","man","wit","pebble","hand","fool"],"answer":"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool."},{"words":["short","saying","oft","contains","wisdom"],"answer":"A short saying oft contains much wisdom."},{"words":["epigram","dwarfish","body","brevity","wit","soul"],"answer":"What is an epigram? 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You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."},{"words":["reason","bigot","fool","dares","slave"],"answer":"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."},{"words":["dangerous","drug","reality","unendurable"],"answer":"Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable."},{"words":["problem","god","gives","men","brain","penis","blood","run","time",""],"answer":"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a  penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. "},{"words":["men","like","nails","lose","usefulness","lose","direction","begin","bend",""],"answer":"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose  direction and begin to bend. "},{"words":["mother","saw","irony","calling","sonofa","bitch"],"answer":"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a- bitch."},{"words":["consider","postage","stamp","usefulness","consists","ability","stick","thing","till","gets"],"answer":"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in  the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."},{"words":["perseverance","hard","work","tired","doing","hard","work","did"],"answer":"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get  tired of doing the hard work you already did."},{"words":["tell","people","things","tell","surprise","ingenuity"],"answer":"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."},{"words":["weenjoy","comfort","opinion","discomfort","thought"],"answer":"Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without  the discomfort of thought."},{"words":["thought","original","uttered","times"],"answer":"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."},{"words":["opposite","religious","fanatic","fanatical","atheist","gentle","cynic","cares","god"],"answer":"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."},{"words":["pleasure","having","fun","having","lots","doing"],"answer":"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."},{"words":["living","hell","best","revenge"],"answer":"Living hell is the best revenge."},{"words":["things","worse","instance","ugly","work","post","office"],"answer":"Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office."},{"words":["world","round","point"],"answer":"The world is round; it has no point."},{"words":["girls","just","want","funds"],"answer":"Girls just want to have funds."},{"words":["obstacles","improvement","race","indiscriminate","charity"],"answer":"One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity."},{"words":["drive","thy","business","drive","thee"],"answer":"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."},{"words":["underestimate","stupidity","general","public"],"answer":"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."},{"words":["inspires","forgiveness","quite","like","revenge"],"answer":"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."},{"words":["real","man","smiles","trouble","gathers","strength","distress","grows","brave","reflection"],"answer":"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."},{"words":["thing","moderately","good","good","ought","moderation","temper","virtue","moderation","principle","vice"],"answer":"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."},{"words":["difference","does","make","dead","orphans","homeless","mad","destruction","wrought","totalitarianism","holy","liberty","democracy"],"answer":"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"},{"words":["absolutely","inevitability","long","willingness","contemplate","happening"],"answer":"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening."},{"words":["eat","live","toad","thing","morning","worse","happen","rest","day"],"answer":"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."},{"words":["train","fig","tree","way","old","sit","shade"],"answer":"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."},{"words":["gods","wish","punish","answer","prayers"],"answer":"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."},{"words":["i","regret","i","life","lose","country"],"answer":"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."},{"words":["turned","numerous","publishers","decided","write","posterity"],"answer":"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."},{"words":["country","right","wrong","thing","patriot","think","saying","desperate","case","like","saying","mother","drunk","sober"],"answer":"\"My country, right or wrong,\" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, \"My mother, drunk or sober.\""},{"words":["i","abroad","i","make","rule","criticize","attack","government","country","i","make","lost","time","i","come","home"],"answer":"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. 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But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."},{"words":["really","work","unless","doing"],"answer":"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."},{"words":["passion","effectually","robs","mind","powers","acting","reasoning","fear"],"answer":"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."},{"words":["i","contradict","myselfbr","i","contradict","myselfbr","i","large","i","contain","multitudes"],"answer":"Do I contradict myself?<br> Very well then I contradict myself,<br> (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"},{"words":["bed","mad","stay","fight"],"answer":"Never go to bed mad. 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For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars."},{"words":["mathematics","till"],"answer":"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."},{"words":["truth","conclusions","physical","science","observation","supreme","court","appeal","does","follow","item","confidently","accept","physical","knowledge","actually","certified","court","confidence","certified","court","submitted","does","follow","item","physical","knowledge","form","submitted","court","specify","impracticable","carry","observational","procedure","decide","true","clearly","statement","tested","observation","unless","assertion","results","observation","item","physical","knowledge","assertion","result","carrying","specified","observational","procedure"],"answer":"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure."},{"words":["sanity","madness","good","use"],"answer":"Sanity is a madness put to good use."},{"words":["hero","bore"],"answer":"Every hero becomes a bore at last."},{"words":["line","life","misfortunes","time","properly","attend","pecuniary","monetary","matters","want","attention","matters","impeded","progress","science","genius"],"answer":"Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself."},{"words":["remember","past","condemned","repeat"],"answer":"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."},{"words":["progress","far","consisting","change","depends","retentiveness","change","absolute","remains","improve","direction","set","possible","improvement","experience","retained","savages","infancy","perpetual","remember","past","condemned","repeat","stage","life","mind","frivolous","easily","distracted","misses","progress","failing","consecutiveness","persistence","condition","children","barbarians","instinct","learned","experience",""],"answer":"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. "},{"words":["music","essentially","useless","life"],"answer":"Music is essentially useless, as life is."},{"words":["advertising","modern","substitute","argument","function","make","worse","appear","better"],"answer":"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."},{"words":["best","names"],"answer":"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."},{"words":["age","particularly","interesting","subject","old","live","long"],"answer":"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."},{"words":["modern","war","decimated","country","spawned","millions","bureaucrats","fatten","shortages","thrive","trouble","peace","offer","opportunities","exercising","petty","tyrannies","using","red","tape","regiment","individual","making","life","generally","unpleasant"],"answer":"Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant."},{"words":["make","save"],"answer":"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."},{"words":["government","great","fiction","everybody","endeavors","live","expense","everybody"],"answer":"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."},{"words":["successful","innovators","recognize","discovery","great","ideas","come","looking","thing","observing","different"],"answer":"Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different."},{"words":["just","i","shall","select","ship","i","voyage","house","i","propose","residence","i","shall","choose","death","i","depart","life",""],"answer":"\"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. \""},{"words":["i","base","fashion","sense","itches"],"answer":"I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches."},{"words":["gentlemen","embark","course","studies","occupy","years","form","noble","adventure","i","like","remind","important","point","learn","course","studies","slightest","possible","use","life","save","work","hard","intelligently","able","detect","man","talking","rot","view","main","sole","purpose","education"],"answer":"Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education."},{"words":["nationalism","infantile","disease","measles","mankind"],"answer":"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."},{"words":["world","hated","believed","wicked","conscience","approved","absolved","guilt","friends"],"answer":"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."},{"words":["stupid","powerful","force","alternatives"],"answer":"The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives."},{"words":["art","living","easily","money","pitch","scale","living","degree","means"],"answer":"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means."},{"words":["years","washington","i","long","realism","sincerity","hollywood"],"answer":"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."},{"words":["power","tends","corrupt","absolute","power","corrupts","absolutely"],"answer":"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."},{"words":["end","excuses","evil"],"answer":"The end excuses any evil."},{"words":["end","passes","judgement","gone"],"answer":"The end always passes judgement on what has gone before."},{"words":["result","justifies","deed","exitus","acta","probat"],"answer":"The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)"},{"words":["line","adopted","strong","men","controversy","justifying","means","end"],"answer":"The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end."},{"words":["ends","justify","means"],"answer":"The ends must justify the means."},{"words":["sign","corruption","society","alive","end","justifies","means"],"answer":"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."},{"words":["world","safe","democracy"],"answer":"The world must be made safe for democracy."},{"words":["men","generally","idle","ready","satisfy","intimidate","industry","calling","impossible","difficult"],"answer":"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."},{"words":["believe","war","smooth","easy","embarks","strange","voyage","measure","tides","hurricanes","encounter","statesman","yields","war","fever","realize","signal","given","longer","master","policy","slave","unforeseeable","uncontrollable","events"],"answer":"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."},{"words":["tooth","fairy","teaches","children","sell","body","parts","money"],"answer":"The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money."},{"words":["geography","just","physics","slowed","couple","trees","stuck"],"answer":"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it."},{"words":["bad","law","worst","sort","tyranny"],"answer":"Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny."},{"words":["think","run","debt","power","liberty"],"answer":"Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty."},{"words":["interprets","defines","rights","controls","destiny"],"answer":"Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny."},{"words":["moral","cheat","life","aim","morality","simply","good","good"],"answer":"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."},{"words":["come","prohibiting","aught","likely","prohibited","truth"],"answer":"If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself."},{"words":["government","reason","eloquence","force","like","dangerous","servant","fearful","master"],"answer":"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master."},{"words":["adam","eve","advantages","principle","escaped","teething"],"answer":"Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething."},{"words":["providence","protects","children","idiots","i","know","i","tested"],"answer":"Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it."},{"words":["pity","fools","speak","wisely","wise","men","foolishly"],"answer":"The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly."},{"words":["profitable","thing","wise","foolish"],"answer":"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."},{"words":["larger","island","knowledge","longer","shoreline","mystery"],"answer":"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery."},{"words":["morals","make","dreary","depend","","wrong"],"answer":"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong."},{"words":["knowing","important","knowing"],"answer":"Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do."},{"words":["genius","ability","effect","mind"],"answer":"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."},{"words":["anxiety","paid","trouble"],"answer":"Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due."},{"words":["misdeeds","british","rule","india","history","look","act","depriving","nation","arms","blackest"],"answer":"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."},{"words":["i","banish","fear","words","lead"],"answer":"I banish fear with two words: you lead."},{"words":["quality","accident"],"answer":"Quality is never an accident."},{"words":["jenny","replied","bitterness","surprized","judicious","person","observed","tranquillity","bore","affronts","chastity","patience","tired","virtue","apt","fatigued","exercise"],"answer":"Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise."},{"words":["people","parents","warned"],"answer":"We are the people our parents warned us about."},{"words":["music","bath","twice","week","seasons","soul","water","bath","body"],"answer":"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."},{"words":["indecision","problem"],"answer":"Indecision may or may not be my problem."},{"words":["does","sharp","eyes","sun","moon","does","sharp","ears","hear","thunderclap","wisdom","obvious","subtle","notice","hidden","victorious"],"answer":"It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious."},{"words":["procedure","learning","write","learn","think"],"answer":"There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think."},{"words":["love","identify"],"answer":"To love someone is to identify with them."},{"words":["strong","tendernessbr","tender","true","strength"],"answer":"There is nothing as strong as tenderness,<br> And nothing as tender as true strength."},{"words":["wisdom","comes","experience","experience","comes","foolishness"],"answer":"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."},{"words":["vigorous","writing","concise","sentence","contain","unnecessary","words","paragraph","unnecessary","sentences","reason","drawing","unnecessary","lines","machine","unnecessary","parts","requires","writer","make","sentences","short","avoid","treat","subjects","outline","word","tell"],"answer":"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."},{"words":["condemn","man","think","act","fast","time","things","today"],"answer":"Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today."},{"words":["important","thing","father","children","love","mother"],"answer":"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."},{"words":["live","season","passes","breathe","air","drink","drink","taste","fruit","resign","influences"],"answer":"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."},{"words":["education","","ability","quote","shakespeare","crediting","bible"],"answer":"Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible."},{"words":["music","silence","combine","strongly","music","silence","silence","music"],"answer":"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."},{"words":["eternity","sea","mingled","sun"],"answer":"Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun."},{"words":["america","libraries","tears"],"answer":"America, why are your libraries full of tears?"},{"words":["discernable","eye","spirit","brilliant","obscure","man","formidible","complex","mysterious","infinite","prospect","greater","sea","sky","prospect","greater","sky","human","soul"],"answer":"Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."},{"words":["silence","perfect","expression","scorn"],"answer":"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."},{"words":["i","know","i","appear","world","i","like","boy","playing","seashore","diverting","finding","smoother","pebble","prettier","shell","ordinary","whilst","great","ocean","lay","undiscovered"],"answer":"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me."},{"words":["duck"],"answer":"Why a duck?"},{"words":["idea","agreeable","person","person","agrees"],"answer":"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."},{"words":["careful","victories","carry","seed","future","defeats"],"answer":"Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats."},{"words":["mightiest","weapons","truth","knows"],"answer":"The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you"},{"words":["travel","life","aspect","dream","outside","normal","peopled","characters","seen","probability","brings","occasional","homesickness","loneliness","pangs","longing","like","vikings","gone","world","adventure","home","home","return"],"answer":"Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return."},{"words":["critic","counts","points","strong","man","stumbled","doer","deeds","better","credit","belongs","man","actually","arena","face","marred","sweat","dust","blood","strives","valiantly","errs","comes","short","knows","great","enthusiasms","great","devotions","spends","worthy","cause","fails","fails","daring","greatly","place","shall","cold","timid","souls","know","victory","defeat"],"answer":"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."},{"words":["reasonable","men","i","reason","humane","men","i","plead","tyrants","i","quarter","waste","arguments","certainly","lost"],"answer":"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."},{"words":["life","imitates","art","art","imitates","life"],"answer":"Life imitates art more than art imitates life."},{"words":["sin","stupidity"],"answer":"There is no sin except stupidity."},{"words":["eduaction","admirable","thing","remember","time","time","worth","knowing","taught"],"answer":"Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."},{"words":["know","everybody","ignorant","different","subjects"],"answer":"You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."},{"words":["proper","basis","marriage","mutual","misunderstanding"],"answer":"The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding."},{"words":["art","intense","form","individualism","world","known"],"answer":"Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known."},{"words":["imagination","quality","given","man","compensate","sense","humaor","provided","console"],"answer":"Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is."},{"words":["wallpaper","i","fighting","duel","death"],"answer":"My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go."},{"words":["critics","disagree","artist","accord"],"answer":"When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself."},{"words":["natural","simply","pose"],"answer":"Being natural is simply a pose."},{"words":["cure","soul","senses","just","cure","senses","soul"],"answer":"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."},{"words":["sin","real","colour","element","left","modern","life"],"answer":"Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life."},{"words":["great","misunderstood"],"answer":"To be great is to be misunderstood."},{"words":["reason","kids","crazy","face","responsibility","bringing"],"answer":"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up."},{"words":["sacred","integrity","mind"],"answer":"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."},{"words":["i","feel","sorry","people","drink","wake","morning","good","going","feel","day"],"answer":"I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day."},{"words":["drama","imagination","limited","logic","mathematics","logic","limited","imagination"],"answer":"Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination."},{"words":["power","means","end","does","establish","dictatorship","order","safeguard","revolution","makes","revolution","order","establish","dictatorship","object","persecution","persecution","object","torture","torture","object","power","power"],"answer":"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."},{"words":["prima","la","musica","poi","le","parole","music","words"],"answer":"Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words)"},{"words":["better","violent","violence","hearts","cloak","nonviolence","cover","impotence"],"answer":"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."},{"words":["i","know","i","man","dreaming","i","butterfly","i","butterfly","dreaming","i","man"],"answer":"I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."},{"words":["civilizations","decline","consistently","characterised","tendency","standardization","uniformity"],"answer":"Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity."},{"words":["fascism","comes","america","come","wrapped","american","flag"],"answer":"When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag."},{"words":["make","people","think","thinking","love","really","make","think","hate"],"answer":"If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you."},{"words":["providing","disciples","wisdom","reality","acquiring","means","information","unaided","instruction","appear","possess","knowledge","fact","know","disagreeable","people","deal","having","wise","conceit","instead","truly","wise"],"answer":"You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise."},{"words":["invention","produce","forgetfulness","minds","learn","causing","neglect","memory","inasmuch","confidence","writing","recollect","external","aid","foreign","symbols","internal","use","faculties","discovery","medicine","memory","recollectionfor","recalling","keeping","mind"],"answer":"For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind."},{"words":["like","dwarfs","shoulders","giants","things","great","distance","virtue","sight","physical","distinction","carried","high","raised","giant","size"],"answer":"We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size."},{"words":["choose","maintain","species","gradually","brought","maturity","humbler","forms","","welcome","hypothesis","i"],"answer":"If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it."},{"words":["count","day","separate","life"],"answer":"One should count each day a separate life."},{"words":["people","mad","ones","ones","mad","live","mad","talk","mad","saved","desirous","time","ones","yawn","say","commonplace","thing","burn","burn","burn","like","fabulous","yellow","roman","candles","exploding","like","spiders","stars"],"answer":"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."},{"words":["forceps","minds","clumsy","forceps","crush","truth","little","taking","hold"],"answer":"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."},{"words":["ignorance","frequently","begets","confidence","does","knowledge","know","little","know","positively","assert","problem","solved","science"],"answer":"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."},{"words":["wonderful","discovery","scientists","science"],"answer":"The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself."},{"words":["i","seen","standing","shoulders","giants"],"answer":"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants"},{"words":["imagine","world","darwin","imagine","world","charles","darwin","alfred","russel","wallace","transformed","understanding","living","things","baffling","puzzling","urgent","need","explanation","answer","practically","living","things"],"answer":"Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things...."},{"words":["theory","evolution","outstandingly","important","theory","biology"],"answer":"The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology."},{"words":["knowledge","unending","adventure","edge","uncertainty"],"answer":"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."},{"words":["look","mournfully","past","comes","wisely","improve","present","thine","forth","meet","shadowy","future","fear"],"answer":"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."},{"words":["struggle","survival","fittest","win","expense","rivals","succeed","adapting","best","environment"],"answer":"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment."},{"words":["man","noble","qualities","sympathy","feels","debased","benevolence","extends","men","humblest","living","creature","godlike","intellect","penetrated","movements","constitution","solar","exalted","powers","man","bears","bodily","frame","indelible","stamp","lowly","origin"],"answer":"Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."},{"words":["scientific","people","survive","scientific","future"],"answer":"Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future."},{"words":["girls","brought","comrades","helpers","dolls","real","visionary","share","welfare","nation"],"answer":"Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. 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Even the wise cannot see all ends."},{"words":["field","human","conflict","owed"],"answer":"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."},{"words":["","","","i","completely","entirely","good","cheer","","say","traveling","carriage","walking","good","meal","night","i","sleep","","occasions","ideas","flow","best","abundantly","come","i","know","i","force"],"answer":". . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them..."},{"words":["art","handicraft","transmission","feeling","artist","experienced"],"answer":"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."},{"words":["young","son","years","time","change","reverse","present","opinions","refrain","awhile","setting","judge","highest","matters"],"answer":"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. 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They should photograph me through linoleum."},{"words":["ready","try","untried","inconsequential","fact","inventions","birth","toys"],"answer":"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential.  Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."},{"words":["thing","i","hate","argument","interrupts","discussion"],"answer":"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."},{"words":["eccentricity","dull","people","believe","form","madness","kind","innocent","pride","man","genius","aristocrat","frequently","regarded","eccentrics","genius","aristocrat","entirely","unafraid","uninfluenced","opinions","vagaries","crowd"],"answer":"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. 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The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."},{"words":["i","long","opinion","work","splendid","thing","rich","kept"],"answer":"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."},{"words":["far","idleness","root","evil","true","good"],"answer":"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."},{"words":["young","immature"],"answer":"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."},{"words":["man","lets","bored","contemptible","bore"],"answer":"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."},{"words":["depends","read","professors","finished","greatest","university","collection","books"],"answer":"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. 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Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well."},{"words":["commend","add","reasons","doing","distinguishes","approbation","man","sense","flattery","sycophants","admiration","fools"],"answer":"Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools."},{"words":["fools","rush","fools"],"answer":"Fools rush in where fools have been before."},{"words":["thy","manhood","bids","thee","self","expect","applause","noblest","lives","noblest","dies","makes","keeps","selfmade","laws"],"answer":"Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."},{"words":["ill","praise","worse","censure","understand"],"answer":"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."},{"words":["thou","true","merit","befriend","praise","lost","stays","till","commend"],"answer":"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."},{"words":["does","good","applaud","make","people","happy"],"answer":"When someone does something good, applaud! 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No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."},{"words":["today","till","tomorrow","delay","clearer","light","best"],"answer":"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."},{"words":["fit","thing","doing","let","know","reserve","power","using","large","place","occupy","small"],"answer":"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."},{"words":["practicing","remember","practicing","meet","win"],"answer":"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win."},{"words":["remember","things","life","run","smoothly","rising","heights","","reverse","start","downward","great","fact","remember","trend","civilization","forever","upward","line","drawn","middle","peaks","valleys","centuries","upward","trend"],"answer":"Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend."},{"words":["friends","come","enemies","accumulate"],"answer":"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."},{"words":["behold","turtle","makes","progress","sticks","neck"],"answer":"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."},{"words":["promise","perform"],"answer":"Never promise more than you can perform."},{"words":["magnificent","promises","suspected"],"answer":"Magnificent promises are always to be suspected."},{"words":["remember","stable","human","affairs","avoid","undue","elation","prosperity","undue","depression","adversity"],"answer":"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."},{"words":["cup","carried","steadily"],"answer":"A full cup must be carried steadily."},{"words":["drink","seeing","sign","reading"],"answer":"Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it."},{"words":["buy","use","eyes","ears"],"answer":"When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears."},{"words":["frisbeetarianism","belief","die","soul","goes","roof","gets","stuck"],"answer":"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."},{"words":["trust","men","trust","men","worth","course","silly","mark","prudence"],"answer":"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."},{"words":["reveal","secret","friend","tell","friend","enemy","bring","mischief","able","enemy","day","friend"],"answer":"Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend."},{"words":["employ","handsome","servants"],"answer":"Do not employ handsome servants."},{"words":["mere","resolve","useless","honest","desire","help","people","quickest","delicatest","ways","improve"],"answer":"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."},{"words":["sway","audience","watch","speak"],"answer":"To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak."},{"words":["brief","seated"],"answer":"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."},{"words":["let","thy","speech","short","comprehending","words"],"answer":"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words."},{"words":["brief","discourse","long"],"answer":"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long."},{"words":["genius","limitations","stupidity","handicapped"],"answer":"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."},{"words":["examine","said","speaks"],"answer":"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."},{"words":["make","sure","finished","speaking","audience","finished","listening"],"answer":"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."},{"words":["purpose","make","meaningful","possible","life","bestowed","live","way","proud","act","way","lives"],"answer":"This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on."},{"words":["quarrel","man","resolved","make","spare","time","personal","contention"],"answer":"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."},{"words":["books","tasted","swallowed","chewed","digested","books","read","parts","read","curiously","read","wholly","diligence","attention"],"answer":"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."},{"words":["reading","maketh","man","conference","ready","man","writing","exact","man"],"answer":"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."},{"words":["resolve","edge","little","reading","day","single","sentence","gain","minutes","day","make","felt","end","year"],"answer":"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."},{"words":["reading","certain","age","diverts","mind","creative","pursuits","man","reads","uses","brain","little","falls","lazy","habits","thinking"],"answer":"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."},{"words":["facts","distort"],"answer":"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."},{"words":["set","ideal","facing","reality","honestly","cheerfully","possible"],"answer":"Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible."},{"words":["tough","lesson","life","learn","everybody","wishes"],"answer":"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well."},{"words":["useless","attempt","reason","man","thing","reasoned"],"answer":"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."},{"words":["modern","rule","woman","chaperon"],"answer":"The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon."},{"words":["rely","glory","morning","smiles","motherinlaw"],"answer":"Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law."},{"words":["painting","silent","poetry","poetry","painting","gift","speech"],"answer":"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech."},{"words":["envy","ulcer","soul"],"answer":"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."},{"words":["speech","thing","welltimed","speech"],"answer":"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another."},{"words":["argument","end"],"answer":"The argument is at an end."},{"words":["grant","brief","delay","impulse","worthless","servant"],"answer":"Grant us a brief delay; 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when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."},{"words":["absolute","good","matter","opinion","nature"],"answer":"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."},{"words":["evil","implanted","man","nature","spreads","imperceptibly","habit","wrongdoing","unchecked","set","limit","shamelessness"],"answer":"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."},{"words":["duty","man","seeking","investigation","truth"],"answer":"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."},{"words":["duty","obligatory","repayment","kindness"],"answer":"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."},{"words":["content","greatest","truest","riches"],"answer":"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches."},{"words":["ownbr","suum","cuique"],"answer":"To each his own.<br> (Suum Cuique)"},{"words":["destroy","religion","destroying","superstition"],"answer":"We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition."},{"words":["say","mistake","foolish"],"answer":"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."},{"words":["pleasure","rightly","absence","pain"],"answer":"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."},{"words":["desires","poor"],"answer":"He who desires is always poor."},{"words":["modes","establishing","reputation","praised","honest","men","abused","rogues","best","secure","invariably","accompanied"],"answer":"There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. 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We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."},{"words":["war","truth","casualty"],"answer":"In war, truth is the first casualty."},{"words":["critical","moments","powerful","need","weakest"],"answer":"In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."},{"words":["persuasion","effectual","force"],"answer":"Persuasion is often more effectual than force."},{"words":["splendid","head","brain"],"answer":"What a splendid head, yet no brain."},{"words":["wise","man","love","desire"],"answer":"The wise man will love; all others will desire."},{"words":["courage","value","unless","accompanied","justice","men","just","need","courage"],"answer":"Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage."},{"words":["bad","mind","bad","heartbr","mals","mens","malus","animus"],"answer":"Bad mind, bad heart.<br> (Mals Mens, Malus Animus)"},{"words":["tis","advisor","suffers","bad","advice"],"answer":"Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice."},{"words":["undertake","act","prudence","consider","consequences"],"answer":"Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences."},{"words":["poverty","schoolmaster","character"],"answer":"Poverty is the schoolmaster of character."},{"words":["act","madman","pursue","impossibilities"],"answer":"It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities."},{"words":["ridicule","argument","fools"],"answer":"Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools."},{"words":["i","distinguish","eye","mind","proper","judge"],"answer":"I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge."},{"words":["glory","like","circle","waterbr","ceaseth","enlarge","itselfbr","till","broad","spreading","disperses","naught"],"answer":"Glory is like a circle in the water,<br> Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,<br> Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught."},{"words":["suspicion","haunts","guilty","mind"],"answer":"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."},{"words":["faults","pleasure","noticing"],"answer":"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others."},{"words":["jealousy","feeds","suspicion","turns","fury","ends","soon","pass","suspicion","certainty"],"answer":"Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty."},{"words":["repentance","regret","ill","fear","ill","happen","consequence"],"answer":"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence."},{"words":["deliberate","caution","act","decision","yield","graciousness","oppose","firmness"],"answer":"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."},{"words":["angry","man","angry","returns","reason"],"answer":"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."},{"words":["virtue","reward"],"answer":"Virtue is indeed its own reward."},{"words":["learn","bear","bravely","changes","fortune"],"answer":"Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune."},{"words":["safeguard","health","body","soul"],"answer":"Safeguard the health both of body and soul."},{"words":["defeat","inevitable","wisest","yield"],"answer":"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."},{"words":["respect","respect"],"answer":"Respect yourself and others will respect you."},{"words":["knowledge","world","acquired","world","closet"],"answer":"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet."},{"words":["action","best","procures","greatest","happiness"],"answer":"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness."},{"words":["griefs","harass","distrestbr","sure","bitter","scornful","jest"],"answer":"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,<br> Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."},{"words":["curiosity","permanent","certain","characteristics","vigorous","mind"],"answer":"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."},{"words":["consider","end"],"answer":"In everything one must consider the end."},{"words":["sword","bites","fiercly","evil","tongue"],"answer":"No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue."},{"words":["griping","grief","heart","doth","woundbr","doleful","dumps","mind","opressesbr","music","silver","soundbr","speedy","help","doth","lend","redress"],"answer":"When griping grief the heart doth wound,<br> and doleful dumps the mind opresses,<br> then music, with her silver sound,<br> with speedy help doth lend redress."},{"words":["work","struggle","accept","evil","change"],"answer":"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."},{"words":["design","wise","just","ascertained","pursue","resolutely","repulse","forego","purpose","resolved","effect"],"answer":"See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; 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"},{"words":["young","man","wept","savagebr","old","man","laugh","fool"],"answer":"The young man who has not wept is a savage,<br> and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."},{"words":["hard","work","killed","anybody","chance"],"answer":"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"},{"words":["god","stop","moment","cease","work","look"],"answer":"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."},{"words":["freedom","expression","matrix","indispensable","condition","nearly","form","freedom"],"answer":"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."},{"words":["law","stable","stand"],"answer":"The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."},{"words":["government","analysis","organized","opinion","little","public","opinion","likely","bad","government"],"answer":"Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. 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"},{"words":["hand","washes","otherbr","manus","manum","lavet"],"answer":"One hand washes the other.<br> (Manus Manum Lavet)"},{"words":["speech","mirror","mindbr","imago","animi","sermo","est"],"answer":"Speech is the mirror of the mind.<br> (Imago Animi Sermo Est)"},{"words":["arts","servant","wisdom","master"],"answer":"The arts are the servant; wisdom its master."},{"words":["step","amendment","recognition","error"],"answer":"The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error."},{"words":["mind","slow","unlearn","learnt","early"],"answer":"The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early."},{"words":["onerous","slavery","slave","oneself"],"answer":"The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself."},{"words":["path","precept","long","example","short","effectual"],"answer":"The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual."},{"words":["fortunate","pass","life","soul","known","sorrow","ignorant","half","nature"],"answer":"To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."},{"words":["unjust","dominion","eternal"],"answer":"Unjust dominion cannot be eternal."},{"words":["allow","certain","time","doing","order","things","occur","let","mind","think"],"answer":"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."},{"words":["astray","trodden","frequented","road"],"answer":"We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road."},{"words":["wealth","slave","wise","man","master","fool"],"answer":"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."},{"words":["reason","fails","time","oft","worked","cure"],"answer":"Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure."},{"words":["produced","haste","goes","hastily","waste"],"answer":"Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste."},{"words":["does","reason","demand","man","easy","thingto","live","accord","nature"],"answer":"What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature."},{"words":["i","detest","man","hides","thing","depths","heart","speaks"],"answer":"I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another."},{"words":["innocence","dwells","wisdom","ignorance"],"answer":"Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance."},{"words":["sign","intelligent","people","ability","control","emotions","application","reason"],"answer":"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason."},{"words":["knowledge","influences","equalizes","social","condition","man","gives","different","political","position","passions","common","enjoyments","universal"],"answer":"It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal."},{"words":["employ","thy","time","thou","meanest","leisure"],"answer":"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure."},{"words":["like","waves","make","pebbled","shore","minutes","hasten","end"],"answer":"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end."},{"words":["greatest","remedy","anger","delay"],"answer":"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."},{"words":["stirring","tumult","strife","worst","men","peace","quiet","established","virtue"],"answer":"In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue."},{"words":["experience","admirable","laws","right","precedents","good","origin","misdeeds"],"answer":"It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others."},{"words":["keen","start","careless","end"],"answer":"Keen at the start, but careless at the end."},{"words":["hatred","bitter","near","relations",""],"answer":"No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. "},{"words":["safe","honourable"],"answer":"That cannot be safe which is not honourable."},{"words":["complete","confidence","power","excessive"],"answer":"There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive."},{"words":["piece","advice","life","study","i","think","object","completely","idle",""],"answer":"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all."},{"words":["i","nearest","neighbour"],"answer":"I am my nearest neighbour."},{"words":["silence","sufficient","praise"],"answer":"Their silence is sufficient praise."},{"words":["liberty","corrupts"],"answer":"Too much liberty corrupts us all."},{"words":["let","leave"],"answer":"What is done let us leave alone."},{"words":["multitude","words","proof","prudent","mind"],"answer":"A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind."},{"words":["meanest","contemptible","kind","praise","speaks","man","qualifies",""],"answer":"The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a \"but\". "},{"words":["certain","test","judge","country","really","free","security","enjoyed","minorities"],"answer":"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."},{"words":["justice","requires","lawfully","constituted","authority","given","respect","obedience","laws","shall","wise","conformity","common","good","matter","conscience","men","shall","render","obedience","laws"],"answer":"Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws."},{"words":["law","order","liberty","order","liberty","social","chaos"],"answer":"Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos."},{"words":["patience","companion","wisdom"],"answer":"Patience is the companion of wisdom."},{"words":["reason","resolution","considered","resolution"],"answer":"The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself."},{"words":["opinion","significance","proportioned","sources","sustain"],"answer":"Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it."},{"words":["justice","constant","perpetual","allot","man"],"answer":"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due."},{"words":["sell","refuse","delay","right","justice"],"answer":"To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice."},{"words":["character","act","depends","circumstances"],"answer":"The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done."},{"words":["man","deserves","punishment","thoughts"],"answer":"No man deserves punishment for his thoughts."},{"words":["compassion","basis","morality"],"answer":"Compassion is the basis of all morality."},{"words":["wise","man","carries","possessions"],"answer":"The wise man carries his possessions within him."},{"words":["prejudice","opinion","judgement"],"answer":"Prejudice is opinion without judgement."},{"words":["read","book","time","make","acquaintance","new","friend","read","second","time","meet","old"],"answer":"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one."},{"words":["removes","greatest","ornament","friendship","takes","away","respect"],"answer":"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect."},{"words":["tell","secret","resign","liberty",""],"answer":"To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty. "},{"words":["want","respected","great","thing","respect","selfrespect","compel","respect"],"answer":"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."},{"words":["tranquil","mind","seekbr","things","observe","carebr","speak","speakbr",""],"answer":"If for a tranquil mind you seek,<br> These things observe with care:<br> Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,<br> And how, and when and where. "},{"words":["new","ideas","strange","horrible","ultimately","valuable","heavy","responsibility","rests","prevent","dissemination",""],"answer":"So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination. "},{"words":["hold","truths","selfevident","men","created","equal","endowed","creator","certain","inalienable","rights","life","liberty","pursuit","happiness"],"answer":"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."},{"words":["absurd","thing","pass","valuable","parts","man","fix","attention","infirmities"],"answer":"What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities."},{"words":["ignorance","night","mind","night","moon","star"],"answer":"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."},{"words":["use","soft","words","hard","arguments"],"answer":"Use soft words and hard arguments."},{"words":["magic","love","ignorance","end"],"answer":"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."},{"words":["o","tyrant","love","drive","hearts","men"],"answer":"O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men."},{"words":["passions","water","good","servants","bad","masters"],"answer":"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."},{"words":["learn","labour","wait"],"answer":"Learn to labour and to wait."},{"words":["peace","created","order","maintained","product","faith","strength","energy","sympathy","justice","imagination","triumph","principle","achieved","passivity","quietism"],"answer":"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."},{"words":["dealing","people","let","remember","dealing","creatures","logic","dealing","creatures","emotion","creatures","bustling","prejudices","motivated","pride","vanity"],"answer":"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."},{"words":["thou","livest","good","tongue","thy","head"],"answer":"While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head."},{"words":["wise","man","knows","relative","value","things"],"answer":"The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things."},{"words":["let","resolute","prosecuting","ends","mild","methods","doing"],"answer":"Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing."},{"words":["men","highest","character","noblest","genius","insatiable","desire","honour","command","power","glory"],"answer":"In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory."},{"words":["human","actions","seven","causes","chance","nature","compulsion","habit","reason","passion","desire"],"answer":"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."},{"words":["nature","rewards","punishments","consequences"],"answer":"There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences."},{"words":["familiarity","breeds","contempt","rarity","wins","admiration"],"answer":"Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration."},{"words":["men","consider","differ","agree","far","uncharitableness","angry","feeling"],"answer":"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling."},{"words":["doctrine","bear","investigation","fit","tenant","mind","honest","man"],"answer":"Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man."},{"words":["believe","certainty","begin","doubting"],"answer":"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."},{"words":["conceive","express","clearly","words","flow","ease"],"answer":"Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease."},{"words":["stable","state","men","equal","law"],"answer":"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."},{"words":["faith","adequate","evidence","mere","superstition"],"answer":"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition."},{"words":["winding","watch","wit","strike"],"answer":"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."},{"words":["time","hate","fear"],"answer":"In time we hate that which we often fear."},{"words":["strong","feelings","necessarily","make","strong","character","strength","man","measured","power","feelings","subdues","power","subdue"],"answer":"Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. 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Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity."},{"words":["civilization","built","number","ultimate","principlesrespect","human","life","punishment","crimes","property","persons","equality","good","citizens","lawor","word","justice"],"answer":"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice."},{"words":["man","free","imagination","bound","reason"],"answer":"Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason."},{"words":["equalityis","result","human","organization","born","equal"],"answer":"Equality...is the result of human organization. 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It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence."},{"words":["intelligent","openminded","active","memoried","persistently","experimental"],"answer":"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental."},{"words":["law","moral","basis","inner","compelling","force","citizen","obey"],"answer":"A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey."},{"words":["unless","life","activated","sustained","purpose","depressingly","haphazard","affair"],"answer":"Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair."},{"words":["idea","legally","establishing","inalienable","inherent","sacred","rights","individual","political","religious","origin"],"answer":"The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin."},{"words":["man","organs","serve","master","control","eye","ear","nose","mouth","hand","foot"],"answer":"Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot."},{"words":["voice","enter","ears","voices","enter","ear"],"answer":"One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear."},{"words":["war","delightful","experience"],"answer":"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."},{"words":["modern","world","intelligence","public","opinion","indispensable","condition","social","progress"],"answer":"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."},{"words":["live","greatest","revenge"],"answer":"Live well. It is the greatest revenge."},{"words":["beginning","history","country","afflicted","compromise","compromise","human","rights","abandoned","i","insist","shall","cease","country","needs","repose","trials","deserves","repose","repose","everlasting","principles"],"answer":"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles."},{"words":["harebrained","chatter","irresponsible","frivolity"],"answer":"The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."},{"words":["reasonable","men","i","reason","humane","men","i","plea","tyrants","i","quarter","waste","arguments","certainly","lost"],"answer":"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."},{"words":["man","learn","unless","proceeds","known","unknown"],"answer":"Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown."},{"words":["nature","makes","blunders","makes","fool","means"],"answer":"Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it."},{"words":["education","object","formation","character"],"answer":"Education has for its object the formation of character."},{"words":["error","dangerous","truth","contains"],"answer":"An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains."},{"words":["little","knowledge","dangerous","man","danger"],"answer":"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger."},{"words":["country","right","wrong","right","kept","right","wrong","right"],"answer":"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right."},{"words":["drug","heals","sorrows","forgetfulness"],"answer":"The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness."},{"words":["better","equipped","life","swimming","carry"],"answer":"He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry."},{"words":["laws","numerous","greatest","injustice"],"answer":"Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice."},{"words":["justice","ordering","society","centered"],"answer":"It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered."},{"words":["law","mind","reason"],"answer":"Law is mind without reason."},{"words":["perceive","suffer"],"answer":"To perceive is to suffer."},{"words":["does","know","silent","know","speak"],"answer":"He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak."},{"words":["things","hear","pass","quicker","minds","read"],"answer":"Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read."},{"words":["truth","mother","hatred"],"answer":"Truth is the mother of hatred."},{"words":["wealthy","think","saving","getting"],"answer":"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."},{"words":["beware","man","book"],"answer":"Beware the man of one book."},{"words":["love","looks","eyes","mind"],"answer":"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."},{"words":["far","best","proof","experience"],"answer":"By far the best proof is experience."},{"words":["afraid","ought","fear"],"answer":"He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many."},{"words":["knowledge","powerbr","ipsa","scientia","potestas","est"],"answer":"Knowledge is power.<br> (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)"},{"words":["speak","quickly","sign","insanity"],"answer":"Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity."},{"words":["i","taken","knowledge","province"],"answer":"I have taken all knowledge to by my province."},{"words":["rich","poor","friends"],"answer":"Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends."},{"words":["man","begin","certainties","shall","end","doubts","content","begin","doubts","shall","end","certainties"],"answer":"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."},{"words":["conscience","perfect","interpreter","life"],"answer":"Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life."},{"words":["cowardice","asks","safe","expediency","asks","politic","conscience","asks","right"],"answer":"Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?"},{"words":["emboldens","sin","mercy"],"answer":"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."},{"words":["good","scare","worth","man","good","advice"],"answer":"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."},{"words":["best","way","realize","pleasure","feeling","rich","live","smaller","house","means","entitle"],"answer":"The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have."},{"words":["quick","question","slow","answer"],"answer":"To a quick question, give a slow answer."},{"words":["test","courage","comes","minority","test","tolerance","comes","majority"],"answer":"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. 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He who cannot, teaches."},{"words":["right","radical","wrong","conservative"],"answer":"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."},{"words":["pleasures","rarely","experience","greatest","delight"],"answer":"The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight."},{"words":["circumstances","rule","men","men","rule","circumstances"],"answer":"Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances."},{"words":["short","joy","guilty","pleasure","brings"],"answer":"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings."},{"words":["silence","shows","agree"],"answer":"Your very silence shows you agree."},{"words":["idle","mind","knows","wants"],"answer":"The idle mind knows not what it wants."},{"words":["god","commanded","continence","things","restrain","love","justice","bestow","love"],"answer":"You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love."},{"words":["live","days","life"],"answer":"May you live all the days of your life."},{"words":["men","generally","careful","breed","horses","dogs","children"],"answer":"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."},{"words":["physical","deformity","calls","forth","charity","infinite","misfortune","moral","deformity","calls","forth","hatred","vengeance"],"answer":"Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance."},{"words":["good","laws","origins","bad","morals"],"answer":"Good laws have their origins in bad morals."},{"words":["pleasure","toil"],"answer":"Even pleasure itself is a toil."},{"words":["born","die","end","pendant","beginning"],"answer":"When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning."},{"words":["virtuous","man","novice","worldly","things"],"answer":"The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things."},{"words":["culture","makes","men","gentle"],"answer":"Culture makes all men gentle."},{"words":["let","bravery","thy","choice","bravado"],"answer":"Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado."},{"words":["sword","body","wounds","sharp","words","mind"],"answer":"The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind."},{"words":["evils","choose"],"answer":"Of two evils we must always choose the least."},{"words":["harder","fight","striving","overcome"],"answer":"Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself."},{"words":["eternally","vigilant","attempts","check","expression","opinions","loathe"],"answer":"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."},{"words":["selfpity","worst","enemy","yield","good","world"],"answer":"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world."},{"words":["segregation","adultery","illicit","intercourse","injustice","immorality"],"answer":"Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality."},{"words":["men","know","ancestors","did","start","knowledge","ancestors","learnedthat","society","progressive","conserves","traditions"],"answer":"Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions."},{"words":["test","truth","reference","present","imagined","future","majority","favour","view"],"answer":"Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view."},{"words":["order","men","taught","speak","truth","necessary","likewise","learn","hear"],"answer":"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."},{"words":["dictum","truth","triumphs","persecution","pleasant","falsehoods","men","repeat","till","pass","common","places","experience","refutes"],"answer":"Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes."},{"words":["i","believe","instances","abridgement","freedom","people","gradual","silent","encroachments","power","violent","sudden","usurpations"],"answer":"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."},{"words":["province","knowledge","speak","privilege","wisdom","listen"],"answer":"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."},{"words":["build","future","youth","build","youth","future"],"answer":"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."},{"words":["ability","conceit"],"answer":"The less their ability, the more their conceit."},{"words":["want","free","way","guarantee","equally","measure","liberty","neighbors"],"answer":"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other."},{"words":["doubt"],"answer":"When in doubt, do without."},{"words":["faith","man","experiences","meaning","world","action","meaning"],"answer":"Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning."},{"words":["quiet","sympathy","welcome","efficient","consolation","afflicted","said","wise","man","deep","sorrow","i","did","come","comfort","god","i","did","come","say","deeply","tenderly","i","feel","affliction"],"answer":"Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, \"I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction\"."},{"words":["healthy","mind","healthy","body"],"answer":"A healthy mind in a healthy body."},{"words":["path","leads","life","peace","path","virtue"],"answer":"One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue."},{"words":["peace","visits","guilty","mindbr","nemo","malus","felix"],"answer":"Peace visits not the guilty mind.<br> (Nemo Malus Felix)"},{"words":["refrain","doing","ill","powerful","reason","lest","children","copy","misdeeds","prone","imitate","base","depraved"],"answer":"Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved."},{"words":["worse","ignorant","ignorance"],"answer":"It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance."},{"words":["weigh","considerations","risks"],"answer":"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks."},{"words":["government","potent","omnipresent","teacher","good","ill","teaches","people","example"],"answer":"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. 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Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."},{"words":["just","definitions","prevent","end","dispute"],"answer":"Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute."},{"words":["true","teacher","defends","pupils","personal","influence"],"answer":"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence."},{"words":["remember","lost","time","does","return"],"answer":"Remember that lost time does not return."},{"words":["world","worth","doing","stand","shivering","thinking","cold","danger","jump","scramble"],"answer":"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."},{"words":["trust","man","speaks","everybody"],"answer":"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody."},{"words":["truth","secret","eloquence","virtue","basis","moral","authority","highest","summit","art","life"],"answer":"Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life."},{"words":["greatest","friend","truth","time","greatest","enemy","prejudice","constant","companion","humility"],"answer":"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."},{"words":["better","understand","little","misunderstand","lot"],"answer":"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot."},{"words":["make","wisdom","provision","journey","youth","old","age","certain","support","possessions"],"answer":"Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions."},{"words":["word","crystal","transparent","unchanging","skin","living","thought","vary","greatly","colour","content","according","circumstances","time","used"],"answer":"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."},{"words":["honourable","accused","deserve","accused"],"answer":"It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused."},{"words":["know","man","observe","wins","object","loses","fail","pride","supports","succeed","betrays"],"answer":"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us."},{"words":["man","animal","animals","refuses","satisfied","fulfilment","animal","desires"],"answer":"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires."},{"words":["act","consider","considered","tis","fully","time","act"],"answer":"Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act."},{"words":["reveal","secrets","wind","blame","wind","revealing","trees"],"answer":"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."},{"words":["men","desire","liberty","majority","satisfied","just","master"],"answer":"Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master."},{"words":["small","communities","grow","great","harmony","great","ones","fall","pieces","discord"],"answer":"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord."},{"words":["higher","station","liberty"],"answer":"The higher your station, the less your liberty."},{"words":["art","imitation","nature"],"answer":"All art is an imitation of nature."},{"words":["unpopular","rule","long","maintained"],"answer":"An unpopular rule is never long maintained."},{"words":["language","life"],"answer":"As was his language so was his life."},{"words":["hasty","praise","blame","speak","giving","evidence","judgementseat","gods"],"answer":"Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods."},{"words":["silent","services","rendered","speak","favours","received"],"answer":"Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received."},{"words":["dangerous","wrath","concealed","hatred","proclaimed","doth","lose","chance","wreaking","vengeance"],"answer":"Dangerous is wrath concealed. 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The effect is visible to all."},{"words":["crowd"],"answer":"We two are to ourselves a crowd."},{"words":["dinner","lubricates","business"],"answer":"A dinner lubricates business."},{"words":["pleasure","love","pinions","great","deeds"],"answer":"Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds."},{"words":["soon","trust","know","live"],"answer":"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."},{"words":["sword","justice","scabbard"],"answer":"The sword of justice has no scabbard."},{"words":["love","democracy","equality"],"answer":"The love of democracy is that of equality."},{"words":["use","talents","possess","woods","silent","birds","sang","sang","best"],"answer":"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."},{"words":["dignity","love","blend","continue","long"],"answer":"Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."},{"words":["ignorance","certain","subjects","great","wisdom"],"answer":"Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom."},{"words":["err","humanbr","errare","humanum","est"],"answer":"To err is human.<br> (Errare Humanum Est)"},{"words":["modesty","citadel","beauty"],"answer":"Modesty is the citadel of beauty."},{"words":["sins","easily","remembered","good","deeds"],"answer":"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."},{"words":["pride","youth","strength","beauty","pride","old","age","discretion"],"answer":"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion."},{"words":["tis","hard","fight","anger","prudent","man","keeps","control"],"answer":"Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control."},{"words":["beauty","statue","outward","form","man","conduct"],"answer":"The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct."},{"words":["speech","vain","unless","accompanied","action"],"answer":"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."},{"words":["fact","speak"],"answer":"The fact speak for themselves."},{"words":["o","human","race","born","fly","upward","wherefore","little","wind","dost","thou","fall"],"answer":"O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall."},{"words":["say","men","doctrine","moves","world","takes","position","sway","human","intellect"],"answer":"Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect."},{"words":["conquers","endures"],"answer":"He conquers who endures."},{"words":["necessity","law"],"answer":"Necessity has no law."},{"words":["place","nature","extinction"],"answer":"There is no place in nature for extinction."},{"words":["nature","does","proceed","leaps"],"answer":"Nature does not proceed by leaps."},{"words":["greater","terror","unknown"],"answer":"Greater is our terror of the unknown."},{"words":["i","approach","questions","unwillingly","sore","subjects","cure","effected","touching","handling"],"answer":"I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them."},{"words":["difficult","desperate","cases","boldest","counsels","safest"],"answer":"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest."},{"words":["soon","trust","know","live"],"answer":"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."},{"words":["difficulties","nature","throws","way","smoothed","away","exercise","intelligence"],"answer":"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."},{"words":["men","clever","shifting","blame","shoulders"],"answer":"Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others."},{"words":["men","slower","recognize","blessings","misfortunes"],"answer":"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes."},{"words":["populace","like","sea","motionless","stirred","wind","lightest","breeze"],"answer":"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."},{"words":["spirit","attack","defence"],"answer":"There is always more spirit in attack than in defence."},{"words":["o","wise","man","wash","hands","friend","associates","enemies"],"answer":"O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies."},{"words":["past","certain","future","obscure"],"answer":"The past is certain, the future obscure."},{"words":["begins","torrent","words","trickling","sense"],"answer":"Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense."},{"words":["free","state","freedom","speech","thought"],"answer":"In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought."},{"words":["hesitates","lost","miles","exit"],"answer":"He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit."},{"words":["quarrels","intervene"],"answer":"In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene."},{"words":["behold","manbr","ecce","homo"],"answer":"Behold the man.<br> (Ecce Homo)"},{"words":["great","truth","powerful"],"answer":"Great is truth, and all powerful."},{"words":["consider","called","virtues","mankind","growth","assisted","education","cultivation"],"answer":"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation."},{"words":["reason","ears","mouth","hear","speak"],"answer":"The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less."},{"words":["think","alike","thinks"],"answer":"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."},{"words":["true","equality","law","nature","nature","equality","soverign","law","subordination","dependence"],"answer":"It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence."},{"words":["judge","real","importance","individual","think","effect","death","produce"],"answer":"To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce."},{"words":["necessity","plea","infringement","human","freedom","argument","tyrants","creed","slaves"],"answer":"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."},{"words":["i","expect","pass","world","good","thing","i","kindness","i","fellow","creature","let","let","defer","neglect","i","shall","pass","way"],"answer":"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."},{"words":["say","say"],"answer":"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."},{"words":["acquire","solitude","","character"],"answer":"One can acquire everything in solitude - except character."},{"words":["noise","impertinent","forms","interruption","interruption","disruption","thought"],"answer":"Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought."},{"words":["man","idle","absorbed","thought","visible","labour","invisible","labour"],"answer":"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour."},{"words":["i","repeatthat","power","trust","accountable","exercise","people","people","springs","exist"],"answer":"I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist."},{"words":["individuals","form","communities","institutions","create","nation"],"answer":"Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation."},{"words":["nonsense","noise","oft","prevail","honour","affection","fail"],"answer":"Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail."},{"words":["learn","limit","content","definite","thing","definite","work","dare","learn","resign","good","grace","believe","individuality"],"answer":"Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality."},{"words":["general","rule","successful","man","life","man","best","information"],"answer":"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."},{"words":["injustice","men","know","justice"],"answer":"If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice."},{"words":["suffer","blessed"],"answer":"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."},{"words":["teachers","open","door","enter"],"answer":"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself."},{"words":["abundance","knowledge","does","teach","men","wise"],"answer":"Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise."},{"words":["outward","form","order","deep","disorder","mind"],"answer":"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."},{"words":["dedicate","life","dedication","sacrifice","exhilarating","experience","intense","effort","applied","meaningful","end"],"answer":"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end."},{"words":["underlying","scheme","civilization","confidence","men","confidence","integrity","confidence","honesty","confidence","future"],"answer":"Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future."},{"words":["lives","hope","die","fasting"],"answer":"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."},{"words":["recipe","perpetual","ignorance","satisfied","opinions","content","knowledge"],"answer":"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."},{"words":["government","instituted","passions","men","conform","dictates","reason","justice","constraint"],"answer":"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."},{"words":["obliged","make","statement","know","cause","displeasure","say","appearance","sincerity","way","make","palatable"],"answer":"When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable."},{"words":["cheerful","mind","vigorous","mind"],"answer":"A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind."},{"words":["clarity","mind","means","clarity","passion","great","clear","mind","loves","ardently","sees","distinctly","loves"],"answer":"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."},{"words":["refinement","brings","new","pleasures","exposes","new","pains"],"answer":"The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains."},{"words":["worst","derangement","spirit","believe","things","want","seen"],"answer":"The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are."},{"words":["thing","proved","just","questioned","gone","impartially","properly","gone","scepticism","step","truth","applied","generally","touchstone"],"answer":"A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone."},{"words":["sow","good","services","sweet","remembrances","grow"],"answer":"Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them."},{"words":["silence","man","readily","preserve","integrity"],"answer":"In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity."},{"words":["accompanied","noble","thoughts"],"answer":"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts."},{"words":["desire","learn","necessity","arguing","writing","opinions","opinions","good","men","knowledge","making"],"answer":"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making."},{"words":["worst","solitude","destitute","friendship"],"answer":"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."},{"words":["read","contradict","confute","believe","granted","talk","discourse","weigh","consider"],"answer":"Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."},{"words":["employs","passion","make","use","reason"],"answer":"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."},{"words":["man","religion","creature","circumstances"],"answer":"Man without religion is the creature of circumstances."},{"words":["measure","fixed","limits","short","right","resting","place"],"answer":"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place."},{"words":["let","consider","reason","case","law","reason"],"answer":"Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason."},{"words":["men","unbelief","thing","springs","blind","belief"],"answer":"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."},{"words":["ignorance","cramps","conversation"],"answer":"Your ignorance, cramps my conversation."},{"words":["hope","heart","man","make","beast","prey"],"answer":"Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey."},{"words":["ashamed","finest","actions","world","understood","motives"],"answer":"We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives."},{"words":["great","people","think","thinking","merely","rearranging","prejudices"],"answer":"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices."},{"words":["errors","dangerous","great","deal","truth","mingled","alliance","obtain","extensive","circulation"],"answer":"Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."},{"words":["study","past","define","future"],"answer":"Study the past if you would define the future."},{"words":["eat","shopping","store","hungry","likely","make","unnecessary","purchases"],"answer":"Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases."},{"words":["law","liberty","tends","abolish","reign","race","race","faith","faith","class","class","realization","political","ideal","discharge","moral","obligation"],"answer":"The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation."},{"words":["history","civilization","strewn","creeds","institutions","invaluable","deadly"],"answer":"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."},{"words":["weary","path","does","challenge","doubt","incentive","truth","patient","inquiry","leadeth","way"],"answer":"Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way."},{"words":["real","individual","freedom","presence","economic","insecurity"],"answer":"There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity."},{"words":["irresponsible","power","inconsistent","liberty","corrupt","exercise"],"answer":"Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it."},{"words":["legislation","government","society","founded","principle","mutual","concession","politeness","comity","courtesy","basedlet","elevates","humanity","weaknesses","infirmities","wants","necessities","say","pleases","i","compromise","let","frailties","common","nature","disdain","compromises"],"answer":"All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises."},{"words":["democracy","flourish","criticism","government","function","dissent"],"answer":"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent."},{"words":["foundation","state","education","youth"],"answer":"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."},{"words":["good","word","easy","obligation","speak","ill","requires","silence","costs"],"answer":"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing."},{"words":["opinions","founded","prejudice","sustained","greatest","violence"],"answer":"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence."},{"words":["simple","possible","bit","simpler"],"answer":"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."},{"words":["age","new","errors","rectified","new","prejudices","opposed"],"answer":"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."},{"words":["person","cause","evil","actions","inaction","case","justly","accountable","injury"],"answer":"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."},{"words":["poor","patience","wound","did","heal","degrees"],"answer":"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees."},{"words":["let","understood","saying","bad","laws","grievances","arise","redress","legal","provisions","i","mean","say","thing","i","mean","say","bad","laws","exist","repealed","soon","possible","continue","force","sake","example","religiously","observed"],"answer":"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."},{"words":["opinion","ultimately","determined","feelings","intellect"],"answer":"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."},{"words":["men","brought","face","face","opponents","forced","listen","learn","mend","ideas","cease","children","savages","begin","live","like","civilized","men","freedom","reality","men","voice","opinions","examine","opinions"],"answer":"When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions."},{"words":["protest","does","accomplice","act"],"answer":"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act."},{"words":["ignorance","inconsideration","great","causes","ruin","mankind"],"answer":"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind."},{"words":["long","ago","stated","reason","labour","organizations","said","union","essential","labourers","opportunity","deal","equality","employers"],"answer":"Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers."},{"words":["thought","weak","expressed","simply","simply","drop"],"answer":"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it."},{"words":["spirit","form","law","keeps","justice","alive"],"answer":"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."},{"words":["speech","corrupted","mind"],"answer":"Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also."},{"words":["manis","tame","civilized","animal","requires","proper","instruction","fortunate","nature","animals","divine","civilized","insufficiently","ill","educated","savage","earthly","creatures"],"answer":"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."},{"words":["beast","savage","man","possessed","power","answerable","rage"],"answer":"No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage."},{"words":["soon","man","says","affairs","state","does","matter","state","given","lost"],"answer":"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State \"What does it matter to me?\" the State may be given up for lost."},{"words":["feared","fear","able","strike","terror","time","enjoy","peace","mind"],"answer":"To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind."},{"words":["vanity","life","sufficient","reason","living"],"answer":"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living."},{"words":["far","mind","stronger","body","ills","contracted","mind","severe","contracted","body"],"answer":"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."},{"words":["virtue","genuine","graces","speak","words","utter"],"answer":"Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."},{"words":["away","crowd","hours","daily"],"answer":"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily."},{"words":["face","book","men","read","strange","matters"],"answer":"Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters."},{"words":["stream","thought","flows","segments","fall","bottomless","abyss","oblivion","memory","survives","instant","passage","confined","moments","hours","days","leave","vestiges","indestructible","means","recalled","long","life","endures"],"answer":"The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures."},{"words":["minds","unless","busy","definite","subject","bridle","control","throw","disorder","hither","yon","vague","field","imagination","mad","idle","fancy","bring","forth","agitation"],"answer":"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation."},{"words":["knowledge","does","determine","action","dead"],"answer":"Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us."},{"words":["discipline","world","severe","discipline","experience","subjected","tests","intelligent","development","direction"],"answer":"There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction."},{"words":["satisfactory","decision","truth","necessary","arbitrator","party","dispute"],"answer":"To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute."},{"words":["tells","lie","sensible","great","task","undertakes","forced","invent","maintain"],"answer":"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."},{"words":["man","die","ignorant","capacity","knowledge","i","tragedy"],"answer":"That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy."},{"words":["things","wise","man","wish","ignorant"],"answer":"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."},{"words":["deceive","people","time","people","time","people","time"],"answer":"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time."},{"words":["wonders","discovers","wonder"],"answer":"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."},{"words":["man","foe","love","stranger"],"answer":"Call no man foe, but never love a stranger."},{"words":["ignorance","innocence","sin"],"answer":"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."},{"words":["ignorance","gives","large","range","probabilities"],"answer":"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."},{"words":["men","exercise","reason","coolly","freely","variety","distinct","questions","inevitably","fall","different","opinions","governed","common","passion","opinions","called"],"answer":"When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same."},{"words":["greater","mistake","hasty","conclusion","opinions","worthless","badly","argued"],"answer":"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued."},{"words":["embellishments","language","arrangement","expression","thoughts","thoughts","shine","light","language"],"answer":"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language."},{"words":["memory","specially","taxed","youth","strongest","tenacious","choosing","things","committed","memory","utmost","care","forethought","exercised","lessons","learnt","youth","forgotten"],"answer":"The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten."},{"words":["absolute","certainty","possible","man","given","moment","feeling","exists"],"answer":"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists."},{"words":["pity","virtue","law","tyrants","use","cruelly"],"answer":"Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly."},{"words":["let","care","disclose","hearts","shut","theirs"],"answer":"Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us."},{"words":["obliged","respect","defend","maintain","common","bonds","union","fellowship","exist","members","human","race"],"answer":"We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race."},{"words":["state","natureall","men","born","equal","continue","equality","society","makes","lose","recover","protection","law"],"answer":"In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law."},{"words":["laws","partly","formed","sake","good","men","order","instruct","live","friendly","terms","partly","sake","refuse","instructed","spirit","subdued","softened","hindered","plunging","evil"],"answer":"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."},{"words":["justice","contract","expediency","entered","prevent","men","harming","harmed"],"answer":"Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed."},{"words":["government","imprisons","unjustly","true","place","just","man","prison"],"answer":"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison."},{"words":["duties","owe","wronged","limit","retribution","punishment"],"answer":"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment."},{"words":["falsehood","lurks","tongue","selfpraise","seeks","enhance","value","eyes"],"answer":"Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others."},{"words":["liberty","means","responsibility","men","dread"],"answer":"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."},{"words":["mistrust","man","finds","good","man","finds","evil","man","indifferent"],"answer":"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything."},{"words":["liberty","know","utter","argue","freely","according","conscience","liberties"],"answer":"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."},{"words":["justice","end","government","end","civil","society","pursued","obtained","liberty","lost","pursuit","society","forms","stronger","faction","readily","unite","oppress","weaker","anarchy","truly","said","reign","state","nature","weaker","individual","secured","violence","stronger","state","individuals","prompted","uncertainty","condition","submit","government","protect","weak","state","powerful","factions","parties","gradually","induced","like","motive","wish","government","protect","parties","weaker","powerful"],"answer":"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful."},{"words":["experience","teaches","teachable"],"answer":"Experience teaches only the teachable."},{"words":["perfection","moral","virtue","does","wholly","away","passions","regulates"],"answer":"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."},{"words":["fashion","science","appearances","inspires","desire"],"answer":"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."},{"words":["soul","man","clothes"],"answer":"The soul of this man is in his clothes."},{"words":["history","human","race","viewed","regarded","realization","hidden","plan","nature","bring","political","constitution","internally","purpose","externally","perfect","state","capacities","implanted","mankind","fully","developed"],"answer":"The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."},{"words":["reading","good","books","like","conversation","noblest","men","past","centuries","authors","nay","carefully","studied","conversation","reveal","best","thoughts"],"answer":"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts."},{"words":["human","life","art","arise","activity","does","launched","long","road","exploration","invention","freedom","limits","extravagance","interference","point","frustration","finally","discipline","controlling","constant","change","growth"],"answer":"In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth."},{"words":["error","imagine","evolution","signifies","constant","tendency","increased","perfection","process","undoubtedly","involves","constant","remodelling","organism","adaptation","new","conditions","depends","nature","conditions","directions","modifications","effected","shall","upward","downward"],"answer":"It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward."},{"words":["help","feeble","support"],"answer":"It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after."},{"words":["open","loyal","true","humane","affable","demeanour","honourable","judgement","faithful","word","law","faithful","alike","god","mansuch","man","true","gentleman"],"answer":"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."},{"words":["risks","costs","program","action","far","longrange","risks","costs","comfortable","inaction"],"answer":"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."},{"words":["weak","man","doubts","decision","strong","man"],"answer":"A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards."},{"words":["man","right","dictate","men","perceive","create","produce","encouraged","reveal","perceptions","emotions","build","confidence","creative","spirit"],"answer":"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."},{"words":["say","little","easy","add","having","said","hard","withdraw","quickly","hinder","harm","success"],"answer":"If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success."},{"words":["change","unless","accept","condemnation","does","liberate","oppresses"],"answer":"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. 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It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle."},{"words":["despise","books","lives","absorbed","vanities","ambition","pursuit","pleasure","indolence","remember","known","world","excepting","savage","nations","governed","books"],"answer":"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."},{"words":["good","book","best","friends","today","forever"],"answer":"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."},{"words":["books","hindrances","persisting","stupidity"],"answer":"Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity."},{"words":["reading","mind","exercise","body"],"answer":"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."},{"words":["best","effect","book","excites","reader","selfactivity"],"answer":"The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity."},{"words":["man","prefers","country","duty","shows","spirit","man","surrenders","right","state","deny","right","superior","authority"],"answer":"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. 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If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."},{"words":["way","combat","noxious","ideas","ideas","way","combat","falsehoods","truth"],"answer":"The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth."},{"words":["believe","good","authority","report","hurt","unless","greater","hurt","conceal"],"answer":"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."},{"words":["happy","life","consists","tranquillity","mind"],"answer":"A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind."},{"words":["deepest","sin","human","mind","believe","things","evidence"],"answer":"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."},{"words":["peace","absence","war","virtue","state","mind","disposition","benevolence","confidence","justice"],"answer":"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."},{"words":["enjoy","present","pleasures","way","injure","future","ones"],"answer":"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."},{"words":["nearly","legislation","involves","weighing","public","needs","private","desires","likewise","weighing","relative","social","values"],"answer":"Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values."},{"words":["leisure","mother","philosophy"],"answer":"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."},{"words":["proposition","people","best","keepers","liberties","true","worst","conceivable","keepers","judge","act","think","political","body"],"answer":"The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body."},{"words":["great","invigorating","influences","american","life","unorthodox","people","challenge","existing","institution","way","life","say","things","make","people","think"],"answer":"The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think."},{"words":["bad","oppressed","minority","worse","oppressed","majority","reserve","latent","power","masses","called","play","minority","seldom","resist","absolute","entire","people","appeal","redemption","refuge","treason"],"answer":"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason."},{"words":["man","backbites","absent","friend","nay","does","stand","blames","man","angles","bursts","laughter","repute","wit","invent","saw","secret","","man","black","heart","mark","avoid"],"answer":"The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him."},{"words":["really","great","man","known","signs","generosity","design","humanity","execution","moderation","success"],"answer":"A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success."},{"words":["difference","race","reasons","i","fear","war","exist","race","implies","difference","difference","implies","superiority","superiority","leads","predominance"],"answer":"The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance."},{"words":["true","glory","consists","doing","deserves","written","writing","deserves","read","living","make","world","happier","living"],"answer":"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it."},{"words":["reading","ingenious","device","avoiding","thought"],"answer":"Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought."},{"words":["better","remain","silent","thought","fool","speak","remove","doubt"],"answer":"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."},{"words":["important","thing","know","laugh","laughing","somewhat","undignified","smile","smile","right","kind","understanding","friendliness","good","deal","patience"],"answer":"The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience."},{"words":["bird","soars","high","soars","wings"],"answer":"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."},{"words":["i","doubt","prove","faith","exists"],"answer":"I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists."},{"words":["world","grain","sandbr","heaven","wild","flowerbr","hold","infinity","palm","handbr","eternity","hour"],"answer":"To see a world in a Grain of Sand,<br> And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,<br> Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,<br> And eternity in an hour."},{"words":["orator","man","says","thinks","feels","says"],"answer":"An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says."},{"words":["angry","man","thinks"],"answer":"The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can."},{"words":["precedent","embalms","principle"],"answer":"A precedent embalms a principle."},{"words":["boredom","sign","satisfied","ignorance","blunted","apprehension","crass","sympathies","dull","understanding","feeble","powers","attention","irreclaimable","weakness","character"],"answer":"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."},{"words":["use","force","temporary","subdue","moment","does","remove","necessity","subduing","nation","governed","perpetually","conquered"],"answer":"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."},{"words":["let","hate","long","fearbr","oderint","dum","metuant"],"answer":"Let them hate so long as they fear.<br> (Oderint Dum Metuant)"},{"words":["voice","people","voice","godbr","vox","populi","vox","dei"],"answer":"The voice of the people is the voice of God.<br> (Vox Populi, Vox Dei)"},{"words":["man","learn","wisdom","foe"],"answer":"A man may learn wisdom even from a foe."},{"words":["habit","common","continuous","speech","symptom","mental","deficiency"],"answer":"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency."},{"words":["better","late","wide","awake","early","asleep","day"],"answer":"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day."},{"words":["long","little","children","allowed","suffer","true","love","world"],"answer":"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world."},{"words":["greatest","pains","human","nature","pain","new","idea"],"answer":"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."},{"words":["let","determine","die","conquer"],"answer":"Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer."},{"words":["clear","cruel","pen","swordbr","hinc","gham","sit","calmus","saevior","ense","patet"],"answer":"Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.<br> (Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet)"},{"words":["use","doth","breed","habit","man"],"answer":"How use doth breed a habit in a man."},{"words":["mistake","pleasures","pleasures","trouble","quiet","tranquillity","thy","life"],"answer":"Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life."},{"words":["welfare","people","ultimate","lawbr","salus","populi","suprema","est","lex"],"answer":"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.<br> (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)"},{"words":["superior","man","seeks","small","man","seeks",""],"answer":"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. "},{"words":["beauty","sees"],"answer":"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."},{"words":["hegel","right","said","learn","history","man","learn","history"],"answer":"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."},{"words":["duties","aside","hour","bed","perform","soothing","quiet","activities","help","relax"],"answer":"Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax."},{"words":["ambitions","lawful","climb","upward","miseries","credulities","mankind"],"answer":"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."},{"words":["allows","insulted","deserves"],"answer":"He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be."},{"words":["i","beseech","bowels","christ","think","possible","mistaken"],"answer":"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."},{"words":["acknowledge","man","noble","qualitiesstill","bears","bodily","frame","indelible","stamp","lowly","origin"],"answer":"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."},{"words":["government","long","secure","formidable","opposition"],"answer":"No government can be long secure without formidable opposition."},{"words":["early","childhood","lay","foundation","poverty","riches","industry","idleness","good","evil","habits","train","children","teach","right","habits","future","life","safe"],"answer":"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe."},{"words":["happy","man","happy","alonebr","today","ownbr","secure","saybr","tomorrow","thy","worst","i","lived","today"],"answer":"Happy the man, and happy he alone,<br> He, who can call to-day his own:<br> He who, secure within, can say,<br> To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."},{"words":["men","questionsbr","quot","homines","tot","sententiae"],"answer":"So many men so many questions.<br> (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)"},{"words":["i","wish","i","leavebr","i","pray","know","meet"],"answer":"I wish you well and so I take my leave,<br> I Pray you know me when we meet again."},{"words":["lady","bereft","wordsbr","blood","speaks","veinsbr","confusion","powers"],"answer":"Lady you bereft me of all words,<br> Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,<br> And there is such confusion in my powers."},{"words":["grow","old","best"],"answer":"Grow old along with me the best is yet to be."},{"words":["i","convinced","happiness","unhappiness","depends","far","way","meet","events","life","nature","events"],"answer":"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves."},{"words":["speak","happiness","fortunate"],"answer":"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."},{"words":["men","virtue","withstand","highest","bidder"],"answer":"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."},{"words":["hear","sidebr","audi","partem","alteram"],"answer":"Hear the other side.<br> (Audi Partem Alteram)"},{"words":["necessary","things","unity","doubtful","things","liberty","things","charity"],"answer":"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity."},{"words":["concerns","think","companions","know","world"],"answer":"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world."},{"words":["man","demolished"],"answer":"No man is demolished but by himself."},{"words":["object","government","peace","war","glory","rulers","races","happiness","common","man"],"answer":"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man."},{"words":["sword","outwears","sheathbr","soul","wears","breastbr","heart","pause","breathbr","love","rest"],"answer":"For the sword outwears its sheath,<br> And the soul wears out the breast,<br> And the heart must pause for breath,<br> And love itself have rest."},{"words":["history","philosophy","teaching","example","warning","eyes","geography","chronology"],"answer":"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."},{"words":["honour","life","grow","honour","life"],"answer":"Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done."},{"words":["affection","beaming","eye","calculation","shining"],"answer":"With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other."},{"words":["property","duties","rights"],"answer":"Property has its duties as well as its rights."},{"words":["far","numerous","herd","suchbr","think","little","talk"],"answer":"But far more numerous was the herd of such,<br> Who think too little and who talk too much."},{"words":["beat","iron","hot","polish","leisure"],"answer":"We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure."},{"words":["mind","kingdom","isbr","present","joys","i","findbr","excels","bliss"],"answer":"My mind to me a kingdom is,<br> Such present joys therein I find,<br> That it excels all other bliss."},{"words":["dull","cause","dullness"],"answer":"He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others."},{"words":["merely","corroborative","intended","artistic","verisimilitude","bald","unconvincing","narrative"],"answer":"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."},{"words":["idle","solitary","solitary","idle"],"answer":"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."},{"words":["praising","lost","makes","remembrance","dear"],"answer":"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear."},{"words":["history","voice","forever","sounding","centuries","laws","right","wrong","opinions","alter","manners","change","creeds","rise","fall","moral","law","written","tablets","eternity"],"answer":"History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity."},{"words":["taxation","representation","tyranny"],"answer":"Taxation without representation is tyranny."},{"words":["comments","free","facts","sacred"],"answer":"Comments are free but facts are sacred."},{"words":["need","leave","room","remain","sitting","table","listen","listen","simply","wait","quiet","solitary","world","freely","offer","unmasked","choice","roll","ecstasy","feet"],"answer":"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."},{"words":["readiness","speech","inability","hold","tongue"],"answer":"Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue."},{"words":["character","man","known","conversations"],"answer":"The character of a man is known from his conversations."},{"words":["music","like","religion","unconditionally","brings","train","moral","virtues","heart","enters","heart","worthy"],"answer":"Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy."},{"words":["dare","wisebr","sapere","aude"],"answer":"Dare to be wise.<br> (Sapere Aude)"},{"words":["does","prove","thing","right","majority","say"],"answer":"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."},{"words":["unity","things","necessary","liberty","things","doubtful","charity"],"answer":"Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything."},{"words":["know","transacted","times","child","use","labors","past","ages","world","remain","infancy","knowledge"],"answer":"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."},{"words":["rest","assured","wounds","heart","noble","man","deeply","thought","honour","assailed"],"answer":"Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed."},{"words":["harken","evil","conversation","road","wickedness","pravis","assuescere","sermonibus","est","ad","rem","ipsam"],"answer":"To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)"},{"words":["learn","meaning","say","speak"],"answer":"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."},{"words":["blinded","ambition","raises","position","mount","higher","fall","greatest","loss"],"answer":"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."},{"words":["mind","ought","diverted","return","better","thinking"],"answer":"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking."},{"words":["sufferings","fate","inflicts","borne","patience","enemies","inflict","manly","courage"],"answer":"The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage."},{"words":["man","received","benefit","ought","remember","granted","ought","forget","fact"],"answer":"The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once."},{"words":["portent","evil","attached","words","i","say"],"answer":"May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say."},{"words":["courage","i","repel","adversitybr","adversa","virtute","repello"],"answer":"By courage I repel adversity.<br> (Adversa Virtute Repello)"},{"words":["let","desires","ruled","reasonbr","appetitus","rationi","pareat"],"answer":"Let your desires be ruled by reason.<br> (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)"},{"words":["deters","good","man","doing","honourable"],"answer":"Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable."},{"words":["i","man","concerns","humanity"],"answer":"I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me."},{"words":["envy","distinction","i","won","let","envy","toils","honesty","methods","i","gained"],"answer":"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."},{"words":["speak","clearly","speak","carve","word","let","fall"],"answer":"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."},{"words":["thanks","kindness","delayed"],"answer":"There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed."},{"words":["add","insult","injurybr","injuriae","addis","contumeliam"],"answer":"You add insult to injury.<br> (Injuriae Addis Contumeliam)"},{"words":["agreeable","conversation","thinks","intends","say","saying","listens","chance","speak"],"answer":"Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak."},{"words":["light","grief","counsel"],"answer":"It is light grief that can take counsel."},{"words":["leave","till","tomorrow","today"],"answer":"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."},{"words":["politician","thinks","election","statesman","generation"],"answer":"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation."},{"words":["education","like","doubleedged","sword","turned","dangerous","uses","properly","handled"],"answer":"Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled."},{"words":["words","actions","assassins","idealism"],"answer":"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."},{"words":["buy","rumor","sell","news"],"answer":"Buy on the rumor; sell on the news."},{"words":["i","great","thing","world","stand","direction","moving"],"answer":"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."},{"words":["sick","i","idle","words","past","reconcilingbr","words","weary","perplex","pander","concealbr","wake","sounds","lie","sweet","beguilingbr","language","need","fathom","hear","feel"],"answer":"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,<br> Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal,<br> Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling;<br> The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel."},{"words":["growing","like","treebr","bulk","doth","make","man","better","bebr","standing","long","oak","yearbr","fall","log","dry","bald","serebr","lily","daybr","fairer","maybr","fall","die","nightbr","plant","flower","lightbr","small","proportions","just","beauties","seebr","short","measures","life","perfect"],"answer":"It is not growing like a tree<br> in bulk doth make man better be;<br> Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,<br> To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere,<br> A lily of a day<br> is fairer in May<br> Although it fall and die that night,<br> It was the plant of flower and light,<br> In small proportions we just beauties see;<br> And in short measures, life may perfect be."},{"words":["radiance","brightbr","forever","taken","sightbr","bring","hourbr","splendour","grass","glory","flowerbrgrief","findbr","strength","remains","behindbr","primal","sympathybr","having","bebr","soothing","thoughts","springbr","human","sufferingbr","faith","looks","deathbr","years","bring","philophic","mind"],"answer":"What though the radiance which was once so bright<br> Be not forever taken from my sight,<br> Though nothing can bring back the hour<br> Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;<br>Grief not, rather find,<br> Strength in what remains behind,<br> In the primal sympathy<br> Which having been must ever be,<br> In the soothing thoughts that spring<br> Out of Human suffering,<br> In the faith that looks through death<br> In years that bring philophic mind."},{"words":["nay","tempt","love","againbr","time","love","sweetbr","dear","nea","i","known","thee","thenbr","souls","slow","meetbr","oh","weary","heart","hath","runbr","time","rounds","painbr","thee","thou","lovely","onebr","i","endure","pangs"],"answer":"Nay, tempt me not to love again:<br> There was a time when love was sweet;<br> Dear Nea! had I known thee then,<br> Our souls had not been slow to meet!<br> But oh! this weary heart hath run<br> So many a time the rounds of pain,<br> Not even for thee, thou lovely one!<br> Would I endure such pangs again."},{"words":["discourtesy","does","spring","merely","bad","quality","severalfrom","foolish","vanity","ignorance","indolence","stupidity","distraction","thought","contempt","jealousy"],"answer":"Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy."},{"words":["knowledge","essential","conquest","according","ignorance","helpless","thought","creates","character","character","dominate","conditions","creates","circumstances","environment"],"answer":"Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment."},{"words":["dangerous","ignorant","friendbr","wise","enemy","worth"],"answer":"Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend;<br> A wise enemy is worth more."},{"words":["thy","words","i","grant","bigger","i","wear","dagger","mouth"],"answer":"Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth."},{"words":["lose","fly","catch","trout"],"answer":"You must lose a fly to catch a trout."},{"words":["talk","wasted","affection","affection","wastedbr","enrich","heart","waters","returningbr","springs","like","rain","shall","refreshmentbr","fountain","sends","forth","returns","fountain"],"answer":"Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,<br> If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning<br> Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment;<br> That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."},{"words":["people","vote","resentment","appreciation","average","man","does","vote"],"answer":"People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something."},{"words":["let","arms","place","robe","laurel","warriors","yield","tongue","orator"],"answer":"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."},{"words":["earkissing","arguments"],"answer":"For they are yet ear-kissing arguments."},{"words":["i","cruel","kindbr","bad","begins","worse","remains"],"answer":"I must be cruel only to be kind;<br> Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."},{"words":["thou","art","comfortbr","gods","diet"],"answer":"Thou art all the comfort,<br> The Gods will diet me with."},{"words":["remember","thisthat","proper","dignity","proportion","observed","performance","act","life"],"answer":"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."},{"words":["i","argument","i","obliged","understanding"],"answer":"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."},{"words":["art","make","suit","clothes","nature","produce","man",""],"answer":"Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man. "},{"words":["i","pray","thee","cease","thy","counselbr","falls","ears","profitlessbr","water","sieve"],"answer":"I pray thee cease thy counsel,<br> Which falls into mine ears as profitless<br> as water in a sieve."},{"words":["demand","days","men","make","wrong","appear","right"],"answer":"There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right."},{"words":["shortest","surest","way","live","honour","world","reality","appear","observe","shall","human","virtues","increase","strengthen","practice"],"answer":"The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."},{"words":["let","doingbr","heart","fatebr","achieving","pursuingbr","learn","labour","wait"],"answer":"Let us, then be up and doing,<br> With a heart for any fate;<br> Still achieving, still pursuing,<br> Learn to labour and to wait."},{"words":["fair","outward","viewbr","maidens","bebr","loveliness","i","knewbr","smiled","mebr","oh","i","saw","eye","brightbr","love","spring","lightbr"],"answer":"She is not fair to outward view<br> As many maidens be;<br> Her loveliness I never knew<br> Until she smiled on me;<br> Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,<br> A well of love, a spring of light.<br>"},{"words":["tis","witching","hour","nightbr","orbed","moon","brightbr","stars","glisten","glistenbr","bright","eyes","listenbr","listen"],"answer":"Tis the witching hour of night,<br> Orbed is the moon and bright,<br> And the stars they glisten, glisten,<br> Seeming with bright eyes to listen<br> For what listen they?"},{"words":["assume","virtue"],"answer":"Assume a virtue, if you have it not."},{"words":["courage","ignorant","great","number","things","order","avoid","calamity","ignorant"],"answer":"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."},{"words":["long","thou","ignorant","ashamed","learn","ignorance","greatest","infirmities","justified","chiefest","follies"],"answer":"So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies."},{"words":["avoid","crowd","thinking","independently","chess","player","chess","piece"],"answer":"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece."},{"words":["rest","faults","lie","gently"],"answer":"So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!"},{"words":["life","gentle","elementsbr","mixed","nature","stand","upbr","say","world","man"],"answer":"His life was gentle; and the elements<br> So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,<br> And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!"},{"words":["born","comebr","great","stage","fools"],"answer":"When we are born, we cry, that we are come<br> To this great stage of fools."},{"words":["cowards","cruel","bravebr","love","mercy","delight","save"],"answer":"Cowards are cruel, but the brave<br> Love mercy, and delight to save."},{"words":["glory","built","selfish","principles","shame","guilt"],"answer":"Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt."},{"words":["cease","joy","glimmer","mindbr","leaveoh","leave","light","hope"],"answer":"Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,<br> But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind."},{"words":["overlook","deeds","know","crime","absent","inclination"],"answer":"Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination."},{"words":["forming","characters","momentous","fact","lies","peril","responsibility","existence"],"answer":"Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence."},{"words":["react","way","winning","losing","big","accomplishment","quality","important","stays","rest","life"],"answer":"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life."},{"words":["advice","judged","results","intentions"],"answer":"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."},{"words":["men","agreements","advantage","break"],"answer":"Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them."},{"words":["i","submit","individual","breaks","law","conscience","tells","unjust","willingly","accepts","penalty","imprisonment","order","arouse","conscience","community","injustice","reality","expressing","highest","respect","law"],"answer":"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."},{"words":["conscience","reputation","things","conscience","reputation","neighbour"],"answer":"Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour."},{"words":["fair","good","nightbr","pleasing","dreams","slumbers","light"],"answer":"To all, to each, a fair good night,<br> And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."},{"words":["injured","thee","stronger","weaker","thee","weaker","spare","stronger","spare","thyself"],"answer":"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."},{"words":["i","thought","thousand","swords","leaped","scabbards","avenge","look","threatened","insult","age","chivalry","gone"],"answer":"I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone."},{"words":["man","hit","mark","blunder","heed","distinctions","alliance","working","great","things","born"],"answer":"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."},{"words":["wit","man","devised","sure","established","continuance","time","hath","corrupted"],"answer":"There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted."},{"words":["mild","mild","shrewd","crafty","confiding","honest","rough","ruffian","thunderbolt","liar","unmindful","dignity"],"answer":"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity."},{"words":["human","nature","constitutes","evidence","case"],"answer":"Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case."},{"words":["deemed","consent","mistake"],"answer":"He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake."},{"words":["wise","instructed","reason","ordinary","minds","experience","stupid","necessity","brutes","instinct"],"answer":"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."},{"words":["wretched","mind","man","conscious","guilt"],"answer":"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt."},{"words":["act","act"],"answer":"An act against my will is not my act."},{"words":["conscience","people","power"],"answer":"The conscience of a people is their power."},{"words":["presumption","means","stated","lord","mansfield","weighing","probabilities","deciding","powers","common","sense","truth"],"answer":"Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is."},{"words":["o","truth","truth","thebr","eyesbr","look","diverse","thingsbr"],"answer":"But O the truth, the truth. The<br> many eyes<br> That look on it! The diverse things<br> they see."},{"words":["overcomes","force","hath","overcome","half","foe"],"answer":"Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe."},{"words":["good","devout","man","makes","inner","preparation","actions","later","perform","outward","actions","draw","lust","vice","bends","shape","reason","right","judgement","stiffer","battle","fight","man","striving","conquer"],"answer":"The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself."},{"words":["violates","right","order","capital","employees","working","wageearning","classes","divert","business","economic","activity","entirely","arbitrary","advantage","social","character","economic","life","social","justice","common","good"],"answer":"It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good."},{"words":["modern","man","victim","instruments","values","gain","power","mastery","natural","forces","scientific","addition","knowledge","proved","potentially","dangerous","accompanied","equal","gains","selfunderstanding","selfdiscipline"],"answer":"Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline."},{"words":["sweet","soothing","hour","calm","i","thank","thee","night","thou","chased","away","horrid","bodements","amidst","throng","i","dissipate","blessing","thy","benign","quiet","influence","i","couch","rest","wronging","night"],"answer":"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this."},{"words":["mistake","suppose","passions","strongest","youth","passions","stronger","control","weaker","easily","excited","violent","apparent","energy","durability","intense","concentrated","power","maturer","life"],"answer":"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life."},{"words":["principles","planted","thy","bosom","grow","day","reach","maturity","maturity","thou","wilt","thy","heaven","thy","hell"],"answer":"The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell."},{"words":["property","left","child","soon","lost","inheritance","virtuea","good","unblemished","reputationwill","abide","forever","toiling","wealth","leave","children","half","pains","secure","virtuous","habits","serviceable","largest","property","wrested","child","virtue","stand"],"answer":"Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last."},{"words":["i","conceive","essential","task","religion","develop","consciences","ideals","aspirations","mankind",""],"answer":"I conceive the essential task of religion to be \"to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind\". "},{"words":["i","pray","bear","henceforth","noise","rumour","field","i","think","remnant","thoughts","peace","body","soul","contemplation","devout","desires"],"answer":"I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires."},{"words":["prepare","mind","forcible","appeal","opening","quotation","symphony","preluding","chords","tones","harmonize"],"answer":"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize."},{"words":["art","man","master","art","reflection","thinking","man","purpose","man"],"answer":"There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?"},{"words":["repentance","begin","instantly","reformation","requires","sphere","years"],"answer":"Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years."},{"words":["respect","guides","morals","deference","governs","manners"],"answer":"To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners."},{"words":["man","life","dishonourable","entitled","escape","disgrace","death"],"answer":"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."},{"words":["peace","sweet","thing","beneficial","great","difference","peace","servitude","peace","freedom","tranquillity","servitude","worst","evils","resisted","war","death"],"answer":"The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death."},{"words":["men","decide","far","problems","hate","love","lust","rage","sorrow","joy","hope","fear","illusion","inward","emotion","reality","authority","legal","standard","judicial","precedent","statute"],"answer":"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute."},{"words":["seeking","power","poorest","man","useful"],"answer":"To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful."},{"words":["ready","tears","sign","treachery","grief"],"answer":"Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief."},{"words":["writing","source","fountainhead","wise","thinking"],"answer":"Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking."},{"words":["adversary","prowess","shrivels","great","efficient","really","shows","endurance","capable"],"answer":"Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of."},{"words":["fight","verbosity","words","speech","given","intelligence"],"answer":"Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few."},{"words":["think","greatest","impiety","prefer","life","disgrace","sake","life","lose","reason","living"],"answer":"Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living."},{"words":["natural","abilities","like","natural","plants","need","pruning","study"],"answer":"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."},{"words":["minimal","art","maximum","explanation"],"answer":"The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation."},{"words":["civilization","begins","order","grows","liberty","dies","chaos"],"answer":"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos."},{"words":["say","i","leisure","i","study","leisure"],"answer":"Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure."},{"words":["conversation","pleasant","scurrility","witty","affectation","free","indecency","learned","conceitedness","novel","falsehood"],"answer":"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."},{"words":["surest","way","corrupt","youth","instruct","hold","higher","esteem","think","alike","think","differently"],"answer":"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."},{"words":["wretched","soul","bruised","adversitybr","bid","quiet","hear","br","burdened","like","weight","painbr","complain"],"answer":"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,<br> We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; <br> But were we burdened with like weight of pain,<br> As much or more we should ourselves complain."},{"words":["grief","agony","instant","indulgence","grief","blunder","life"],"answer":"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."},{"words":["public","confidence","integrity","government","indispensable","faith","democracy","lose","faith","lost","faith","fight","spend"],"answer":"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for."},{"words":["said","moral","test","government","government","treats","dawn","life","children","twilight","life","elderly","shadows","life","sick","needy","handicapped"],"answer":"It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."},{"words":["i","bound","thee","answers"],"answer":"I am not bound to please thee with my answers."},{"words":["great","act","thought"],"answer":"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."},{"words":["peace","heaven","theirs","lift","swords","just","charitable","war"],"answer":"The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war."},{"words":["i","hate","ingratitude","manbr","lying","vainness","babbling","drunkennessbr","taint","vice","strong","corruptionbr","inhabits","frail","blood"],"answer":"I hate ingratitude more in a man<br> than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,<br> or any taint of vice whose strong corruption<br> inhabits our frail blood."},{"words":["man","wish","write","clear","style","let","clear","thoughts","write","noble","style","let","possess","noble","soul"],"answer":"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."},{"words":["thou","shalt","plaintiff","judge","thine","cause"],"answer":"Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause."},{"words":["trust","i","innocencebr","i","bold","resolute"],"answer":"The trust I have is in mine innocence,<br> and therefore am I bold and resolute."},{"words":["know","yourselfbr","reflection","i","glassbr","modestly","discover","yourselfbr","know"],"answer":"And since you know you cannot see yourself,<br> so well as by reflection, I, your glass,<br> will modestly discover to yourself,<br> that of yourself which you yet know not of."},{"words":["god","bless","thee","meekness","thy","mind","love","charity","obedience","true","duty"],"answer":"God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!"},{"words":["artificial","reinforcement","offset","natural","inequalities","human","individuals"],"answer":"No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals."},{"words":["make","feel","inferior","consent"],"answer":"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."},{"words":["bear","mind","resolution","succeed","important","thing"],"answer":"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."},{"words":["injury","man","severe","vengeance","need","feared"],"answer":"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."},{"words":["truth","suffers","heat","defenders","arguments","opposers"],"answer":"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."},{"words":["i","man","i","hold","human","alien"],"answer":"I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me."},{"words":["true","philosophy","invents","merely","establishes","describes"],"answer":"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is."},{"words":["i","good","i","feel","good","i","bad","i","feel","bad","religion"],"answer":"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."},{"words":["unto","unto","tastes"],"answer":"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. 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The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."},{"words":["history","short","trudge","adam","atom"],"answer":"History is the short trudge from Adam to atom."},{"words":["world","given","prize","men","earnest","true","world","truer","world","come"],"answer":"This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come."},{"words":["i","went","woods","i","wished","live","deliberately","essential","facts","life","i","learn","teach","i","came","die","discover","i","lived"],"answer":"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."},{"words":["fact","man","knows","right","wrong","proves","intellectual","superiority","creatures","fact","wrong","proves","moral","inferiority","creature"],"answer":"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."},{"words":["better","deserve","honors","deserve"],"answer":"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."},{"words":["people","strictly","deprive","eatable","drinkable","smokable","way","acquired","shady","reputation","pay","price","health","health","strange","like","paying","fortune","cow","gone","dry"],"answer":"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."},{"words":["great","spirits","encountered","opposition","mediocre","minds","mediocre","mind","incapable","understanding","man","refuses","bow","blindly","conventional","prejudices","chooses","instead","express","opinions","courageously","honestly"],"answer":"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."},{"words":["men","fear","thought","fear","earth","","ruin","","death","thought","subversive","revolutionary","destructive","terrible","thought","merciless","privilege","established","institutions","comfortable","habit","thought","looks","pit","hell","afraid","thought","great","swift","free","light","world","chief","glory","man"],"answer":"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."},{"words":["amendment","inconvenient","point","inconvenience","does","absolve","government","obligation","tolerate","speech"],"answer":"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."},{"words":["heaven","interesting","people","missing"],"answer":"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."},{"words":["say","religion","known","god","evidence","world","sought","life","honest","dutiful","society","religion","regulated","bad"],"answer":"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."},{"words":["wish","success","life","make","perseverance","bosom","friend","experience","wise","counselor","caution","elder","brother","hope","guardian","genius"],"answer":"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."},{"words":["roads","diverged","wood","ibr","i","took","traveled","br","difference"],"answer":"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br> I took the one less traveled by, <br> And that has made all the difference."},{"words":["came","communists","i","communist","i","did","speak","came","socialists","trade","unionists","i","i","did","speak","came","jews","i","jewish","i","did","speak","came","left","speak"],"answer":"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."},{"words":["stupid","man","doing","ashamed","declares","duty"],"answer":"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."},{"words":["television","truly","democratic","culture","","culture","available","everybody","entirely","governed","people","want","terrifying","thing","people","want"],"answer":"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. 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The unconstitutional takes a little longer."},{"words":["villainy","world","great","man","run","legs","stolen","fom","underneath"],"answer":"For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him."},{"words":["i","chose","word","shaken","choice","mistaken",""],"answer":"I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken "},{"words":["men","taught","virtue","agree","creator","man","disagrees","men","taught","virtue","swim","current","creator","man","goes","current","men","taught","virtue","stand","creator","man","stands"],"answer":"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. 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That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner."},{"words":["i","honestly","say","slaves","press","i","love","affairs","given","credit","i","speaking","jar","harvard","medical","school"],"answer":"I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School."},{"words":["groups","men","want","make","inconsistent","kinds","worlds","i","remedy","force","society","rests","death","men"],"answer":"Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men."},{"words":["define","moment","moment","define"],"answer":"Either define the moment or the moment will define you."},{"words":["clings","historically","untrue","","thoroughly","immoral","","doctrine","violence","settles","i","advise","conjure","ghosts","napoleon","bonaparte","duke","wellington","let","debate","ghost","hitler","referee","violence","naked","force","settled","issues","history","factor","contrary","opinion","wishful","thinking","worst","breeds","forgot","basic","truth","paid","lives","freedoms"],"answer":"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms."},{"words":["know","life","breathed","easier","lived","succeeded"],"answer":"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."},{"words":["year","i","went","fishing","salvador","dali","using","dotted","line","caught","fish"],"answer":"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish."},{"words":["social","history","western","world","past","decades","involved","replacing","worked","sounded","good"],"answer":"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."},{"words":["social","history","western","world","past","decades","involved","replacing","worked","sounded","good","area","area","","crime","education","housing","race","relations","","situation","gotten","worse","bright","new","theories","operation","amazing","thing","history","failure","disaster","discouraged","social","engineers","discredited"],"answer":"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."},{"words":["ultimate","result","shielding","men","effects","folly","world","fools"],"answer":"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."},{"words":["criticism","man","protest","defend","act","spite","gradually","yield"],"answer":"Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him."},{"words":["truth","people","understand","late","try","avoid","suffering","suffer","smaller","insignificant","things","begin","torture","proportion","fear","hurt"],"answer":"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."},{"words":["thought","brave","afraid","run","away"],"answer":"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."},{"words":["fanaticism","consists","redoubling","effort","forgotten","aim"],"answer":"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."},{"words":["cowards","courage"],"answer":"Many would be cowards if they had courage enough."},{"words":["mistakes","obviously","needs","improving","mistakes","know","work"],"answer":"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"},{"words":["avoid","situations","make","mistakes","biggest","mistake"],"answer":"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."},{"words":["resentment","anger","directed","othersat","did","did"],"answer":"Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do."},{"words":["guilt","anger","directed","ourselvesat","did","did"],"answer":"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do."},{"words":["people","weigh","guilt","feel","pleasure","forbidden","action","want"],"answer":"Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take."},{"words":["early","lessons","acceptance","successful","early","lessons","anger","happier"],"answer":"If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be."},{"words":["desire","know","art","living","friend","contained","phrase","make","use","suffering"],"answer":"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."},{"words":["use","fear","friend","retrain","reprogram","ourselveswe","persistently","convincingly","tell","fear","herewith","gift","energy","heightened","awarenessso","best","learn","new","situation"],"answer":"To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation."},{"words":["severe","pain","illness","severe","necessary","changes","involve","breaking","bad","habits","acquiring","new","better","ones"],"answer":"The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones."},{"words":["simple","solution","disappointment","depression","moving","physically","act","going"],"answer":"The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going."},{"words":["acceptance","important","commodity","called","law","personal","growth"],"answer":"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it \"the first law of personal growth.\""},{"words":["i","think","talking","course","woman","talking","best","inspiration","wants","corresponding","divine","quality","receptiveness","woman"],"answer":"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?"},{"words":["time","repair","roof","sun","shining"],"answer":"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."},{"words":["management","motivating","people"],"answer":"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."},{"words":["wish","weep","mourn"],"answer":"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."},{"words":["small","opportunities","beginning","great","enterprises"],"answer":"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."},{"words":["laughing","sensation","feeling","good","showing","principally","spot"],"answer":"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot."},{"words":["trees","slow","grow","bear","best","fruit"],"answer":"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."},{"words":["right","time","helps","right","time"],"answer":"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."},{"words":["man","travels","world","search","needs","returns","home"],"answer":"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."},{"words":["make","living","makes","life"],"answer":"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."},{"words":["great","achieved","enthusiasm"],"answer":"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."},{"words":["search","place","invest","humanity"],"answer":"Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity."},{"words":["major","problems","governing","people","manages","people","let","known","fact","people","want","rule","people","ipso","facto","suited","capable","getting","position","power","account","allowed","job","problem","governing","people","people"],"answer":"One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. 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They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."},{"words":["greatest","important","problems","life","fundamentally","insoluble","solved","outgrown"],"answer":"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."},{"words":["oligarch","tyrant","mistrust","people","deprive","arms"],"answer":"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."},{"words":["smart","engage","politics","punished","governed","dumber"],"answer":"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."},{"words":["science","perception"],"answer":"Science is nothing but perception."},{"words":["affairs","men","worthy","great","anxiety"],"answer":"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."},{"words":["travel","remember","foreign","country","designed","make","comfortable","designed","make","people","comfortable"],"answer":"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."},{"words":["better","cruel","truth","comfortable","delusion"],"answer":"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."},{"words":["hierarchical","institutions","like","giant","bulldozers","obedient","whim","fool","takes","controls"],"answer":"Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls."},{"words":["good","people","need","laws","tell","act","responsibly","bad","people","way","laws"],"answer":"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."},{"words":["use","strong","language","express","powerful","emotion","evoke"],"answer":"We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us."},{"words":["patriot","ready","defend","country","government"],"answer":"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."},{"words":["greeks","invented","logic","fooled"],"answer":"The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it."},{"words":["rudiments","reverence","human","body","consider","rape","human","mind"],"answer":"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."},{"words":["gifted","members","human","species","creative","best","way","compensate","miss","realizing","cultivating","capacities","talents"],"answer":"The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents."},{"words":["leaders","strive","turn","followers","children"],"answer":"All leaders strive to turn their followers into children."},{"words":["propaganda","does","deceive","people","merely","helps","deceive"],"answer":"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."},{"words":["far","laws","mathematics","refer","reality","certain","far","certain","refer","reality"],"answer":"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."},{"words":["kinds","people","finish","start"],"answer":"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."},{"words":["i","believe","god","just","week","i","got","tongue","caught","roller","electric","typewriter"],"answer":"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"},{"words":["travel","thy","equals","thy","betters","travel"],"answer":"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone."},{"words":["wise","learn","experience","creative","know","make","crumb","experience","long","way"],"answer":"The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way."},{"words":["people","bite","hand","feeds","usually","lick","boot","kicks"],"answer":"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."},{"words":["invisible","unpleasant","truth","held","eyes","pushed","noses","rammed","throats","know"],"answer":"To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not."},{"words":["truly","literate","read","heart"],"answer":"No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart."},{"words":["uncompromising","attitude","indicative","inner","uncertainty","deep","conviction","implacable","stand","directed","doubt","assailant"],"answer":"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without."},{"words":["remarkable","thing","really","love","neighbors","unto","unto","hate","hate","tolerant","tolerate","forgive","forgive","prone","sacrifice","ready","sacrifice"],"answer":"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves."},{"words":["passionate","hatred","meaning","purpose","life","people","haunted","purposelessness","lives","try","new","content","dedicating","holy","cause","nursing","fanatical","grievance","mass","movement","offers","unlimited","opportunities"],"answer":"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both."},{"words":["opposite","religious","fanatic","fanatical","atheist","gentle","cynic","cares","god"],"answer":"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."},{"words":["people","unfit","freedom","","","hungry","power","desire","freedom","attribute","type","self","says","leave","i","shall","grow","learn","realize","capacities","desire","power","basically","attribute","type","self"],"answer":"People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a \"have\" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a \"have not\" type of self."},{"words":["basic","test","freedom","free","free"],"answer":"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do."},{"words":["safeguard","health","body","soul"],"answer":"Safeguard the health both of body and soul."},{"words":["money","terrible","master","excellent","servant"],"answer":"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."},{"words":["old","houses","mendedbr","cost","little","new",""],"answer":"Old houses mended,<br> Cost little less than new before they "},{"words":["weak","ones","justify","strong"],"answer":"The weak ones are there to justify the strong."},{"words":["god","really","artist","elephat","giraffe","cat","real","style","keeps","trying","new","ideas"],"answer":"God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas."},{"words":["people","general","pretty","trusted","coursewith","clock","freedom","ticking","loud","hereto","eye","fleeting","hour"],"answer":"People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour."},{"words":["thanks","constant","habit","shaking","bottle","life","handed","wine","experience","presently","taste","lees","rising","usual","draught"],"answer":"Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught."},{"words":["common","sense","sense","humor","thing","moving","different","speeds","sense","humor","just","common","sense","dancing"],"answer":"Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."},{"words":["i","impressed","fact","surprising","number","individuals","use","minds","avoid","equal","number","use","minds","amazingly","stupid","way"],"answer":"I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way."},{"words":["chief","lesson","i","learned","long","life","way","make","man","trustworthy","trust","surest","way","make","untrustworthy","distrust","distrust"],"answer":"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust."},{"words":["better","lion","day","sheep","life"],"answer":"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life."},{"words":["let","stain","past","mark","future"],"answer":"Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future."},{"words":["beauty","religious","mania","power","explain","god","satan","accepted","cause","happens","mortal","world","left","chancelogic","happily","tossed","window"],"answer":"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."},{"words":["dies","really","lives"],"answer":"Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives."},{"words":["gravity","habit","hard","shake"],"answer":"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."},{"words":["simply","good","","good"],"answer":"Be not simply good - be good for something."},{"words":["wise","learn","strong","contain","impulses","honored","honor"],"answer":"We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others."},{"words":["straw","vote","shows","way","hot","air","blows"],"answer":"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows."},{"words":["deceived","trust","live","torment","trust"],"answer":"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."},{"words":["life","sobs","sniffles","smiles","sniffles","predominating"],"answer":"Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."},{"words":["i","hope","i","old","i","religious"],"answer":"I hope I never get so old I get religious."},{"words":["direct","people","happiness","happiness","idol","marketplace","direct","mutual","affection","beast","gnawing","prey","happy","human","beings","feel","affection","highest","achievement","aspire"],"answer":"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."},{"words":["problem","problems","problem","expecting","thinking","having","problems","problem"],"answer":"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."},{"words":["bookstore","pieces","evidence","people","thinking"],"answer":"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."},{"words":["incredible","waiting","known"],"answer":"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."},{"words":["i","company","scientists","i","feel","like","shabby","curate","strayed","mistake","room","dukes"],"answer":"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."},{"words":["avarice","envy","pridebr","fatal","sparks","set","hearts","allbr"],"answer":"Avarice, envy, pride,<br> Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all<br> On Fire."},{"words":["pass","city","woebr","pass","eternal","painbr","people","lost","ayebr","justice","founder","fabric","movedbr","rear","task","power","divinebr","supremest","wisdom","primeval","lovebr","things","create","save","thingsbr","eternal","eternal","i","shall","endurebr","hope","abandon","ye","enter","herebr"],"answer":"Through me you pass into the city of woe:<br> Through me you pass into eternal pain:<br> Through me among the people lost for aye.<br> Justice the founder of my fabric moved:<br> To rear me was the task of power divine,<br> Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.<br> Before me things create were none, save things<br> Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.<br> All hope abandon, ye who enter here.<br>"},{"words":["job","world","possibly","dispossess","completely","job","teaching","stand","day","laundry","instance","possession","mind","teaching","utterly","obliterates","cuts","right","essentially","takes","spirit","drags","hide"],"answer":"No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide."},{"words":["meanest","flower","blows","thoughts","lie","deep","tears"],"answer":"To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."},{"words":["separation","liberty","justice","opinion","safe"],"answer":"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."},{"words":["doubt","tell","truth"],"answer":"When in doubt, tell the truth."},{"words":["world","late","soonbr","getting","spending","lay","waste","powersbr","little","nature","oursbr","given","hearts","away","sordid","boon"],"answer":"The world is too much with us; late and soon,<br> Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:<br> Little we see in Nature that is ours;<br> We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!"},{"words":["books","legacies","great","genius","leaves","mankind","delivered","generation","generation","presents","posterity","unborn"],"answer":"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."},{"words":["education","companion","misfortune","depress","crime","destroy","enemy","alienateno","despotism","enslave","home","friend","abroad","introduction","solitude","solace","society","ornamentit","chastens","vice","guides","virtue","gives","grace","government","genius","man","splendid","slave","reasoning","savage"],"answer":"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."},{"words":["millions","men","lived","fight","build","palaces","boundaries","shape","destinies","societies","compelling","force","times","force","originality","creation","profoundly","affecting","roots","human","spirit"],"answer":"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."},{"words":["poor","complain","governed","badly","rich","complain","governed"],"answer":"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."},{"words":["great","secrets","life","things","worth","doing"],"answer":"It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others."},{"words":["believe","thing","right"],"answer":"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."},{"words":["shall","defend","island","cost","shall","fight","beaches","shall","fight","landing","grounds","shall","fight","fields","streets","shall","fight","hills","shall","surrender"],"answer":"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."},{"words":["gods","let","love","wise","time"],"answer":"The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time."},{"words":["look","sentences","true","question"],"answer":"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."},{"words":["judge","character","treat"],"answer":"You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them."},{"words":["sin","tools","lie","handle","fits"],"answer":"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all."},{"words":["honour","rooted","dishonour","stoodbr","faith","unfaithful","kept","falsely","true"],"answer":"His honour rooted in dishonour stood,<br> And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."},{"words":["simple","things","life","make","living","worthwhile","","sweet","fundamental","things","love"],"answer":"It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - sweet fundamental things such as love."},{"words":["wear","smile","friendsbr","wear","scowl","wrinkles"],"answer":"Wear a smile and have friends,<br> wear a scowl and have wrinkles."},{"words":["friendships","stood","test","time","change","surely","best"],"answer":"Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best."},{"words":["fight","opinions","believe","contain","truth","truth"],"answer":"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth."},{"words":["critics","friends","faults"],"answer":"Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults."},{"words":["i","feel","little","like","told","owing","woman","enjoys","obligation","woman"],"answer":"I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman."},{"words":["struck","really","lived","period","silence","silence","sacred","hush","finer","clearer","medium","idiosyncrasies","showed"],"answer":"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed."},{"words":["little","learning","dangerous","thing","drink","deep","taste","pierian","spring","shallow","draughts","intoxicate","brain","drinking","largely","sobers"],"answer":"A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."},{"words":["darkness","drive","darkness","light","hate","drive","hate","love"],"answer":"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."},{"words":["women","watching"],"answer":"Because the women are watching."},{"words":["place","stand","i","earth"],"answer":"Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth."},{"words":["science","knows","country","knowledge","belongs","humanity","torch","illuminates","world","science","highest","personification","nation","nation","remain","carries","furthest","works","thought","intelligence"],"answer":"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."},{"words":["technology","knack","arranging","world","experience"],"answer":"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it."},{"words":["said","power","corrupts","actually"],"answer":"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it"},{"words":["incredible","thing","happened","life","fired","15inch","shell","piece","tissue","paper","came","hit"],"answer":"It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you."},{"words":["splitting","atom","like","trying","shoot","gnat","albert","hall","night","using","million","rounds","ammunition","chance","getting","convince","atom","sink","energy","reservoir","energy"],"answer":"Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy."},{"words":["certainly","moments","said","chad","good","true","true","added","need","concern"],"answer":"\"There are certainly moments,\" said Chad, \"when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true,\" he added, \"that seems to be all that need concern me.\""},{"words":["trust","artist","trust","tale"],"answer":"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale."},{"words":["fortunately","appetite","news","pure","flame","disinterested","burned","cave","treasures","lamp","byzantine","vault"],"answer":"She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault."},{"words":["man","knows","unique","human","earth","extraordinary","chance","marvelously","picturesque","piece","diversity","unity","second","time"],"answer":"At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."},{"words":["raise","iq","eating","gifted","children"],"answer":"How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children"},{"words":["important","learning","enjoy","challenge","tolerate","ambiguity","end","certain","answers"],"answer":"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."},{"words":["book","mirror","ass","peers","expect","apostle","peer"],"answer":"A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out."},{"words":["conformity","ruin","mind"],"answer":"Conformity is the ruin of the mind."},{"words":["entertainment","thinking","moment","stopped","clock","promote","minute","livelier","motion"],"answer":"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion."},{"words":["best","remedy","bruised","heart","people","think","repose","manly","bosom","efficacious","honest","work","physical","activity","sudden","acquisition","wealth"],"answer":"The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth."},{"words":["gold","friendsbr","lead","foes"],"answer":"Gold for friends,<br> Lead for foes."},{"words":["day","years","struggle","strike","beautiful"],"answer":"One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."},{"words":["morality","greatest","tools","leading","mankind","nose"],"answer":"Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose."},{"words":["truth","leave","elegance","tailor"],"answer":"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."},{"words":["i","wife","keeps","finding","way"],"answer":"I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back."},{"words":["i","wanted","atheist","i","gave","","holidays"],"answer":"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."},{"words":["wake","morning","race","creed","color","cause","prejudice","noon"],"answer":"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon."},{"words":["i","want","i","work"],"answer":"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."},{"words":["greatest","mistake","trying","agreeable"],"answer":"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."},{"words":["necessary","work","inclination","despair","considered","work","boring","amusing","oneself"],"answer":"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."},{"words":["use","harms","destroys","beauty","noblest","function","object","contemplated"],"answer":"Use harms and even destroys beauty. 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A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty."},{"words":["observation","frequently","employ","surveying","conduct","mankind","marriage","dictate","nature","institution","providence","cause","misery","enter","state","seldom","forbear","express","repentance","envy","chance","caution","hath","withheld"],"answer":"There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it."},{"words":["certainly","getting","ahead","i","moses","joshua","possession","promised","land","psychiatry","i","shall","able","glimpse","afar"],"answer":"We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar."},{"words":["instinct","nearly","societies","lock","anybody","truly","free","society","begins","trying","beat","fails","try","poison","fails","finish","loading","honors","head"],"answer":"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. 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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."},{"words":["recommend","children","virtue","make","happy","gold"],"answer":"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."},{"words":["america","guarantees","equal","opportunity","equal","outcome"],"answer":"America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome."},{"words":["life","fair","elvis","alive","impersonators","dead"],"answer":"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."},{"words":["radical","revolutionary","conservative","day","revolution"],"answer":"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."},{"words":["happiness","sanction","life","happiness","fails","existence","remains","mad","lamentable","experiment"],"answer":"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."},{"words":["music","essentially","useless","life","ideal","extension","lends","utility","conditions"],"answer":"Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions."},{"words":["great","truths","begin","blasphemies"],"answer":"All great truths begin as blasphemies."},{"words":["search","virtues","thyself","thy","vices"],"answer":"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."},{"words":["silence","perfect","expression","scorn"],"answer":"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."},{"words":["hoped","despair"],"answer":"He who has never hoped can never despair."},{"words":["golden","rule","golden","rules"],"answer":"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."},{"words":["beware","man","god","skies"],"answer":"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."},{"words":["fickleness","women","i","love","equalled","infernal","constancy","women","love"],"answer":"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."},{"words":["people","say","life","thing","i","prefer","reading"],"answer":"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."},{"words":["i","tremble","country","i","reflect","god","just","justice","sleep","forever"],"answer":"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever."},{"words":["greatest","need","information","god","sent","educator","greatest","need","technology","god","sent","scientist","greatest","need","money","god","sent","economist","greatest","need","forgiveness","god","sent","savior"],"answer":"If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior."},{"words":["slow","visit","sick"],"answer":"Be not slow to visit the sick."},{"words":["good","book","best","friends","today","forever"],"answer":"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."},{"words":["want","true","measure","man","watch","treats","inferiors","equals"],"answer":"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."},{"words":["united","states","space","anybody","makes","america"],"answer":"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is."},{"words":["woman","man","like","fish","bicycle"],"answer":"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."},{"words":["mathematics","queen","sciences"],"answer":"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences."},{"words":["homely","old","adage","runs","speak","softly","carry","big","stick","far","american","nation","speak","softly","build","pitch","highest","training","thoroughly","efficient","navy","monroe","doctrine","far"],"answer":"There is a homely old adage which runs: \"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.\" If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far."},{"words":["character","developed","ease","quiet","experience","trial","suffering","soul","strengthened","ambition","inspired","success","achieved"],"answer":"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. 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Conclusions are not always pleasant."},{"words":["wheresoever","heart"],"answer":"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."},{"words":["door","happiness","closes","opens","look","long","closed","door","opened"],"answer":"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."},{"words":["people","grow","experience","meet","life","honestly","courageously","character","built"],"answer":"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."},{"words":["i","age","content","place","corner","fireside","simply","look"],"answer":"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."},{"words":["life","meant","lived","curiosity","kept","alive","reason","turn","life"],"answer":"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. 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Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."},{"words":["discretion","better","biography"],"answer":"Discretion is not the better part of biography."},{"words":["i","learned","life","composer","chiefly","mistakes","pursuits","false","assumptions","exposure","founts","wisdom","knowledge"],"answer":"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."},{"words":["stupid","forgive","forget","naive","forgive","forget","wise","forgive","forget"],"answer":"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."},{"words":["things","believed","man","whatsoever","taken","drink"],"answer":"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink."},{"words":["i","deeply","superficial","person"],"answer":"I am a deeply superficial person."},{"words":["walking","best","possible","exercise","habituate","walk","far"],"answer":"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."},{"words":["i","extraordinarily","patient","provided","i","way","end"],"answer":"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."},{"words":["old","age","unexpected","things","happen","man"],"answer":"Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man."},{"words":["president","glorified","public","relations","man","spends","time","flattering","kissing","kicking","people","supposed"],"answer":"All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."},{"words":["barring","natural","expression","villainy","man","looked","honest"],"answer":"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."},{"words":["takes","enemy","friend","working","hurt","slander","news"],"answer":"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you."},{"words":["good","thing","adam","said","good","thing","knew","said"],"answer":"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."},{"words":["human","beings","frightening","convinced","doubt","right"],"answer":"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."},{"words":["twomile","walk","morning","breakfast"],"answer":"Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."},{"words":["conspicuous","consumption","valuable","goods","means","reputability","gentleman","leisure"],"answer":"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."},{"words":["future","famous","minutes"],"answer":"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."},{"words":["women","twice","men","thought","half","good","luckily","difficult"],"answer":"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. 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Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving."},{"words":["suppose","suppose","rich","behave","rich","behave","like","supposing","drink","day","absolutely","sober"],"answer":"To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober."},{"words":["test","vocation","love","drudgery","involves"],"answer":"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves."},{"words":["socialism","capitalism","lower","classes"],"answer":"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes."},{"words":["man","unlike","thing","organic","inorganic","universe","grows","work","walks","stairs","concepts","emerges","ahead","accomplishments"],"answer":"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."},{"words":["i","know","thisa","man","got","got"],"answer":"I know this--a man got to do what he got to do."},{"words":["history","victorian","age","written","know","ignorance","requisite","historian","","ignorance","simplifies","clarifies","selects","omits","placid","perfection","unattainable","highest","art"],"answer":"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."},{"words":["music","best","understood","children","animals"],"answer":"My music is best understood by children and animals."},{"words":["people","want","understand","democracy","spend","time","library","aristotle","time","buses","subway"],"answer":"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway."},{"words":["gentle","good","nightbr","old","age","burn","rave","close","daybr","rage","rage","dying","light"],"answer":"Do not go gentle into that good night,<br> Old age should burn and rave at close of day;<br> Rage, rage against the dying of the light."},{"words":["wise","speed","","fool","fool"],"answer":"Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed."},{"words":["past","dead","thing","smells","sweet"],"answer":"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."},{"words":["contrary","general","belief","i","believe","friends","necessarily","people","like","best","merely","people","got"],"answer":"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."},{"words":["art","imposing","pattern","experience","aesthetic","enjoyment","recognition","pattern"],"answer":"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."},{"words":["civilization","advances","extending","number","important","operations","perform","thinking"],"answer":"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."},{"words":["nice","thing","quotes","nodding","acquaintance","originator","socially","impressive"],"answer":"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."},{"words":["i","depended","kindness","strangers"],"answer":"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."},{"words":["constitution","does","provide","second","class","citizens"],"answer":"The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens."},{"words":["nation","fit","sit","judgement","nation"],"answer":"No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation."},{"words":["thing","man","proud","fight","thing","nation","right","does","need","convince","force","right"],"answer":"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."},{"words":["thoroughly","know","teach"],"answer":"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."},{"words":["world","safe","democracy","peace","planted","tested","foundations","political","liberty"],"answer":"The world must be made safe for democracy.  Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."},{"words":["limits","language","mean","limits","world"],"answer":"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."},{"words":["","world","happy","quite","different","unhappy"],"answer":" The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy."},{"words":["i","know","i","appear","world","i","like","boy","playing","seashore","diverting","finding","smoother","pebble","prettier","shell","ordinary","whilst","great","ocean","truth","lay","undiscovered"],"answer":"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."},{"words":["i","kind","paranoiac","reverse","i","suspect","people","plotting","make","happy"],"answer":"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. 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There is ample proof to the contrary."},{"words":["woman","forgive","man","harm","does","herbut","forgive","sacrifices","makes","account"],"answer":"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."},{"words":["people","carry","perfection","mask","assumed","course","actually","person"],"answer":"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."},{"words":["eye","eye","makes","world","blind"],"answer":"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."},{"words":["convinced","i","seek","convince"],"answer":"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."},{"words":["genius","entitled","respect","promotes","peace","improves","happiness","mankind"],"answer":"Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind."},{"words":["i","afraid","storms","i","learning","sail","ship"],"answer":"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."},{"words":["love","goes","love","schoolboys","books","love","look","school","heavy","looks"],"answer":"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks."},{"words":["greatest","natural","resource","minds","children"],"answer":"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."},{"words":["people","make","things","happen","people","watch","things","happen","people","wonder","happened","successful","need","person","makes","things","happen"],"answer":"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. 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Be noble for you are made of stars."},{"words":["i","conceive","infinite","father","expects","requires","worship","praise","infinitely"],"answer":"I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."},{"words":["gods","fragile","things","killed","whiff","science","dose","common","sense"],"answer":"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."},{"words":["religion","keeps","poor","murdering","rich"],"answer":"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."},{"words":["beauty","religious","mania","power","explain","god","satan","accepted","cause","happens","mortal","world","left","chancelogic","happily","tossed","window"],"answer":"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. 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It makes an awful lot of difference."},{"words":["europe","spreading","wings","freedom","prosperity","peace","truly","proud","moment","european","union","triumph","liberty","democracy","new","members","i","say",""],"answer":"Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: "},{"words":["brave","act","valor","condemn","death","life","terrible","death","truest","valor","dare","live"],"answer":"It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live."},{"words":["mankind","end","war","war","end","mankind"],"answer":"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."},{"words":["life","beautiful","life","sad"],"answer":"Life is beautiful. 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Your job is delaying forever."},{"words":["direct","wind","adjust","sails"],"answer":"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."},{"words":["women","expected","work","men","teach","things"],"answer":"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."},{"words":["way","i","want","rainbow","gotta","rain"],"answer":"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."},{"words":["afraid","good","great"],"answer":"Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."},{"words":["long","run","hit","aim","aim","high"],"answer":"In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high."},{"words":["expose","deepest","fear","fear","power","fear","freedom","shrinks","vanishes","free"],"answer":"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."},{"words":["dance","circle","suppose","secret","sits","middle","knows"],"answer":"We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows."},{"words":["sin","makes","sad","repentant","liked","allah","good","deed","turns","arrogant"],"answer":"The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant."},{"words":["205","greedy","man","shackles","humility"],"answer":"205. A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility."},{"words":["148","does","realize","value","condemned","utter","failure","kind","complex","superiority","inferiority","harmful","man"],"answer":"148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man)."},{"words":["say","say","fewest","possible","words","reader","sure","skip","plainest","possible","words","certainly","misunderstand"],"answer":"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."},{"words":["wise","sayings","fall","barren","ground","kind","word","thrown","away"],"answer":"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."},{"words":["going","war","france","like","going","deer","hunting","accordion","just","leave","lot","useless","noisy","baggage"],"answer":"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind."},{"words":["i","came","discoveries","process","rational","thinking"],"answer":"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."},{"words":["science","compatible","spirituality","profound","source","spirituality"],"answer":"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."},{"words":["peace","kept","force","achieved","understanding"],"answer":"Peace cannot be kept by force. 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The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war."},{"words":["certain","high","level","technical","skill","achieved","science","art","tend","coalesce","esthetics","plasticity","form","greatest","sceintists","artists"],"answer":"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well."},{"words":["destructive","respect","government","law","land","passing","laws","enforced","open","secret","dangerous","increase","crime","counrty","closely","related"],"answer":"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this."},{"words":["anger","dwells","bosom","fools"],"answer":"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."},{"words":["holding","anger","like","grasping","hot","coal","intent","throwing","gets","burned"],"answer":"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."},{"words":["beware","fury","patient","man"],"answer":"Beware of the fury of the patient man."},{"words":["great","anger","destructive","sword"],"answer":"Great anger is more destructive than the sword"},{"words":["accustom","use","big","words","little","matters"],"answer":"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."},{"words":["time","angry","poison"],"answer":"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."},{"words":["begun","anger","ends","shame"],"answer":"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."},{"words":["good","people","need","laws","tell","act","responsibly","bad","people","way","laws"],"answer":"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."},{"words":["essential","know","happy","person","happy","family","happy","society","crucial","good","heart","crucial","world","peach","develop","inner","peace","peace","just","absence","violence","manifestation","human","compassion"],"answer":"It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. 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I hate everyone equally."},{"words":["grasp","subject","words","follow"],"answer":"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."},{"words":["long","experience","taught","status","mankind","regard","matters","requiring","thought","people","know","understand","positively","attempt","argue","concerning","hand","know","understand","multitude","things","renders","men","cautious","passing","judgement","new"],"answer":"Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new."},{"words":["good","sense","things","men","equally","distributed","thinks","abundantly","provided","difficult","satisfy","usually","desire","larger","measure","quality","possess"],"answer":"Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess."},{"words":["chase","dream","count","catch"],"answer":"You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it."},{"words":["door","happiness","closes","opens","look","long","closed","door","opened"],"answer":"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."},{"words":["know","life","breathed","easier","lived","succeeded"],"answer":"To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."},{"words":["people","reach","conclusions","life","like","schoolboys","cheat","master","copying","answer","book","having","worked","sum"],"answer":"There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves."},{"words":["1","civil","disturbance","adopt","attitude","people","attach","importance","","burden","complicated","affairs","try","derive","advantage"],"answer":"1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you."},{"words":["2","greedy","disgraced","discloses","hardship","humiliated","control","tongue","face","discomfort"],"answer":"2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort."},{"words":["experience","possible","language"],"answer":"Experience becomes possible because of language."},{"words":["pleasant","things","unpleasant","things"],"answer":"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others."},{"words":["structure","language","determines","thought","reality"],"answer":"The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself."},{"words":["people","say","love","truth","reality","want","believe","love","true"],"answer":"People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true."},{"words":["going","truth","going","believe"],"answer":"Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?"},{"words":["truth","truth","regardless","lack","understanding","disbelief","ignorance"],"answer":"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance."},{"words":["rich","man","proud","wealth","praised","known","employs"],"answer":"If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."},{"words":["life","like","tenspeed","bike","gears","use"],"answer":"Life is like a ten-speed bike; most of us have gears we never use."},{"words":["people","nation","understand","banking","monetary","did","i","believe","revolution","tomorrow","morning"],"answer":"It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."},{"words":["babylon","violated","diminishes","alexander","rome","enslaved","diminishes","caesar","massacred","jerusalem","diminishes","titus","tyranny","follows","tyrant","woe","man","leaves","shadow","bears","form"],"answer":"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."},{"words":["study","phenomenon","disease","books","sail","uncharted","sea","study","books","patients","sea"],"answer":"To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."},{"words":["let","inferiors","favor","","extremely","costly"],"answer":"Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly."},{"words":["pretend","careful","pretend"],"answer":"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."},{"words":["purpose","human","life","matter","controlling","love","loved"],"answer":"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."},{"words":["i","saw","angel","marble","carved","i","set","free"],"answer":"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free."},{"words":["happens","man","formed","nature","bear"],"answer":"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."},{"words":["perfect","perfect","question","perfect"],"answer":"She is not perfect. 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Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!"},{"words":["i","smoke","moderation","cigar","time"],"answer":"I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time."},{"words":["cleave","faith","faith","brings","blood"],"answer":"Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood."},{"words":["happiest","people","particular","reason","happy"],"answer":"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so."},{"words":["digressions","objections","delight","mockery","carefree","mistrust","signs","health","unconditional","belongs","pathology"],"answer":"Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology."},{"words":["future","thousand","threads","past","fabric","rewoven"],"answer":"The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven."},{"words":["dawn","time","willing","extraordinary","lengths","gain","access","domain","normally","reserved","birds","angels","madmen"],"answer":"Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen."},{"words":["love","perky","elf","dancing","merry","little","jig","suddenly","turns","miniature","machine","gun"],"answer":"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."},{"words":["sweat","peace","bleed","war"],"answer":"The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war."},{"words":["age","believes","short","cut","greatest","lesson","learned","difficult","way","long","run","easiest"],"answer":"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."},{"words":["heritage","choice","united","states","america","make","stand"],"answer":"By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand."},{"words":["i","money","resources","hopes","i","happiest","man","alive"],"answer":"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. 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If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."},{"words":["little","rubs","disappointments","apt","expect","scheme","happiness","fails","human","nature","turns","calculation","wrong","make","second","better","comfort"],"answer":"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."},{"words":["love","wise","wiser","sees","newly","time","looks","object","beloved","drawing","eyes","mind","virtues","possesses"],"answer":"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."},{"words":["poor","mexico","","far","god","close","united","states"],"answer":"Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States."},{"words":["thing","sadder","battle","won","battle","lost"],"answer":"The only thing sadder than a battle won is a battle lost."},{"words":["flaws","i","feel","safer","children","grow","world","dominated","united","states","country"],"answer":"For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country."},{"words":["particularly","hard","divide","small","jobs"],"answer":"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."},{"words":["thing","comes","sleeping","man","dreams"],"answer":"The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams."},{"words":["arrogant","right","surely","better","humble","wrong"],"answer":"Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong."},{"words":["love","substance","lust","illusion","surge","passion","mingle","confusion"],"answer":"Love is substance; Lust, illusion. 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The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary."},{"words":["i","know","course","liberty","death"],"answer":"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"},{"words":["god","addressed","expressed"],"answer":"God can be addressed, but not expressed."},{"words":["better","rely","powerful","king","little","princes"],"answer":"Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes."},{"words":["rap","music","sounds","like","somebody","feeding","rhyming","dictionary","popcorn","popper"],"answer":"Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper."},{"words":["i","discover","scientific","fact","king","persia"],"answer":"I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia."},{"words":["maybe","people","fundamentally","contradictory","real","people","rate"],"answer":"Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate."},{"words":["exists","false","aristocracy","based","family","property","inherited","wealth","likewise","exists","true","aristocracy","based","intelligence","talent","virtue"],"answer":"There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue."},{"words":["meditation","disolves","mind","erases","throws","ego","big","brittle","ass"],"answer":"Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass."},{"words":["exists","atoms","spaceeverything","opinion"],"answer":"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space;everything else is opinion."},{"words":["history","vision","god"],"answer":"History is a vision of God"},{"words":["write","suit","people","like","write","suit","everybody","scarcely","care"],"answer":"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it."},{"words":["laws","justice"],"answer":"The more laws, the less justice."},{"words":["wit","educated","insolence"],"answer":"Wit is educated insolence."},{"words":["thales","primary","question","know","know"],"answer":"To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it."},{"words":["sum","parts"],"answer":"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."},{"words":["mobilized","english","language","sent","battle","steady","fellow","countrymen","hearten","europeans","long","dark","night","tyranny","descended"],"answer":"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended."},{"words":["angels","french","lies","rest","humanity"],"answer":"Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity."},{"words":["sons","bitches"],"answer":"Now we are all sons of bitches."},{"words":["war","way","shattering","pieces","pouring","stratosphere","sinking","depths","sea","materials","used","make","masses","comfortable","long","run","intelligent"],"answer":"War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent."},{"words":["horse","truly","creature","equal","fly","wings","conquer","sword"],"answer":"Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword."},{"words":["praise","youth","prosper"],"answer":"Praise youth and it will prosper."},{"words":["err","human","forgive","divine"],"answer":"To err is human; to forgive, divine."},{"words":["greatness","nation","moral","progress","judged","way","animals","treated"],"answer":"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."},{"words":["time","erase","memory","good","cat","masking","tape","totally","remove","fur","couch"],"answer":"No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch."},{"words":["ephemeralfame","famous"],"answer":"All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well."},{"words":["everybody","likes","wayto","choose","time","manner","devotion"],"answer":"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."},{"words":["i","believe","clergy","ought","rest","nation"],"answer":"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."},{"words":["oh","attack","watch","watch","fast","slow","i","dictated","watch"],"answer":"Oh! do not attack me with your watch. 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There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."},{"words":["large","income","best","recipe","happiness","i","heard"],"answer":"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."},{"words":["amuses","easy","manner","everybody","settles","abundance","great","deal"],"answer":"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."},{"words":["curiosity","killed","cat","i","suspect"],"answer":"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."},{"words":["regret","things","did","tempered","time","regret","things","did","inconsolable"],"answer":"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."},{"words":["men","wait","selected","seek","expect","efficient","service"],"answer":"It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service."},{"words":["mortifying","feel","missed","plum","want","courage","shake","tree"],"answer":"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"},{"words":["birth","age","eighteen","girl","needs","good","parentsbr","eighteen","thirtyfive","needs","good","looksbr","thirtyfive","fiftyfive","needs","good","personalitybr","fiftyfive","needs","good","cash"],"answer":"From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.<br> From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.<br> From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.<br> From fifty-five on, she needs good cash."},{"words":["i","believe","possibility","miracles","point","i","believe","need"],"answer":"I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them."},{"words":["beat","man","strength","argument","strength","arm"],"answer":"Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm."},{"words":["love","crime","denying","having","dreams","crime","chasing","making","mistakes","crime","learning","life","crime","living"],"answer":"Love is not a crime, denying it is. 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It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form."},{"words":["bored","boring"],"answer":"Never be bored, and you will never be boring."},{"words":["pursuit","knowledge","sake","fanatical","love","justice","desire","personal","independence","","features","jewish","tradition","make","thank","stars","i","belong"],"answer":"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it."},{"words":["great","body","jewish","citizens","sprung","men","genius","walk","varied","life","men","conceived","ideals","singular","clearness","led","enterprises","sprit","","sagacity","jews","america","american","citizens"],"answer":"Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens."},{"words":["i","suggest","books","influence","ready","gone","little","farther","particular","path","got"],"answer":"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves."},{"words":["i","eternally","grateful","knack","finding","great","books","funny","books","reason","feel","honored","alive","matter","going"],"answer":"I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."},{"words":["think","stupid","average","person","realize","half","stupider"],"answer":"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."},{"words":["education","admirable","thing","worth","remembering","time","time","worth","knowing","taught"],"answer":"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."},{"words":["men","stupid","concerned","present","needs","let","deceived"],"answer":"Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived."},{"words":["nation","draws","broad","difference","scholars","warriors","thinking","cowards","fighting","fools"],"answer":"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools."},{"words":["better","guide","attend","person"],"answer":"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."},{"words":["land","blind","oneeyed","man","king","br","regione","caecorum","rex","est","luscus"],"answer":"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. <br> [In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]"},{"words":["darkest","places","hell","reserved","maintain","neutrality","times","moral","crisis"],"answer":"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."},{"words":["marriage","state","condition","community","consisting","master","mistress","slaves","making"],"answer":"Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."},{"words":["evolution","crawls","imperfection","ends","extinction"],"answer":"Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction."},{"words":["mirror","sees","reflection"],"answer":"The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself."},{"words":["consult","dragon","wager","hide"],"answer":"Consult your dragon before you wager his hide."},{"words":["instant","learned","jealousy","wanted","know","man","looked","touched","especially","men","kill"],"answer":"In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them."},{"words":["yesterday","killed","foe","serve","fool","walks","future","backward"],"answer":"And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward."},{"words":["used","retribution","magic","vengeance","incarnate"],"answer":"But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate."},{"words":["great","nations","world","starting","different","points","advancing","goal","russians","angloamericanseach","called","secret","design","providence","day","hold","hands","destinies","half","world"],"answer":"There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world."},{"words":["fear","hope","morebr","whine","breathe","morebr","talk","say","morebr","hate","love","morebr","good","things"],"answer":"Fear less, hope more;<br> Whine less, breathe more;<br> Talk less, say more;<br> Hate less, love more;<br> And all good things are yours."},{"words":["i","young","know"],"answer":"I am not young enough to know everything."},{"words":["course","history","owed"],"answer":"Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few."},{"words":["touch","life"],"answer":"All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be."},{"words":["gallant","sailor","intrepid","airman","audacious","soldier","table","sum","fears"],"answer":"Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears."},{"words":["times","general","calamity","confusion","create","great","minds","purest","ore","produced","hottest","furnace","brightest","thunderbolt","elicited","darkest","storms"],"answer":"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."},{"words":["element","attack","track","hunt","destroy","enemy","way","eager","skillful","fighter","pilot","display","ability","tie","narrow","confined","task","rob","initiative","away","best","valuable","qualities","posses","aggressive","spirit","joy","action","passion","hunter"],"answer":"Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter."},{"words":["spirit","attack","born","brave","heart","bring","success","fighter","aircraft","matter","highly","developed"],"answer":"Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be."},{"words":["types","aircraft",""],"answer":"There are only two types of aircraft "},{"words":["aggressive","spirit","offensive","chief","thing","war","air","exception"],"answer":"The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception."},{"words":["i","plentyof","common","sense","i","just","choose","ignore"],"answer":"I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it."},{"words":["supreme","happiness","life","conviction","loved"],"answer":"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."},{"words":["simplest","terms","leader","knows","wants","gets","goes"],"answer":"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes."},{"words":["beautiful","sentiments","world","weigh","single","lovely","action"],"answer":"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."},{"words":["died","laughter"],"answer":"Nobody ever died of laughter."},{"words":["i","born","old","younger","day","present","i","years","young"],"answer":"I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young."},{"words":["generation","imagines","intelligent","went","wiser","comes"],"answer":"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."},{"words":["illegal","businessmen","decide"],"answer":"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."},{"words":["sixteen","i","stupid","confused","insecure","indecisive","twentyfive","i","wise","self","confident","prepossessing","assertive","fortyfive","i","stupid","confused","insecure","indecisive","supposed","maturity","short","break","adolescence"],"answer":"At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. 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It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless."},{"words":["afraid","entrust","american","people","unpleasant","facts","foreign","ideas","alien","philosophies","competitive","values","nation","afraid","let","people","judge","truth","falsehood","open","market","nation","afraid","people"],"answer":"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. 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Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."},{"words":["god","gives","memory","roses","december"],"answer":"God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December."},{"words":["gun","warship","launched","rocket","fired","represents","final","analysis","theft","hunger","fed","cold","clothed","world","arms","spending","money","spending","sweat","laborers","genius","scientists","hopes","children"],"answer":"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. 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You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water."},{"words":["great","ones","prattle"],"answer":"What the great ones do, the less will prattle of"},{"words":["i","installed","skylight","apartment","people","live","furious"],"answer":"I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!"},{"words":["i","went","restaurant","serves","breakfast","time","i","ordered","french","toast","renaissance"],"answer":"I went to a restaurant that serves \"breakfast at any time\". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."},{"words":["i","just","bought","microwave","fireplace","spend","evening","minutes"],"answer":"I just bought a microwave fireplace. 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Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."},{"words":["work","goes","cause","endures","hope","lives","dream","shall","die"],"answer":"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."},{"words":["time","divisions","mark","passage","thunderstorm","blare","trumpets","announce","beginning","new","month","year","new","century","begins","mortals","ring","bells","pistols"],"answer":"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."},{"words":["look","universal","standpoint","inside","reminds","informs","bigger","better","things","worry"],"answer":"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."},{"words":["i","think","boring","american","people","sit","living","rooms","half","hour","looking","face","television","screens"],"answer":"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."},{"words":["evils","i","pick","i","tried"],"answer":"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."},{"words":["regret","having","eaten","little"],"answer":"We never regret having eaten too little."},{"words":["depend","thomas","literature","noble","professions","fact","fit","man","seducing","path"],"answer":"Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path."},{"words":["wanting","dangerously","close","wanting"],"answer":"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."},{"words":["friends","companions","inspire","help","rise","best"],"answer":"Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best."},{"words":["love","divine","ingredient","describes","perfect","relationship","heavenly","father","family","neighbors","means","accomplish","work"],"answer":"Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work."},{"words":["i","fear","i","reason","fear","end","victors","times","flame","liberty","cease","shine","ember","expire"],"answer":"I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire."},{"words":["education","ability","listen","losing","temper"],"answer":"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."},{"words":["man","like","fraction","numerator","denominator","thinks","larger","denominator","smaller","fraction"],"answer":"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."},{"words":["commonsense","appears","thoughtlessness","unthinking","prejudices","childhood","idiosyncrasies","individual","character","opinion","newspapers"],"answer":"Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. 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You understand."},{"words":["forbidden","kill","murderers","punished","unless","kill","large","numbers","sound","trumpets"],"answer":"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."},{"words":["revolution","tea","party"],"answer":"The revolution is not a tea party."},{"words":["ask","country","ask","country","did"],"answer":"Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you."},{"words":["finest","qualities","nature","like","bloom","fruits","preserved","delicate","handling","treat","tenderly"],"answer":"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."},{"words":["embarrassing","try","overthrow","government","wind","best","sellers","list"],"answer":"Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List."},{"words":["forever","curiously","testing","new","opinions","courting","new","impressions"],"answer":"What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions."},{"words":["i","afriad","army","100","sheep","lead","lion","army","100","lions","lead","sheep"],"answer":"I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep."},{"words":["aim","argument","progress","progress","ultimately","means","little","victory"],"answer":"An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory."},{"words":["dreams","interludes","fancy","makesbr","forgotten","things","long","cast","behindbr","rush","forward","brain","come","mind"],"answer":"Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes...<br> Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind<br> Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind."},{"words":["existence","intolerable","dream"],"answer":"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."},{"words":["dreams","naked","acting","real","characters","clearly","awake"],"answer":"In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake."},{"words":["sleep","occasion","man","silence","conscience","forget","knew","dream"],"answer":"Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream."},{"words":["dreams","nature","harbors","intention","deceive","expresses","best"],"answer":"To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can."},{"words":["look","leap"],"answer":"Look before you leap."},{"words":["education","ability","listen","losing","temper","selfconfidence"],"answer":"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."},{"words":["dictionaries","like","watches","worst","better","best","expected","quite","true"],"answer":"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."},{"words":["virtue","flourish","equals"],"answer":"Virtue can only flourish among equals."},{"words":["kiss","approvebr","sure","sweet","cement","glue","lime","love"],"answer":"What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:<br> The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love."},{"words":["i","believe","true","dreams","true","interpreters","inclinations","art","required","sort","understand"],"answer":"I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them."},{"words":["men","conceived","twofold","use","sleep","refreshing","body","life","preparing","soul"],"answer":"Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next."},{"words":["dreams","levels","afraid","strive"],"answer":"Dreams take us to levels we would otherwise be afraid to strive for."},{"words":["doors","perception","cleansed","thing","appear","man","infinite"],"answer":"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."},{"words":["angels","brighter","dreamsbr","soul","man","doth","sleepbr","strange","thoughts","transcend","wonted","themesbr","glory","peep"],"answer":"And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams<br> Call to the soul when man doth sleep,<br> So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,<br> And into glory peep."},{"words":["i","belong","ancient","idle","wild","useless","tribe","i","storyteller"],"answer":"I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller."},{"words":["contributes","tranquilize","mind","steady","purpose","point","soul","fix","intellectual","eye"],"answer":"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."},{"words":["dreams","development","breath","br","tears","tortures","touch","joybr","leave","weight","waking","thoughtsbr","weight","waking","toilsbr","divide"],"answer":"And dreams in their development have breath, <br> And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;<br> They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,<br> They take a weight from off our waking toils,<br> They do divide our being."},{"words":["poetry","lava","imagination","eruption","prevents","earthquake"],"answer":"[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."},{"words":["words","things","small","drop","inkbr","falling","like","dew","thought","producesbr","makes","thousands","millions","think"],"answer":"But words are things; and a small drop of ink,<br> Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces<br> That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."},{"words":["man","greatly","good","magine","intensely","comprehensively","place","pains","pleasures","species"],"answer":"A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."},{"words":["laugh","cheap","medicine"],"answer":"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."},{"words":["unquiet","heart","brainbr","use","measured","language","lies"],"answer":"...For the unquiet heart and brain,<br> A use in measured language lies."},{"words":["candle","burns","endsbr","nightbr","ah","foes","oh","friendsbr","gives","lovely","light"],"answer":"My candle burns at both ends;<br> It will not last the night;<br> But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends,<br> It gives a lovely light."},{"words":["i","bid","look","lives","men","mirror","example"],"answer":"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself."},{"words":["work","knows","workmen"],"answer":"By the work one knows the workmen."},{"words":["person","belief","equal","force","99","interests"],"answer":"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests."},{"words":["learn","precepts","example","dangerous","pursuit","knowledge","happier","man","believes","native","town","world","aspires","greater","nature","allow"],"answer":"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."},{"words":["notice","going","slower","idiot","going","faster","maniac"],"answer":"Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?"},{"words":["iq","life","expectancy","average","american","recently","passed","going","opposite","directions"],"answer":"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions."},{"words":["human","mind","capable","grasping","universe","like","little","child","entering","huge","library","walls","covered","ceilings","books","different","tongues","child","knows","written","books","does","know","does","understand","languages","written","child","notes","definite","plan","arrangement","books","","mysterious","order","does","comprehend","dimly","suspects"],"answer":"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."},{"words":["nature","great","simplicity","great","beauty"],"answer":"Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty."},{"words":["men","contrary","character","turn","inwards","examine"],"answer":"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."},{"words":["love","person","face","god"],"answer":"To love another person is to see the face of God."},{"words":["acts","injustice","donebr","setting","rising","sunbr","history","lie","like","bones"],"answer":"Acts of injustice done<br> Between the setting and the rising sun<br> In history lie like bones, each one."},{"words":["tasted","flight","forever","walk","earth","eyes","turned","skyward","long","return"],"answer":"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."},{"words":["obtain","cheap","esteem","lightly","dearness","gives","value"],"answer":"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value."},{"words":["sun","illuminates","eye","man","shines","eyes","heart","child"],"answer":"The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child."},{"words":["petty","fears","petty","pleasures","shadow","reality"],"answer":"Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality."},{"words":["power","love","overcomes","love","power","world","know","peace"],"answer":"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."},{"words":["use","blame","looking","glass","face","awry"],"answer":"It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry."},{"words":["eyes","seeing","beauty","excuse"],"answer":"If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being."},{"words":["reason","i","dont","play","ballads","i","love","play"],"answer":"The reason I dont play ballads? Because I love to play them."},{"words":["lip","service","mysterious","deity","permits","bestiality","wednesday","absolution","sunday","cash"],"answer":"When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out."},{"words":["cultural","sanction","religious","beliefs","rituals","fall","domain","mental","disturbance"],"answer":"Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance."},{"words":["man","believes","bible","means","says","convinced","says","means"],"answer":"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."},{"words":["i","contend","atheists","i","just","believe","fewer","god","understand","dismiss","possible","gods","understand","i","dismiss"],"answer":"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."},{"words":["acute","judges","witches","witches","convinced","guilt","witchery","guilt","nonexistent","guilt"],"answer":"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."},{"words":["i","believe","god","wants","praised","time"],"answer":"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."},{"words":["credibility","good","conscience","evidence","truth","come","senses"],"answer":"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."},{"words":["i","prove","god","statistically"],"answer":"I could prove God statistically."},{"words":["best","mirror","old","friend"],"answer":"The best mirror is an old friend."},{"words":["hope","reality","worst","evils","prolongs","torments","man"],"answer":"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."},{"words":["christian","resolution","world","ugly","bad","world","ugly","bad"],"answer":"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."},{"words":["casual","stroll","lunatic","asylum","shows","faith","does","prove"],"answer":"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."},{"words":["duty","worship","sun","pretty","sure","crime","examine","laws","heat"],"answer":"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."},{"words":["beauty","religious","mania","power","explain","god","satan","accepted","cause","happens","mortal","world","left","chance","logic","happily","tossed","window"],"answer":"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window."},{"words":["simple","religion","need","temples","need","complicated","philosophy","brain","heart","temple","philosophy","kindness"],"answer":"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."},{"words":["man","follow","today","teachings","old","testament","criminal","follow","strictly","teachings","new","insane"],"answer":"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. 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And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."},{"words":["addition","numerous","acquaintances","i","intimate","confidant","depression","faithful","mistress","i","known","","wonder","i","return","love"],"answer":"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."},{"words":["creativity","drug","i","live"],"answer":"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without."},{"words":["reason","people","agreeable","conversation","thinking","intends","say","saying","listen","eager","speak"],"answer":"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak."},{"words":["underestimate","power","touch","smile","kind","word","listening","ear","honest","compliment","smallest","act","caring","potential","turn","life"],"answer":"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."},{"words":["idle","short","road","death","diligent","way","life","foolish","people","idle","wise","people","diligent"],"answer":"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."},{"words":["death","extinguishing","light","putting","lamp","dawn","come"],"answer":"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come."},{"words":["admit","fears","lead","fulfilling","life","happiness","knowing","hide","need"],"answer":"Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to."},{"words":["trying","step","failure"],"answer":"Trying is the first step towards failure."},{"words":["country","shall","new","birth","freedom","government","people","people","people","shall","perish","earth"],"answer":"...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth."},{"words":["becuase","i","stop","deathbr","kindly","stopped","mebr","carriage","held","just","ourselvesbr","immortality"],"answer":"Becuase I could not stop for Death<br> He kindly stopped for me<br> The carriage held but just ourselves<br> And Immortality"},{"words":["heroes","ordinary","men"],"answer":"Heroes are often the most ordinary of men."},{"words":["i","hold","hand","finger","standing","erect","long","held","tasks","hand","preform","accomplished","i","lift","i","grasp","i","hold","i","make","intelligible","sign","fingers","organize","work","learn","lesson"],"answer":"I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson."},{"words":["firstrate","version","instead","secondrate","version"],"answer":"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else."},{"words":["talent","does","genius","does"],"answer":"Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must."},{"words":["i","astonished","effect","successful","landing","france","nations","world","like","match","lighting","bonfire"],"answer":"I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire."},{"words":["adversity","does","teach","real","friends"],"answer":"Adversity does teach who your real friends are."},{"words":["man","star","soul","render","honest","perfect","man","commands","light","influence","fate"],"answer":"Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate."},{"words":["careful","let","define","good"],"answer":"You have to be careful who you let define your good."},{"words":["trade","wins"],"answer":"When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all."},{"words":["reputation","people","know","honor","know"],"answer":"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."},{"words":["guard","honor","let","reputation","fall","outlive","bastards"],"answer":"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards."},{"words":["tactical","retreat","bad","response","surprise","assault","know","survive","choose","ground","counterattack"],"answer":"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack."},{"words":["real","distinction","adapt","purposes","reality","seek","mold","reality","light","purposes"],"answer":"The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes."},{"words":["live","","work","right"],"answer":"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough."},{"words":["far","away","minute","ago"],"answer":"Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."},{"words":["accept","people","offer","drink","milkshakes","love"],"answer":"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."},{"words":["look","deeply","understand","perfect","balance","fear","cycle","birth","life","death","stand","present","moment","timeless"],"answer":"As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless."},{"words":["work","required","thing","sacred","idleness"],"answer":"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."},{"words":["realize","deeply","present","moment"],"answer":"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have."},{"words":["life","consciousness"],"answer":"Life is consciousness."},{"words":["solve","problem","need","worrying","solve","use","worrying"],"answer":"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?"},{"words":["speaks","acts","cruel","mind","misery","follows","cart","follows","horse","speaks","acts","pure","mind","happiness","follows","shadow","follows","source"],"answer":"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."},{"words":["want","life","rewarding","change","way","think"],"answer":"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think."},{"words":["trust","gone"],"answer":"Trust one who has gone through it."},{"words":["trust","think","act","speak","imitation","suicide"],"answer":"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide."},{"words":["impossible","life","trust","imprisoned","worst","cell","oneself"],"answer":"It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."},{"words":["built","castles","air","work","need","lost","foundations"],"answer":"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."},{"words":["following","deepest","instinct","lead","rich","life","let","fear","consequence","prevent","following","deepest","instinct","life","safe","expedient"],"answer":"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."},{"words":["greatest","thing","world","know","belong","oneself"],"answer":"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."},{"words":["i","looked","outside","i","make","world","instead","looking"],"answer":"I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there."},{"words":["better","suffer","wrong","happier","cheated","trust"],"answer":"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."},{"words":["insist","imitate","great","man","unique"],"answer":"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."},{"words":["trust","thyself","shall","betray","thee"],"answer":"Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee."},{"words":["lives","teach"],"answer":"Our lives teach us who we are."},{"words":["just","blessing","just","live","holy"],"answer":"Just to be is a blessing. 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For all that will be, yes."},{"words":["abundance","large","attitude"],"answer":"Abundance is, in large part, an attitude."},{"words":["necessarily","hero","life","story"],"answer":"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."},{"words":["gratitude","direct","line","god","angels","time","matter","crazy","troubled","feel","thankful",""],"answer":"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. "},{"words":["sublime","experiences","wake","feeling","healthy","sick"],"answer":"One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick."},{"words":["i","received","lord","make","truly","thankful","truly","i","received"],"answer":"For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."},{"words":["i","come","believe","giving","receiving","really","giving","receiving","","giving","taking"],"answer":"I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. 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Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."},{"words":["certain","themes","allabsorbing","entirely","horrible","purposes","legitimate","fiction"],"answer":"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."},{"words":["true","greatness","comes","things","good","true","greatness","comes","really","tested","taken","knocks","faced","disappointments","sadness","comes","deepest","valley","know","magnificent","atop","highest","mountain"],"answer":"True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. 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They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."},{"words":["i","decided","wisdom","enabled","poets","write","poetry","kind","instinct","inspiration","seers","prophets","deliver","sublime","messages","knowing","mean"],"answer":"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."},{"words":["time","depart","die","living","takes","better","course","concealed","god"],"answer":"But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God."},{"words":["moral","feeling","supposed","special","sense","appeal","superficial","think","believe","feeling","help","concerns","general","laws","feelings","naturally","differ","infinitely","degree","furnish","uniform","standard","good","evil","right","form","judgments","feelings"],"answer":"...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings..."},{"words":["act","maxim","action","general","natural","law"],"answer":"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law"},{"words":["i","open","receive","breath","i","breathe"],"answer":"I am open to receive with every breath I breathe."},{"words":["inscrutable","wisdom","exist","worthy","veneration","respect","denies","respect","granted"],"answer":"The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted."},{"words":["universal","lasting","establishment","peace","constitutes","merely","final","purpose","end","science","right","viewed","limits","reason"],"answer":"The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason."},{"words":["beneficent","duty","minds","sympathetically","constituted","motive","vanity","selfinterest","pleasure","spreading","joy","delight","satisfaction","far","work","i","maintain","case","action","kind","proper","amiable","true","moral","worth","level","inclinations","","maxim","lacks","moral","import","actions","duty","inclination"],"answer":"To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination."},{"words":["human","reason","peculiar","fate","species","knowledge","burdened","questions","prescribed","nature","reason","able","ignore","transcending","powers","able","answer"],"answer":"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer."},{"words":["criticism","sever","root","materialism","fatalism","atheism","freethinking","fanaticism","superstition","injurious","universally","idealism","skepticism","dangerous","chiefly","schools","hardly","allow","handed","public"],"answer":"Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public."},{"words":["human","reason","nature","architectonic"],"answer":"\"Human reason is by nature architectonic.\""},{"words":["sees","need","waits","asked","set","cruel","refusal"],"answer":"For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal."},{"words":["man","religion","reminding","filth","result","arrogance","piece","suit","max","lucado"],"answer":"Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. 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Let no such man be trusted."},{"words":["surely","gladness","need","thought","day","brighter","dawn","","lovelier","sights","meet","eyes","waving","trees","rippling","waters","","angelhands","shall","undraw","curtains","sweeter","tones","loving","mother","breathed","shall","wake","new","glorious","day","","sadness","sin","darkened","life","little","earth","shall","forgotten","like","dreams","night","past"],"answer":"Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!"},{"words":["i","believe","god","means","divide","life","halves","","wear","grave","face","sunday","think","outofplace","mention","weekday","think","cares","kneeling","figures","hear","tones","prayer","","does","love","lambs","leaping","sunlight","hear","merry","voices","children","roll","amoung","hay","surely","innocent","laughter","sweet","ears","grandest","anthem","rolled","dim","religious","light","solemn","cathedral"],"answer":"For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the \"dim religious light\" of some solemn cathedral?"},{"words":["life","easy","perseverance","confidence","believe","gifted","thing","cost","attained"],"answer":"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. 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This makes it hard to plan the day."},{"words":["laughter","inner","jogging"],"answer":"Laughter is inner jogging."},{"words":["i","know","half","money","i","spend","advertising","wasted","i","knew","half"],"answer":"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half."},{"words":["patriotism","short","outburst","emotion","tranquil","steady","dedication","lifetime"],"answer":"Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."},{"words":["i","poor","dreams","i","spread","dreams","feet","tread","softly","tread","dreams"],"answer":"But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. 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To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself."},{"words":["complain","roses","thorns","rejoice","thorns","roses"],"answer":"You can complain because roses have have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."},{"words":["successful","lie","doubly","lie","error","corrected","heavier","burden","truth"],"answer":"A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth."},{"words":["look","dream","future","past","satisfy","daydreams","duty","reward","destinyare"],"answer":"Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. 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We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."},{"words":["regret","things","did","tempered","time","regret","things","did","inconsolable"],"answer":"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."},{"words":["style","knowing","want","say","giving","damn"],"answer":"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn."},{"words":["politeness","consideration","like","investing","pennies","getting","dollars"],"answer":"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back."},{"words":["day","brings","chance","draw","breath","kick","shoes","dance"],"answer":"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."},{"words":["lucky","rest","feeling","guilty","stop","doing","concentrate"],"answer":"If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being."},{"words":["little","thing","make","happy","feel","earned"],"answer":"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it."},{"words":["laughter","gives","distance","allows","step","event","deal"],"answer":"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."},{"words":["instance","heartbreak","teach","powerful","lessons","creating","kind","love","really","want"],"answer":"Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want."},{"words":["power","bring","solitude","","push","","belonged","person"],"answer":"The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine."},{"words":["pleasure","love","loving"],"answer":"The pleasure of love is in loving."},{"words":["grand","thing","loved","grander","thing","love"],"answer":"What a grand thing, to be loved! 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Use every moment to fill yourself up."},{"words":["live","sunshine","swim","sea","drink","wild","air"],"answer":"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air"},{"words":["greater","man","greater","courtesy"],"answer":"The greater man the greater courtesy."},{"words":["fall","prey","false","belief","mastery","domination","synonymous","manliness"],"answer":"Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness."},{"words":["beautiful","maleness","finds","right","expression"],"answer":"How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression."},{"words":["tenderness","man","uninteresting"],"answer":"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."},{"words":["good","men","affectionate","men"],"answer":"Good men must be affectionate men."},{"words":["actually","body","muscles","allow","power"],"answer":"All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power."},{"words":["make","promises","just","passion","second","time","regenerative","power","human","heart"],"answer":"You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. 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But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."},{"words":["acquire","knowledge","study","acquire","wisdom","observe"],"answer":"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."},{"words":["indifference","neglect","damage","outright","dislike"],"answer":"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."},{"words":["life","great","big","canvas","throw","paint"],"answer":"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."},{"words":["decide","stay","shallow","end","pool","ocean"],"answer":"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean."},{"words":["people","make","headlines","make","history"],"answer":"Some people make headlines while others make history."},{"words":["kind","meet","fighting","hard","battle"],"answer":"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."},{"words":["i","waste","life","friction","turned","momentum"],"answer":"I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."},{"words":["grass","fact","greener","fence","fences","grass","greenest","watered","crossing","fences","carry","water","tend","grass"],"answer":"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. 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You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders."},{"words":["easy","unwilling"],"answer":"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."},{"words":["thing","really","hard","really","amazing","giving","perfect","beginning","work"],"answer":"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."},{"words":["people","accept","ideas","readily","tell","benjamin","franklin","said"],"answer":"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first."},{"words":["direct","wind","adjust","sails"],"answer":"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."},{"words":["worry","misuse","imagination"],"answer":"Worry is a misuse of imagination."},{"words":["personality","open","doors","character","open"],"answer":"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open."},{"words":["happiness","things","believe","different","things"],"answer":"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."},{"words":["young","people","biological","destiny","hopeful"],"answer":"Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful."},{"words":["truth","noble","superior","somebody","real","nobility","superior","self"],"answer":"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. 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It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?"},{"words":["send","letter","good","way","moving","heart"],"answer":"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart."},{"words":["follow","grain","wood"],"answer":"Follow the grain in your own wood."},{"words":["deprive","hope"],"answer":"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have."},{"words":["make"],"answer":"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."},{"words":["fear","illusion","share","tends","disappear"],"answer":"For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear."},{"words":["knows","day","going","bring","important","thing","open","ready"],"answer":"One never knows what each day is going to bring. 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That is all ye know, and all ye need to know."},{"words":["race","finds","proper","guide","attain","virtue"],"answer":"There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue."},{"words":["death","proud","called","theebrmighty","dreadfull","thou","art","sobrfor","thou","thinkst","thou","dost","overthrowbr","die","poor","death","canst","thou","kill"],"answer":"Death be not proud, though some have called thee<br>Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,<br>For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow,<br> die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."},{"words":["truly","great","book","read","youth","maturity","old","age","fine","building","seen","morning","light","noon","moonlight"],"answer":"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."},{"words":["happiness","byproduct","probably","matter","temperament","i","know","glandular","demanded","life","happy","better","stop","worrying","treasures","pluck","brand","unhappiness"],"answer":"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."},{"words":["holding","anger","resentment","hurt","gives","tense","muscles","headache","sore","jaw","clenching","teeth","forgiveness","gives","laughter","lightness","life"],"answer":"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. 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Now even my cat has its own page."},{"words":["important","work","moving","world","forward","does","wait","perfect","men"],"answer":"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."},{"words":["paradoxical","profoundly","true","important","principle","life","likely","way","reach","goal","aiming","goal","ambitious","goal"],"answer":"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."},{"words":["ecstasy","marks","summit","life","life","rise","paradox","living","ecstasy","comes","alive","comes","complete","forgetfulness","alive"],"answer":"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."},{"words":["better","obscure","idea","happiness","misery","kindness","greed","good","works","bad","deeds","capacities","merely","select"],"answer":"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."},{"words":["calendars","careful","people","passionate","ones"],"answer":"Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones."},{"words":["patriots","talk","dying","country","killing","country"],"answer":"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."},{"words":["sweetness","friendship","let","laughter","sharing","pleasures","dew","little","things","heart","finds","morning","refreshed"],"answer":"And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."},{"words":["imports","come","countries"],"answer":"Most of our imports come from other countries."},{"words":["religion","opiate","masses"],"answer":"Religion is the opiate of the masses."},{"words":["fact","simple","statement","believes","innocent","unless","guilty","hypothesis","novel","suggestion","wants","believe","guilty","effective"],"answer":"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."},{"words":["wonderful","great","state","chicago"],"answer":"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."},{"words":["diplomacy","art","knowing","say"],"answer":"Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say."},{"words":["i","like","word","bomb","bomb","device","exploding"],"answer":"I do not like this word \"bomb.\" It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding."},{"words":["behold","good","pleasant","brethren","dwell","unity"],"answer":"Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."},{"words":["i","know","dark","stars"],"answer":"But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."},{"words":["i","star","star","ball","gas"],"answer":"I am not a star. A star is nothing more than a ball of gas."},{"words":["good","making","excuses","seldom","good"],"answer":"He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else."},{"words":["philosophers","perceived","world","various","ways","point","change"],"answer":"The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it."},{"words":["deny","freedom","deserve","just","god","long","retain"],"answer":"Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."},{"words":["history","looks","like","history","living"],"answer":"History never looks like history when you are living through it."},{"words":["i","want","believe","intelligent","design","i","suspicious","confirm","desire","believe"],"answer":"I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe."},{"words":["refused","bored","chiefly","wasn"],"answer":"[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn"},{"words":["conscious","things","did","things","wanted"],"answer":"She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do."},{"words":["best","eat","words"],"answer":"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."},{"words":["choicesthat","truly","far","abilities"],"answer":"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."},{"words":["bad","spellers","world","untie"],"answer":"Bad spellers of the world, untie!"},{"words":["gravity","earth","sucks"],"answer":"There is no gravity. The earth sucks."},{"words":["avoid","having","ego","close","position","position","falls","ego","goes"],"answer":"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."},{"words":["science","comits","suicide","adopts","creed"],"answer":"Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed."},{"words":["men","fight","long","hard","bit","colored","ribbon"],"answer":"Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."},{"words":["history","despite","wrenching","pain","unlived","faced","courage","need","lived"],"answer":"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."},{"words":["beware","sentimental","alliances","consciousness","good","deeds","compensation","noble","sacrifices"],"answer":"Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices."},{"words":["struggle","progress","profess","favor","freedom","renounce","controversy","people","want","crops","ploughing","ground"],"answer":"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground."},{"words":["i","enjoy","highly","overpaid","actor"],"answer":"I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor."},{"words":["right","light","right","time","extraordinary"],"answer":"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."},{"words":["i","think","highest","lowest","points","important","ones","justin","i","want","freedom","try"],"answer":"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything."},{"words":["i","think","intelligent","sensitive","human","soul","clown","forces","blow","important","moments"],"answer":"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."},{"words":["expose","deepest","fear","fear","power","fear","freedom","shrinks","vanishes","free"],"answer":"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."},{"words":["board","set","pieces","moving","come","lastbr","great","battle","time"],"answer":"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...<br> The great battle of our time."},{"words":["love","essence","life"],"answer":"Love is the very essence of life."},{"words":["laid","foundations","able","great","ability","lay","laid","trouble","architect","danger","building"],"answer":"He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building."},{"words":["world","wide","i","waste","life","friction","turned","momentum"],"answer":"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."},{"words":["born","cried","world","rejoiced","live","life","manner","die","world","cries","rejoice"],"answer":"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."},{"words":["poet","unhappy","heart","torn","secret","sufferings","lips","strangely","formed","sighs","cries","escape","sound","like","beautiful","music","people","crowd","poet","say","sing","soon","say","new","sufferings","torment","soul"],"answer":"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: \"Sing for us soon again;\" that is as much as to say. \"May new sufferings torment your soul.\""},{"words":["people","surrender","freedom","willingly","forced","surrender","imprisonment","begins","birth","society","parents","refuse","allow","freedom","born","subtle","ways","punish","person","daring","feel","destroyed","true","feeling","nature","imitate"],"answer":"Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see."},{"words":["success","life","measured","easily","number","days","person","truly","happy"],"answer":"Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy."},{"words":["hair","divides","false","true"],"answer":"A hair divides what is false and true."},{"words":["face","sun","shadows"],"answer":"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."},{"words":["ounce","prevention","worth","pound","cure"],"answer":"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."},{"words":["poor","know","luxury","giving"],"answer":"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"},{"words":["accomplishment","aim","wantonness","atrocity","partake","insane","direct","cool","judgement","sagacious","sound","men","madmen","dangerous","sort"],"answer":"Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort."},{"words":["just","living","said","butterfly","sunshine","freedom","little","flower"],"answer":"Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."},{"words":["hope","thing","feathers","perches","soul","sings","tune","words","stops"],"answer":"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."},{"words":["i","afraid","tomorrow","i","seen","yesterday","i","love","today"],"answer":"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."},{"words":["sweet","wholesome","abode","unless","admit","air","sunshine","freely","rooms","strong","body","bright","happy","serene","countenance","result","free","admittance","mind","thoughts","joy","goodwill","serenity"],"answer":"As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity."},{"words":["convincing","dreams","awake","woke","state","complete","exhaustion","straight","sleep"],"answer":"so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again."},{"words":["i","spent","time","worrying","thigs","happened"],"answer":"I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened."},{"words":["penny","saved","penny","earned"],"answer":"A penny saved is a penny earned."},{"words":["people","consider","things","government","does","social","progress","consider","things","government","does","socialism"],"answer":"Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism."},{"words":["problem","world","drinks"],"answer":"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."},{"words":["people","like","quotations","love","meaningless","generalizations"],"answer":"People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations."},{"words":["nescis","mi","fili","quantilla","prudentia","regitur","orbisbr","dost","thou","know","son","little","wisdom","world","governed"],"answer":"An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis?<br> Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?"},{"words":["force","fraud","war","cardinal","virtues"],"answer":"Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues."},{"words":["play","actually","demand","play","beautifully","expressively"],"answer":"We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can."},{"words":["men","storm","imaginary","alps","lives","die","foothills","cursing","difficulties","exist"],"answer":"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."},{"words":["stand","i","earth"],"answer":"Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth."},{"words":["i","learned","weak","cruel","gentleness","expected","strong"],"answer":"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."},{"words":["i","angels","vanity","speak","wise"],"answer":"I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise."},{"words":["better","reign","hell","serve","heaven"],"answer":"Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."},{"words":["memory","says","i","did","pride","replies","i","eventually","memory","yields"],"answer":"Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields."},{"words":["gain","strength","courage","confidence","experience","really","stop","look","fear","face","thing","think"],"answer":"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."},{"words":["aim","life","live","live","means","aware","joyously","drunkenly","serenely","divinely","aware"],"answer":"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."},{"words":["raise","voice","reinforce","argument"],"answer":"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument."},{"words":["deadlines","things","pass","way","finishing"],"answer":"Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing."},{"words":["thought","power","wisdom"],"answer":"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."},{"words":["truth","universally","acknowledged","single","man","possession","good","fortune","want","wife","little","known","feelings","views","man","entering","neighbourhood","truth","fixed","minds","ths","surrounding","families","considered","rightful","property","daughters"],"answer":"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."},{"words":["awesome","thought","solitary","mortal","standing","open","window","summoning","gloom","outside","spirits","nether","world"],"answer":"There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world."},{"words":["family","family","gender","values","like","commitment","trust","love"],"answer":"A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love."},{"words":["frantic","orthodoxy","rooted","faith","doubt","unsure","doubly","sure"],"answer":"Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure."},{"words":["tree","cut","downbr","river","poisonedbr","fish","caughtbr","money","eaten"],"answer":"Only when the last tree has been cut down<br> Only when the last river has been poisoned<br> Only when the last fish has been caught<br> Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."},{"words":["i","said","actors","cattle","i","said","actors","treated","like","cattle"],"answer":"I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle."},{"words":["know","pains","power","know","pleasures","seeking"],"answer":"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."},{"words":["men","born","ignorant","stupid","stupid","education"],"answer":"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."},{"words":["let","weigh","gain","loss","wagering","god","consider","alternatives","win","win","lose","lose","hesitate","wager"],"answer":"Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is."},{"words":["ought","day","hear","little","song","read","good","poem","fine","picture","possible","speak","reasonable","words"],"answer":"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."},{"words":["forgiveness","fragrance","violet","sheds","heel","crushed"],"answer":"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."},{"words":["develop","ear","sounds","musical","like","developing","ego","begin","refuse","sounds","musical","way","cut","good","deal","experience"],"answer":"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience."},{"words":["way","i","want","rainbow","gotta","rain"],"answer":"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."},{"words":["laugh","win","respect","intelligent","people","affection","children","earn","appreciation","honest","critics","endure","betrayal","false","friends","appreciate","beauty","best","leave","world","little","better","healthy","child","garden","patch","redeemed","social","condition","know","life","breathed","easier","lived","meaning","success"],"answer":"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."},{"words":["burned","books","end","burning","human","beingsbr","dort","wo","man","b"],"answer":"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.<br> (Dort, wo man B"},{"words":["sole","advantage","power","good"],"answer":"The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good."},{"words":["higher","man","gets","smaller","fly"],"answer":"The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly."},{"words":["disgust","dirt","great","prevents","cleaning","","justifying"],"answer":"Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from \"justifying\" ourselves."},{"words":["thing","justicein","court"],"answer":"There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court."},{"words":["beauty","religious","mania","power","explain","god","satan","accepted","cause","happens","mortal","world","left","chance","logic","happily","tossed","window"],"answer":"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. 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They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will."},{"words":["people","work","world","certainly","work"],"answer":"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."},{"words":["i","feel","like","fugitive","law","averages"],"answer":"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."},{"words":["limits","tyrants","prescribed","endurance","oppose"],"answer":"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."},{"words":["struggle","progress"],"answer":"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."},{"words":["i","prefer","true","hazard","incurring","ridicule","false","incur","abhorrence"],"answer":"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."},{"words":["certain","danger","essential","quality","life"],"answer":"A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life."},{"words":["i","consider","insult","compliment","called","agnostic","i","pretend","know","ignorant","men","sure",""],"answer":"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. 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I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain."},{"words":["old","woman","feel"],"answer":"You are only as old as the woman you feel."},{"words":["commends","contentbr","commends","thing","i"],"answer":"He that commends me to mine own content<br> Commends me to the thing I cannot get."},{"words":["childhood","forebodings","soothed","memories","outlived","sorrow"],"answer":"Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."},{"words":["power","takes","step","","face","power"],"answer":"Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power."},{"words":["pride","helps","generous","makes","vanity","makes","witty"],"answer":"But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."},{"words":["man","monster","mathematician","mad","philosopher","slave","woman"],"answer":"Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other."},{"words":["nailed","i","pry","loose","nailed"],"answer":"What is not nailed down is mine. 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There will be no dawn."},{"words":["god","wanted","created"],"answer":"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."},{"words":["wretched","business","generous","doing","best","flower"],"answer":"In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower."},{"words":["cowardice","asks","question","","safebr","vanity","asks","question","","popularbr","expediency","asks","question","","politicalbr","conscience","asks","question","","rightbr","br","comes","time","position","safe","popular","political","right"],"answer":"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?<br> Vanity asks the question - is it popular?<br> Expediency asks the question - is it political?<br> But conscience asks the question - is it right?<br> <br> There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right."},{"words":["choose","way","peace","","short","term","winners","losers","war","dread","justify","suffering","pain","loss","life","weapons","cause"],"answer":"Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause."},{"words":["time","laid","healing","hand","wound","look","pain","fainted","bitterness","despair","arises","heart"],"answer":"Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart."},{"words":["parralels","railways","church","heyday","midnineteenth","century","great","deal","gothicstyle","architecture","expensive","maintain","regularly","assailed","critics","firmly","convinced","best","means","getting","man","ultimate","destination"],"answer":"[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination."},{"words":["strongest","strong","master","unless","transforms","strength","right","obedience","duty"],"answer":"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."},{"words":["living","easy","eyes","closed","misunderstanding"],"answer":"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."},{"words":["i","able","really","regret","life","i","far","absorbed","present","moment","immediate","future","think"],"answer":"I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. 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The rest I just squandered."},{"words":["gentle","really","strong"],"answer":"Only the gentle are ever really strong."},{"words":["flower","art","fully","blossomed","save","nourished","tears","agony"],"answer":"No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony."},{"words":["i","fear","confused","power","greatness"],"answer":"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."},{"words":["valuable","function","performed","federal","government","entertainment"],"answer":"The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment."},{"words":["difference","successful","person","lack","strength","lack","knowledge","lack"],"answer":"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."},{"words":["people","world","hungry","god","appear","form","bread"],"answer":"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."},{"words":["power","defense","freedom","greater","power","behalf","tyranny","oppression"],"answer":"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression."},{"words":["common","things","life","uncommon","way","command","attention","world"],"answer":"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."},{"words":["advice","dangerous","gift","wise","wise"],"answer":"Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise."},{"words":["best","effect","fine","persons","felt","left","presence"],"answer":"The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence."},{"words":["best","weapons","infamies","life","courage","wilfulness","patience","courage","strenthens","wilfulness","fun","patience","provides","tranquility"],"answer":"The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. 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You are a toad.\" And after I had thought on it, I said \"I will then, be a toad.\""},{"words":["silence","good","disposition","things","better"],"answer":"Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these."},{"words":["affectionate","little","ones","does","respect","old","does","order","lawful","prohibits","unlawful"],"answer":"He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful."},{"words":["know","better","charity","fasting","prayer","keeping","peace","good","relations","people","quarrels","bad","feelings","destroy","mankind"],"answer":"Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? 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To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured."},{"words":["person","given","money","beauty","look","given"],"answer":"When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less."},{"words":["overcome","evil","good","good","resist","evil","evil","evil"],"answer":"To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil."},{"words":["shall","compulsion","religion"],"answer":"There shall be no compulsion in religion."},{"words":["best","houses","house","orphan","gets","love","kindness"],"answer":"The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness."},{"words":["gratitude","exquisite","form","courtesy"],"answer":"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."},{"words":["rings","involved","marriage","engagement","ring","wedding","ring","suffering"],"answer":"There are three rings involved with marriage. 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I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself."},{"words":["pursuit","great","greatly","pursued"],"answer":"Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued."},{"words":["gift","season","double","favor","needy"],"answer":"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy."},{"words":["contraceptives","used","conceivable","occasion"],"answer":"Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion."},{"words":["difference","good","man","bad","man","choice","cause"],"answer":"The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause."},{"words":["life","law","logic","experience"],"answer":"The life of the law has not been logic but experience."},{"words":["dreams","stronger","death","men","women","die","holding","dreams"],"answer":"There are dreams stronger than death. 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Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."},{"words":["oft","course","deeds","wheels","world","small","hands","becuase","eyes","great"],"answer":"Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."},{"words":["best","beautiful","things","world","seen","touched","felt","heart"],"answer":"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart."},{"words":["best","way","good","idea","lots","ideas"],"answer":"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."},{"words":["critics","friends","tell","faults"],"answer":"Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults."},{"words":["death","tugs","ear","says","live","i","coming"],"answer":"Death tugs at my ear and says: \"Live, I am coming.\""},{"words":["does","profit","man","gains","world","loses","soul"],"answer":"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?"},{"words":["consciousness","self","greatest","hindrance","proper","execution","physical","action","fixed","teaching","i","provide","appropriate","medicine","particular","ailment"],"answer":"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. 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Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."},{"words":["little","bad","taste","like","nice","dash","paprika"],"answer":"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."},{"words":["ism","hollywood","believes","plagiarism"],"answer":"The only \"ism\" hollywood believes in is plagiarism."},{"words":["point","moon","finger","task","feel","think","understand","lesson","learned"],"answer":"When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned."},{"words":["sadder","proof","given","man","littleness","disbelief","great","men"],"answer":"No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men."},{"words":["imagination","highest","kite","fly"],"answer":"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."},{"words":["remain","art","mirror","reflections","artist","face","face","mask"],"answer":"One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask."},{"words":["outcome","research","make","questions","grow","grew"],"answer":"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."},{"words":["invention","mother","necessity"],"answer":"Invention is the mother of necessity."},{"words":["just","madness","settle","medical","treatment","body","person","taking","opinion","poll","neighbors","irrational","prescribe","body","politic","polling","opinions","people","large"],"answer":"Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large."},{"words":["man","dependent","morrow","goes","meet","morrow","cheerfully"],"answer":"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."},{"words":["gives","man","consequence","renders","fit","command","like","support","renders","independent","everybody","state","serves"],"answer":"There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves."},{"words":["better"],"answer":"It is better to have done something than to have been someone."},{"words":["happiness","warm","puppy"],"answer":"Happiness is a warm puppy."},{"words":["know","people","stupid","frustrates"],"answer":"You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me."},{"words":["life","like","wildflower","growing","freely","beauty","joy","day"],"answer":"May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day."},{"words":["keeping","body","healthy","expression","gratitude","cosmos","","trees","clouds"],"answer":"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything."},{"words":["preoccupation","future","prevents","seeing","present","prompts","rearrange","past"],"answer":"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past."},{"words":["dreams","come","true","possibility","nature","incite"],"answer":"Dreams come true. 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If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."},{"words":["fashion","changes","style","remains"],"answer":"Fashion changes, style remains."},{"words":["i","know","future","holds","i","know","holds","future"],"answer":"I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future."},{"words":["proposition","containing","word","creates","linguistical","structural","confusion","eventually","birth","fallacies"],"answer":"Any proposition containing the word \"is\" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies."},{"words":["people","feel","rain","just","wet"],"answer":"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."},{"words":["minute","perfection","worth","effort","moment","expect","perfection"],"answer":"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."},{"words":["let","rulers","load","perpetual","debt"],"answer":"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."},{"words":["government","ought","censors","","press","free"],"answer":"No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will."},{"words":["like","dream","create","future","utopia","today","flesh","blood","tomorrow"],"answer":"There is nothing like dream to create the future. 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You are able to say to yourself, \"I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."},{"words":["journey","beoming","dance","life","really","takes","place"],"answer":"The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place."},{"words":["experience","brutal","teachers","learn","god","learn"],"answer":"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."},{"words":["loved","love","lovable"],"answer":"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."},{"words":["pleasure","single","heart","single","act","better","thousand","heads","bowing","prayer"],"answer":"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."},{"words":["greatest","gift","portion","thyself"],"answer":"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself."},{"words":["kindness","words","creates","confidence","kindness","thinking","creates","profoundness","kindness","giving","creates","love"],"answer":"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. 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That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity."},{"words":["i","think","indisputable","fact","americans","americans","self","conscious","people","world","addicted","belief","nations","conspiracy","undervalue"],"answer":"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them."},{"words":["american","nature","optimistic","experimental","inventor","builder","builds","best","called","build","greatly"],"answer":"The American, by nature, is optimistic. 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I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, \"the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,\" and then to worry when America wants to sort them out."},{"words":["america","believed","differentiation","uniformity","lies","path","progress","acted","belief","advanced","human","happiness","prospered"],"answer":"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."},{"words":["american","values","luxuries","necessities","salt","bread","bread","common","vision","free","just","society","greatest","source","cohesion","home","strength","abroad","greater","bounty","material","blessings"],"answer":"Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings."},{"words":["wrong","america","cured","right","america"],"answer":"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."},{"words":["wrong","america","faith","love","freedom","intelligence","energy","citizens","cure"],"answer":"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."},{"words":["america","","great","social","economic","experiment","noble","motive","farreaching","purpose"],"answer":"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose."},{"words":["america","merely","nation","nation","nations"],"answer":"America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations."},{"words":["intellectually","i","know","america","better","country","emotionally","i","know","better","country"],"answer":"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."},{"words":["free","society","help","poor","save","rich"],"answer":"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."},{"words":["strength","united","states","gold","fort","knox","weapons","mass","destruction","sum","total","education","character","people"],"answer":"The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people."},{"words":["i","america","setting","sun","black","night","despair","ahead","i","america","crimson","light","rising","sun","fresh","burning","creative","hand","god","i","great","days","ahead","great","days","possible","men","women","vision"],"answer":"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision."},{"words":["america","young","country","old","mentality"],"answer":"America is a young country with an old mentality."},{"words":["united","states","space","anybody","makes","america"],"answer":"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is."},{"words":["new","america","morning","wake"],"answer":"There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not."},{"words":["europe","like","america","europe","product","history","america","product","philosophy"],"answer":"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy."},{"words":["just","america","stands","stands","thing","sovereignty","selfgoverning","people"],"answer":"Just what is it that America stands for? 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When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."},{"words":["let","beg","mercy","i","failed","earn","respect"],"answer":"Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect."},{"words":["i","know","closesbr","opensonly","understandsbr","voice","eyes","deeper","rosesbr","nobodynot","rain","small","hands"],"answer":"(i do not know what it is about you that closes<br> and opens;only something in me understands<br> the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)<br> nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands"},{"words":["people","count","chickens","hatched","act","wisely","chickens","run","absurdly","impossible","count","accurately"],"answer":"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."},{"words":["cold","silence","tendency","atrophy","sense","br","compassion","br","supposed","loversbr","supposed","brothersbr","i","know","pieces","fit"],"answer":"cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of <br> compassion, <br> between supposed lovers,<br> between supposed brothers.<br> And I know the pieces fit."},{"words":["budget","like","mythical","bean","bag","congress","votes","mythicals","beans","reaches","tries","pull","real","ones"],"answer":"The budget is like a mythical bean bag. 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It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."},{"words":["silence","good","disposition","things","better"],"answer":"Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these."},{"words":["persons","whisper","letting","hear","hurt"],"answer":"When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him."},{"words":["verily","man","teaching","child","manners","better","giving","bushel","grain","alms"],"answer":"Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms."},{"words":["feel","ashamed","like"],"answer":"If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like."},{"words":["far","away","sunshine","brightest","aspirations","i","reach","i","look","beauty","believe","try","follow","lead"],"answer":"Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."},{"words":["men","want","sex","men","ruled","world","sex","anytime","restaurants","sex","instead","breath","mints","way","gas","stations","sex","fillup","banks","sex","opened","checking","account"],"answer":"Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account."},{"words":["eternity","long","especially","end"],"answer":"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end."},{"words":["men","born","free","long","remained","free","form","conception","good","evil"],"answer":"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."},{"words":["i","hate","quotations","tell","know"],"answer":"I hate quotations. 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To believe none so is something worse."},{"words":["i","galley","slave","pen","ink"],"answer":"I am a galley slave to pen and ink."},{"words":["woe","reads","book"],"answer":"Woe be to him that reads but one book."},{"words":["wise","reader","quote","wisely"],"answer":"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."},{"words":["oh","book","shady","nook"],"answer":"Oh for a book and a shady nook..."},{"words":["cover","great","deal","country","books"],"answer":"You can cover a great deal of country in books."},{"words":["i","read","way"],"answer":"I read part of it all the way through."},{"words":["live","best","company","read"],"answer":"Live always in the best company when you read."},{"words":["universal","brotherhood","man","precious","possession"],"answer":"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it."},{"words":["prosperity","instrument","used","deity","worshipped"],"answer":"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."},{"words":["human","natural","desire","good","thing","needs"],"answer":"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."},{"words":["i","mind","single","instance","i","irreverent","things","sacred","people"],"answer":"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."},{"words":["laws","sand","customs","rock","laws","evaded","punishment","escaped","openly","transgressed","custom","brings","sure","punishment"],"answer":"Laws are sand, customs are rock. 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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!"},{"words":["thou","seest","eagle","thou","seest","portion","genius","lift","thy","head"],"answer":"When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!"},{"words":["talking","cause","danger","silence","means","avoiding","misfortune","talkative","parrot","shut","cage","birds","speech","fly","freely"],"answer":"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."},{"words":["i","hope","love","birds","economical","saves","going","heaven"],"answer":"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. 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Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone."},{"words":["saw","ironical","thing","running","pains","avoid","said","substance","earth","moon","clash","people","doubtless","plan","roofs","witness","collision"],"answer":"He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision."},{"words":["loving","misery","women","i","shall","forgive","god","making","woman","dearly","i","beginning","pay","honour","owning","pretty","face"],"answer":"Loving is misery for women always. 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I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is."},{"words":["hope","sees","invisible","feels","intangible","achieves","impossible"],"answer":"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."},{"words":["face","deficiencies","acknowledge","let","master","let","teach","patience","sweetness","insight"],"answer":"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. 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Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me."},{"words":["ceases","amaze","love","people","care","opinions"],"answer":"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own."},{"words":["win","million","battles","lose"],"answer":"You can win a million battles but you can only lose one."},{"words":["choice","illusion","created","power"],"answer":"Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without."},{"words":["time","time"],"answer":"If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?"},{"words":["i","started","concentrating","hard","vision","i","lost","sight"],"answer":"I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight."},{"words":["person","profound","effect","peoplewell","people","work","miracles","change","town","change","world"],"answer":"One person can have a profound effect on another. 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Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?"},{"words":["easier","critical","correct"],"answer":"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."},{"words":["men","look","bars","sees","mud","stars"],"answer":"Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars."},{"words":["truth","generally","best","vindication","slander"],"answer":"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."},{"words":["say","dreams","windows","soultake","peek","inner","workings","nuts","bolts"],"answer":"They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts."},{"words":["man","leave","earth","unfinished","business","live","day","preflight","check","ask","morning","i","prepared","liftoff"],"answer":"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. 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That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure."},{"words":["shall","mercy","shall","ask"],"answer":"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."},{"words":["learn","grow","transformed"],"answer":"We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it."},{"words":["decision","make","action","born","intention"],"answer":"Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention."},{"words":["treasure","admire","people","acknowledge"],"answer":"How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!"},{"words":["let","light","shine","shine","shine","let","light","shine"],"answer":"Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine."},{"words":["disconnecting","change","does","recapture","past","loses","future"],"answer":"Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. 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It makes you appreciate it even more."},{"words":["limit","realization","tomorrow","doubts","today"],"answer":"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."},{"words":["living","having","ups","downs","sharing","friends"],"answer":"Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends."},{"words":["mellow","sweetness","pumpkin","pie","prison","spoon","forget"],"answer":"The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget."},{"words":["i","did","anybody","hell","i","just","told","truth","thought","hell"],"answer":"I never did give anybody hell. 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Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair."},{"words":["obtain","cheap","esteem","lightly","strange","celestial","article","freedom","highly","rated"],"answer":"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated."},{"words":["arbeit","macht","frei","work","sets","free"],"answer":"Arbeit macht frei. (Work sets you free)."},{"words":["beauty","eye","beholder","necessary","time","time","stupid","misinformed","beholder","black","eye"],"answer":"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."},{"words":["crash","programs","fail","based","theory","women","pregnant","baby","month"],"answer":"Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month."},{"words":["musicthe","incorporeal","entrance","higher","world","knowledge","comprehends","mankind","mankind","comprehend"],"answer":"Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend."},{"words":["love","loves"],"answer":"We are what we love, not what loves us."},{"words":["i","know","come","kill","shoot","coward","going","kill","man"],"answer":"I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! 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I am the kind of woman I would run from."},{"words":["democracy","meant","efficient","meant","fair"],"answer":"Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair."},{"words":["men","caught","inescapable","network","mutuality"],"answer":"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."},{"words":["nonviolence","answer","crucial","political","moral","questions","time","need","mankind","overcome","oppression","violence","resorting","oppression","violence","mankind","evolve","human","conflict","method","rejects","revenge","aggression","retaliation","foundation","method","love"],"answer":"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."},{"words":["hope","secure","livable","world","lies","disciplined","nonconformists","dedicated","justice","peace","brotherhood"],"answer":"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."},{"words":["normal","getting","dressed","clothes","buy","work","driving","traffic","car","paying","","order","job","need","pay","clothes","car","house","leave","vacant","day","afford","live"],"answer":"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."},{"words":["loneliness","human","condition","going","space","best","thing","know","know","want"],"answer":"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want."},{"words":["mother","god","lips","hearts","little","children"],"answer":"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children"},{"words":["i","idea","men","born","place","accident","cast","amid","certain","surroundings","nostalgia","home","know","strangers","birthplace","leafy","lanes","known","childhood","populous","streets","played","remain","place","passage","spend","lives","aliens","kindred","remain","aloof","scenes","knows","sense","strangeness","sends","men","far","wide","search","permanent","attach","deeprooted","atavism","urges","wanderer","lands","ancestors","left","dim","beginnings","history","man","hits","place","mysteriously","feels","belongs","home","sought","settle","amid","scenes","seen","men","known","familiar","birth","finds","rest"],"answer":"I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest."},{"words":["feel","right","emotions","fully","important","hold","right","ideas","great","service","religion","development","right","emotions"],"answer":"To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions."},{"words":["reward","virtue","virtue","way","friend"],"answer":"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."},{"words":["i","look","world","fatherland","war","horror","family","fued"],"answer":"I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued."},{"words":["yes","i","cherished","demagogue","role","i","know","societies","killed","people","helped","change","societies","i","die","having","bought","light","having","exposed","meaningful","truth","help","destroy","racist","cancer","maligant","body","america","","credit","allah","mistakes"],"answer":"Yes, I have cherished my \"demagogue\" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine."},{"words":["i","believe","forgiveness","sin","redemption","ignorance"],"answer":"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."},{"words":["hobbies","cost","money","interests","free"],"answer":"Hobbies cost money but interests are free."},{"words":["free","lost"],"answer":"You are free, and that is why you are lost."},{"words":["ya","know","treat","comic","way","treated","tonight","bad"],"answer":"Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show."},{"words":["tell","secret","want","worthy","confidence","careful","secret"],"answer":"Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself."},{"words":["acquired","learning","practised","learnt","like","man","ploughs","sows","seed"],"answer":"He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed."},{"words":["better","hold","hand","coin","small","lose","half","dang"],"answer":"Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all."},{"words":["kill","man","costs","polite"],"answer":"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."},{"words":["work","righteousness","shall","peace","effect","righteousness","quietness","assurance"],"answer":"And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever."},{"words":["i","knew","i","belonged","public","world","i","talented","beautiful","i","belonged"],"answer":"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."},{"words":["i","know","things","believedthe","true","probable","logical"],"answer":"I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical."},{"words":["tend","rose","lad","thistle","grow"],"answer":"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow."},{"words":["fool","wonders","wise","man","asks"],"answer":"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."},{"words":["perfection","enemy","good"],"answer":"Perfection is the enemy of the good."},{"words":["excuse","creating","useless","admires","intensely"],"answer":"The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely."},{"words":["enslaved","rest","animal","creation","treated","distant","cousins","fur","feathers","badly","doubt","able","formulate","religion","depict","devil","human","form"],"answer":"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."},{"words":["people","overvalue","undervalue"],"answer":"Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not."},{"words":["actuated","glorious","cause","mankind","fought","i","determined","defend","post","extremity"],"answer":"Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity."},{"words":["stupidity","hydrogen","universe","longer","shelf","life"],"answer":"There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life."},{"words":["problems","manmade","solved","man","man","big","wants","problem","human","destiny","human","beings"],"answer":"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. 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What you choose to do with them is up to you."},{"words":["i","want","living","deathbr","i","grateful","godbr","giving","gift"],"answer":"I want to go on living even after my death,<br> And therefore I am grateful to God<br> For giving this gift"},{"words":["really","keeps","going","constant","belief","disappear","tomorrow"],"answer":"What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow."},{"words":["great","misunderstood"],"answer":"To be great is to be misunderstood."},{"words":["imitation","suicide"],"answer":"Imitation is suicide."},{"words":["want","endure","life","prepare","death"],"answer":"If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death."},{"words":["happines","like","mercury","hard","hold","drop","shatters","million","pieces","maybe","bravest","courage","reach"],"answer":"Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again."},{"words":["i","born","modest","spots"],"answer":"I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots."},{"words":["live","society","victimization","people","comfortable","victimized","actually","standing"],"answer":"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."},{"words":["long","men","wars"],"answer":"So long as there are men there will be wars."},{"words":["success","buys","admission","ticket","difficult","problem"],"answer":"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."},{"words":["problem","people","resisting","temptation","really","want","discourage","altogether"],"answer":"The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether."},{"words":["poetry","art","chief","fine","arts","easiest","dabble","hardest","reach","true","perfection"],"answer":"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection."},{"words":["people","don"],"answer":"People don"},{"words":["bent","suicide","won"],"answer":"Someone bent on suicide won"},{"words":["society","traditionally","tried","scapegoats","problems","i"],"answer":"Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am."},{"words":["like","wind","crying","endlessly","universe","time","carries","away","names","deeds","conquerors","commoners","alike","remains","memories","cared","came","way","brief","moment"],"answer":"Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment."},{"words":["men","want","thing","women","want","underwear","little","support","comfort","freedom"],"answer":"Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom."},{"words":["shake","hands","clenched","fist"],"answer":"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."},{"words":["man","works","surface","thingsthough","wrong","clears","way","make","errors","subservient","cause","truth"],"answer":"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth."},{"words":["guard","preaching","young","people","success","customary","form","main","aim","life","important","motive","work","school","life","pleasure","work","pleasure","result","knowledge","value","result","community"],"answer":"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."},{"words":["propose","englishman","principle","instrument","admirable","observe","effort","english","mind","directed","difficulty","defect","impossibility"],"answer":"Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it."},{"words":["just","twentythree","years","i","began","wander","twentythree","years","i","wonder","come","time","life","longer","wonderful","adventure","interesting","experience","things","personalities","waiting","just","corner","time","does","come","i","hope","release","swift"],"answer":"It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift."},{"words":["think","expands"],"answer":"What we think about, expands."},{"words":["adversity","equal","greater","opportunity"],"answer":"Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity."},{"words":["time","little","strike","reverse"],"answer":"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."},{"words":["i","expressing","opinions","confine","facts"],"answer":"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."},{"words":["sane","intelligent","human","beings","like","human","beings","carefully","cautiously","diligently","conceal","private","real","opinions","world","fictitious","ones","stead","general","consumption"],"answer":"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption."},{"words":["opinions","really","blossom","fruition","expressed"],"answer":"Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else."},{"words":["stupid","forever","ignorance","fixed"],"answer":"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed."},{"words":["good","ideas","adopted","automatically","driven","practice","courageous","patience"],"answer":"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. 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However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance."},{"words":["asks","success","prepares","failure","situation","prepared"],"answer":"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for."},{"words":["easy","love","people","far","away","easy","love","close","easier","cup","rice","relieve","hunger","relieve","loneliness","pain","unloved","home","bring","love","home","love","start"],"answer":"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start."},{"words":["mind","meaningless","stimuli","world","preoccupied","meaningless","things","easy","feel","peace","heart"],"answer":"Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart."},{"words":["optimism","faith","leads","achievement","hope","confidence"],"answer":"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. 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To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. 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He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. 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And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. 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With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end."},{"words":["life","appears","short","spent","nursing","animosity","registering","wrongs"],"answer":"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."},{"words":["i","dont","want","cross","love","forced"],"answer":"I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced."},{"words":["love","perky","elf","dancing","merry","little","jig","suddenly","turns","miniature","machine","gun"],"answer":"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."},{"words":["just","people","submit","exact","injustice","wrong","imposed","continue","resisted","words","blows","limits","tyrants","prescribed","endurance","oppress"],"answer":"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. 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It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."},{"words":["il","faut","laisser","du","temps","au","temps","br","time","time","","approximate","translation"],"answer":"il faut laisser du temps au temps <br> (you have to give time time - approximate translation)"},{"words":["corrupt","state","numerous","laws"],"answer":"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."},{"words":["practice","random","beauty","senseless","acts","love"],"answer":"Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love."},{"words":["need","ancestors"],"answer":"Do well and you will have no need for ancestors."},{"words":["history","tableau","crimes","misfortunes"],"answer":"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."},{"words":["think","let","enjoy","privilege"],"answer":"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."},{"words":["question","money","everybody","religion"],"answer":"When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."},{"words":["world","nonsensical","contradictory","save","mortals","live","grip","superstitions","past"],"answer":"Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past."},{"words":["strength","women","comes","fact","psychology","explain","men","analyzed","women"],"answer":"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. 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Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way."},{"words":["hourglass","run","hourglass","temporality","noise","secular","life","grown","silent","restless","ineffectual","activism","come","end","eternity","eternity","asks","individual","millions","millions","thing","lived","despair"],"answer":"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."},{"words":["maturity","comes","age","acceptance","responsibility","young","immaturity","lifetime"],"answer":"Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!"},{"words":["fear","keeps","pace","hope","does","moving","surprise","belong","mind","suspense","mind","state","anxiety","looking","future","mainly","projecting","thoughts","far","ahead","instead","adapting","present","foresight","greatest","blessing","humanity","given","transformed","curse"],"answer":"Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse."},{"words":["time","right","right"],"answer":"The time is always right to do what is right."},{"words":["time","high","time","yes"],"answer":"It is time, it is high time... 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Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind."},{"words":["fair","ask","willing"],"answer":"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."},{"words":["ignorance","encyclopedic"],"answer":"His ignorance is encyclopedic."},{"words":["forgiveness","fragrance","violet","sheds","heel","crushes"],"answer":"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it."},{"words":["athlete","expect","standing","threshold","accomplishment","monumental","strikes","fear","soul","stand","ready","moment","face","unknown","ready","walk","boldly","wall","uncertainty"],"answer":"As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. 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We will bury you."},{"words":["i","said","bury","i","got","trouble","course","bury","shovel","working","class","bury"],"answer":"I once said, \"We will bury you,\" and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you."},{"words":["things","involve","social","pressures","want","change","force","envelope","outwards"],"answer":"In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards."},{"words":["men","conservatives","vigorous","luxurious","conservatives","dinner"],"answer":"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. 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Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down."},{"words":["usability","like","oxygen","","notice","missing"],"answer":"Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing..."},{"words":["length","film","directly","related","endurance","human","bladder"],"answer":"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."},{"words":["want","know","god","thinks","money","just","look","people","gave"],"answer":"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."},{"words":["common","looking","people","best","world","reason","lord","makes"],"answer":"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."},{"words":["pessimist","sees","difficulty","opportunity","br","optimist","sees","opportunity","difficulty"],"answer":"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; <br> an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."},{"words":["golf","game","aim","hit","small","ball","smaller","hole","weapons","singularly","ill","designed","purpose"],"answer":"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose."},{"words":["travelers","wilderness","world","best","travels","honest","friend"],"answer":"We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend."},{"words":["rest","rust"],"answer":"Too much rest is rust."},{"words":["truth","difficult","make","mistakes","lie","surface","make","mistakes","easiest","comfortable","course","seek","insight","accords","emotions"],"answer":"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. 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The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites..."},{"words":["placed","hope","political","social","reforms","deprived","precious","possession","spiritual","life"],"answer":"We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life."},{"words":["permanent","emotion","inferior","man","fear","","fear","unknown","complex","inexplicable","wants","safety"],"answer":"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. 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But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought."},{"words":["sent","failing","world","sent","fail"],"answer":"Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail."},{"words":["pride","spiritual","cancer","eats","possibilty","love","contentment","common","sense"],"answer":"Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense."},{"words":["election","coming","universal","peace","declared","foxes","prolonging","lives","poultry"],"answer":"An election is coming. 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Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. 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Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm."},{"words":["breaks","thing","left","path","wisdom"],"answer":"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."},{"words":[],"answer":"What"},{"words":["deeds","valiant","unpraised"],"answer":"The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."},{"words":["tell","truth","unworthy"],"answer":"Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it...."},{"words":["i","love","i","used","pity","sorrow","sorrowless","fear","lack","i","love"],"answer":"I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you."},{"words":["immortal","fact","nature","indebted","priests","bibles","destroyed","unbelief"],"answer":"If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief."},{"words":["dont","married","just","dont","like","buy","house"],"answer":"Dont get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house."},{"words":["speech","conveniently","located","midway","thought","action","substitutes"],"answer":"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both."},{"words":["insinuating","i","purveyor","terminological","inexactitudes"],"answer":"Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?"},{"words":["social","history","defined","negatively","history","people","politics","left"],"answer":"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out."},{"words":["choose","decide","","choice"],"answer":"If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice!"},{"words":["don"],"answer":"Don"},{"words":["let","spark","irreplacable","spark","hopeless","swamps","quite","let","hero","soul","perish","leave","frustration","life","deserved","able","reach","world","desire","won","exists","real","possible"],"answer":"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."},{"words":["better","promote","truth","happiness","happiness","truth"],"answer":"Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?"},{"words":["mental","toughness","essential","success"],"answer":"Mental toughness is essential to success."},{"words":["strength","courage","power","exclude","kindness","understanding","consideration","strong","kind","courageous","understanding","powerful","considerate"],"answer":"Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. 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When you take a man as he can be, you make him better."},{"words":["immature","love","says","i","love","i","need","mature","love","says","i","need","i","love"],"answer":"Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you."},{"words":["end","rope","tie","knot","hang"],"answer":"When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on."},{"words":["silver","lining","touch","grey"],"answer":"Every silver lining has a touch of grey."},{"words":["virtual","reality","like","mainlining","television"],"answer":"Virtual Reality is like mainlining television."},{"words":["happiness","reflective","like","light","heaven"],"answer":"Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven."},{"words":["art","washes","away","soul","dust","everyday","living"],"answer":"Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living."},{"words":["suffer","people","illeducated","manners","corrupted","infancy","punish","crimes","education","disposed","concluded","make","thieves","punish"],"answer":"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."},{"words":["love","expecting","getonly","expecting","givewhich"],"answer":"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything."},{"words":["hell","benefits","torture"],"answer":"Hell has no benefits, only torture."},{"words":["absence","sharpens","love","presence","strengthens"],"answer":"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."},{"words":["intense","love","does","measure","just","gives"],"answer":"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."},{"words":["feelings","change","gone","thought","meant","impending","destruction","world"],"answer":"My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world."},{"words":["power","great","aphrodisiac"],"answer":"Power is the great aphrodisiac."},{"words":["i","like","cigar","i","mouth"],"answer":"I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while."},{"words":["forgive","man","making","useful","thing","long","does","admire","excuse","making","useless","thing","admires","intensely","art","quite","useless"],"answer":"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. 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I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time."},{"words":["i","great","faith","fools","selfconfidence","friends"],"answer":"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it."},{"words":["superman","batman","america","views","darker","character","rest","world","views","america"],"answer":"About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America."},{"words":["wise","man","sure","knows","true"],"answer":"A wise man is never to sure of what he knows to be true."},{"words":["price","freedom","eternal","vigilance"],"answer":"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."},{"words":["leader","right","beaten","right","surprised"],"answer":"A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised."},{"words":["history","teaches","wars","begin","governments","believe","price","aggression","cheap"],"answer":"History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."},{"words":["compulsion","produce","virtue","produce","outward","semblance","virtue"],"answer":"Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue."},{"words":["men","arms","set","men","free","sacred","holy","warfare"],"answer":"When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare."},{"words":["beauty","wonder","wonders","shallow","people","judge","appearances"],"answer":"Beauty is the wonder of wonders. 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No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!"},{"words":["man","afraid","death","afraid","life","life","brings","death","afraid","enemy","close","door","friend","prohibited"],"answer":"A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited."},{"words":["man","afflicts","human","race","ideas","prepared","misunderstood"],"answer":"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."},{"words":["good","music","good","music","hell"],"answer":"Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell."},{"words":["worth","doing","completed","lifetime","saved","hope"],"answer":"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope."},{"words":["necessity","mother","invention"],"answer":"Necessity, who is the mother of invention."},{"words":["love","takes","place","good","evil"],"answer":"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."},{"words":["plato","boring"],"answer":"Plato is boring."},{"words":["i","counsel","friends","distrust","impulse","punish","powerful"],"answer":"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"},{"words":["man","knowledge","able","love","enemies","hate","friends"],"answer":"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."},{"words":["thinker","sees","actions","experiments","questionsas","attempts","success","failure","answers"],"answer":"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. 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All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."},{"words":["christianity","morality","religion","come","contact","reality","point"],"answer":"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."},{"words":["perfect","man","uses","mind","mirrorbrit","grasps","regrets","nothingbrit","receives","does"],"answer":"The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror.<br>It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.<br>It receives but does not keep."},{"words":["people","sleep","peaceably","beds","night","rough","men","stand","ready","violence","behalf"],"answer":"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."},{"words":["i","came","realize","life","lived","help","matters","dutythis","highest","best","use","human"],"answer":"I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human."},{"words":["dressing","inevitably","substitute","good","ideas","coincidence","technically","inept","business","types","known","suits"],"answer":"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as \"suits.\""},{"words":["i","love","hearing","relations","abused","thing","makes"],"answer":"I love hearing my relations abused. 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Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands."},{"words":["brains","head","feet","shoes","steer","direction","choose"],"answer":"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."},{"words":[],"answer":"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."},{"words":["human","race","lay","grave","epitaph","headstone","good","idea","time"],"answer":"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: \"It seemed a good idea at the time.\""},{"words":["way","i","want","rainbow","gotta","rain"],"answer":"The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain."},{"words":["kingdom","god"],"answer":"The kingdom of God or nothing."},{"words":["real","giants","poets","men","jumped","facts","realm","imagination","ideas"],"answer":"The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas."},{"words":["god","details"],"answer":"God is in the details."},{"words":["i","br","i","i","br"],"answer":"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? <br> If I am not for others, what am I? <br> And if not now, when?"},{"words":["realistic","terrorism","certain","groups","people","certain","groups","muslim","fundamentalists","christian","fundamentalists","jewish","fundamentalists","just","plain","guys","montanta","going","continue","make","life","country","interesting","long","long","time"],"answer":"You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time."},{"words":["thoughtfulness","generosity","modesty","selfrespect","qualities","make","real","gentleman","lady"],"answer":"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady."},{"words":["god","earth","accomplish","certain","number","things","right","i","far","i","die"],"answer":"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."},{"words":["tradition","means","giving","votes","obscure","classes","ancestors","democracy","dead","tradition","refuses","submit","small","arrogant","oligarchy","merely","happen","walking"],"answer":"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about."},{"words":["greater","darkness","fight","darkness","soul","lost","way","war","fight","powers","principalities","chaos","despair","greater","death","flesh","death","hope","death","dreams","peril","surrender"],"answer":"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender."},{"words":["greater","love","hath","man","lay","life","brother","millions","","glory","fame","person","","dark","","know",""],"answer":"No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where no one will ever know .. or see."},{"words":["good","soldier","love","army","good","commander","willing","order","death","thing","love"],"answer":"To be a good soldier, you must love the army. 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Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations."},{"words":["thinking","opened","wide","mecca","i","wrote","long","letters","friends","i","tried","convey","new","insights","american","black","man"],"answer":"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man"},{"words":["great","improvement","come","repeated","failure","virtually","comes","right","time","failures","repeated","failures","posts","road","achievement"],"answer":"Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement."},{"words":["importance","attach","things","world","friendship","disappears","liked","comes","grief","likes","powerful","love","deceived","fleeting","guilty","fame","share","mediocrity","crime","fortune","frivolity","counted","blessing","remains","socalled","happy","days","flow","past","unnoticed","obscurity","domestic","cares","leaving","man","desire","lose","life","begin"],"answer":"What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over."},{"words":["song","words","tend","lose","significance","lose","extreme","current","prose","musical","value","tends","disappear","","verse","stands","symmetrically","song","hand","prose","","admirably","delicately","balanced","sensual","intellectual","power","language"],"answer":"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language."},{"words":["key","immortality","living","life","worth","remembering"],"answer":"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."},{"words":["life","try"],"answer":"Life is something that everyone should try at least once."},{"words":["i","going","buy","copy","power","positive","thinking","i","thought","hell","good"],"answer":"I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?"},{"words":["key","good","manager","keeping","people","hate","away","undecided"],"answer":"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."},{"words":["object","life","majority","escape","finding","oneself","ranks","insane"],"answer":"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."},{"words":["love","falls","line"],"answer":"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."},{"words":["everybody","everybody","everybody","ceremony","begin"],"answer":"Is everybody in? 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She told me to go and keep an eye on it."},{"words":["notices","remains"],"answer":"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."},{"words":["forget","radium","discovered","knew","prove","useful","hospitals","work","pure","science","proof","scientific","work","considered","point","view","direct","usefulness","beauty","science","chance","scientific","discovery","like","radium","benefit","humanity"],"answer":"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity."},{"words":["i","think","science","great","beauty","scientist","laboratory","technician","child","placed","natural","phenomena","impress","like","fairy","tale"],"answer":"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."},{"words":["life","feared","understood","time","understand","fear"],"answer":"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. 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Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat\"."},{"words":["look","bad","people","surely"],"answer":"If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it."},{"words":["sex","nature","i","nature"],"answer":"Sex is part of nature, I go with nature."},{"words":["difficult","man","understand","job","depends","understanding"],"answer":"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."},{"words":["capable","usbr","capable"],"answer":"Many of us are more capable than some of us...<br> but none of us is as capable as all of us!!"},{"words":["i","lot","learn","","business","music","exciting"],"answer":"I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. 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But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."},{"words":["defense","nation","president","cleareyed","realist","limits","smiles","scowls","diplomacy","armies","missiles","stopped","stiff","notes","condemnation","held","check","strength","purpose","promise","swift","punishment"],"answer":"In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment."},{"words":["american","foreign","policy","management","crisis","great","guiding","goal","turn","time","american","influence","generations","democratic","peace"],"answer":"American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. 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It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."},{"words":["able","support","oneself","allows","choose","marriage","love","just","economic","dependence","allows","risk","marriage"],"answer":"Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage."},{"words":["i","think","think","months","years","ninetynine","times","conclusion","false","hundredth","time","i","right"],"answer":"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."},{"words":["censorship","like","charity","begin","home","unlike","charity","end"],"answer":"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."},{"words":["jesus","bachelor","lived","woman","surely","living","woman","difficult","things","man","did"],"answer":"Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it."},{"words":["brevity","soul","wit"],"answer":"Brevity is the soul of wit."},{"words":["truth","fears","questions"],"answer":"Truth fears no questions."},{"words":["i","cruel","kind"],"answer":"I must be cruel, only to be kind."},{"words":["death","ends","life","relationship"],"answer":"Death ends a life, not a relationship."},{"words":["tell","lie","","tell","big"],"answer":"If you tell a lie -- tell a big one."},{"words":["i","meant","said","ipslore","bitterly","world","truly","makes","living","worthwhilebr","death","thought","itbr","cats","said","eventually","cats","nice"],"answer":"\"I meant,\" said Ipslore bitterly, \"what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?\"<br> Death thought about it.<br> \"Cats,\" he said eventually. \"Cats are nice.\""},{"words":["thing","girl","hopes","garden","love","carat"],"answer":"The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat."},{"words":["pug","living","proof","god","sense","humor"],"answer":"The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor."},{"words":["long","people","going","lunatic","benefit","liberates","convention"],"answer":"As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? 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Never marry a musician, and never answer the door."},{"words":["strangers","just","family","come","know"],"answer":"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."},{"words":["holding","anger","poison","eats","inside","think","hating","weapon","attacks","person","harmed","hatred","curved","blade","harm"],"answer":"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."},{"words":["delight","beauty","butterfly","rarely","admit","changes","gone","achieve","beauty"],"answer":"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."},{"words":["courage","prize","seek","courage","die","decently","live","manfully"],"answer":"The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."},{"words":["demum","miser","est","cuius","nobilitas","miserias","nobilitatbr","wretched","man","fame","makes","misfortunes","famous"],"answer":"Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.<br> (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)"},{"words":["men","want","thing","women","underwear","support","comfort","freedom"],"answer":"Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom."},{"words":["child","world","hostage"],"answer":"When you have a child, the world has a hostage."},{"words":["world","grain","sand","heaven","wildflower","hold","infinity","palm","hand","eternity","hour"],"answer":"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."},{"words":["comes","sex","important","inches","ones","ears"],"answer":"When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears."},{"words":["highest","states","mind","held","mankind","christianity","supreme","value","actually","forms","convulsive","epilepsy"],"answer":"The \"highest\" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy."},{"words":["save","world","asked","man","diebr","man","ask"],"answer":"To save your world you asked this man to die;<br> Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"},{"words":["case","noticed","path","chose","chosen"],"answer":"In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you."},{"words":["picture","say","1000","words","inspire","write","1000"],"answer":"A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more."},{"words":["friends","great","work","appropriate","god"],"answer":"Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God."},{"words":["i","aughta","join","club","beat","head"],"answer":"I aughta join a club and beat you over the head with it."},{"words":["religiously","strict","people","judge","mercy","spoken","ill","mankind","general"],"answer":"Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general."},{"words":["humor","emotional","chaos","remembered","tranquility"],"answer":"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."},{"words":["control","ball","control","score"],"answer":"When you control the ball, you control the score."},{"words":["god"],"answer":"God is either everything, or He is nothing."},{"words":["look","things","way","ask","i","dream","things","ask"],"answer":"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"},{"words":["death","solves","problems","man","problem"],"answer":"Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."},{"words":["people","imagine","selfmade","seldom","enjoy","examining","process","manufacture"],"answer":"People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail."},{"words":["objective","worthy","war","i"],"answer":"Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you."},{"words":["romantics","meet","fate","someday","cynical","drunk","boring","dark","cafe"],"answer":"All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe."},{"words":["universe","magical","things","patiently","waiting","wits","grow","sharper"],"answer":"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."},{"words":["debate","slander","tool","loser"],"answer":"When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser."},{"words":["slew","goliath","raciismbut","contend","offspring"],"answer":"We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring."},{"words":["god","merely","interestd","freedom","brown","men","yellow","men","red","men","black","menhe","interested","freedom","human","race"],"answer":"God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race."},{"words":["true","everyday","life","battle","given","life","decision","wait","circumstances","make","mind","act","acting","live"],"answer":"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."},{"words":["trouble","having","open","mind","course","people","insist","coming","trying","things"],"answer":"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."},{"words":["animals","entire","universe","neatly","divided","things","mate","b","eat","c","run","away","d","rocks"],"answer":"For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks."},{"words":["stupid","men","capable","things","clever","dare","contemplate"],"answer":"Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate..."},{"words":["consensus","really","large","numbers","men","sent","storm","mountain","survive","rocks","citadel","essentially","basis","military","thinking"],"answer":"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. 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They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. 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But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin."},{"words":["means","refuge","miseries","life","music","cats"],"answer":"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."},{"words":["everybody","life","challenges","difficulties","mortal","test","","","","peace","comes","hope"],"answer":"Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . 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Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!"},{"words":["wonder","beginning","wisdom"],"answer":"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."},{"words":["i","young","men","townsmen","misfortune","inherited","farms","houses","cattle","barns","farming","tools","easily","acquired","gotten","rid","better","born","open","pasture","suckled","wolf","seen","clearer","eyes","field","called","labour"],"answer":"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in."},{"words":["i","life","just","email"],"answer":"I have no life, just e-mail."},{"words":["happiness","reward","","consequencebr","suffering","punishment","","result"],"answer":"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.<br> Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."},{"words":["art","away"],"answer":"Art is anything you can get away with."},{"words":["i","respect","soldier","country","serves","hard","work","history","america","grateful","america","forget"],"answer":"I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. 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For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."},{"words":["best","best","possible","ways"],"answer":"All is for the best in the best of all possible ways."},{"words":["does","relationship","eye","heart","eye","closed","looks","eye","open","looks"],"answer":"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without."},{"words":["succes","quest","life","time","worth","wait"],"answer":"succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait"},{"words":["government","like","baby","alimentary","canal","big","appetite","end","sense","responsibility"],"answer":"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."},{"words":["indefatigable","pursuit","unattainable","perfection","consists","pounding","old","piano","gives","meaning","life","unavailing","star"],"answer":"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star."},{"words":["search","brain","microscope","mind","search","stars","telescope","god"],"answer":"One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God."},{"words":["love","blind","sees","sees","chooses"],"answer":"Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less."},{"words":["bonus","lifting","ban","gays","military","time","government","mandates","draft","declare","homosexual","instead","running","canada"],"answer":"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada."},{"words":["soldiers","afraid","guns","bombs","capture","torture","death","say","afraid","homosexuals","clearly","used","soldiers","used","weapons"],"answer":"Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons."},{"words":["culture","comfortable","seeing","men","holding","guns","holding","hands"],"answer":"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"},{"words":["belief","hardly","sexual","life","broadcast","world","large","surprise","horror"],"answer":"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."},{"words":["male","homosexuals","called","gay","female","homosexuals","called","ecstatic"],"answer":"If male homosexuals are called \"gay,\" then female homosexuals should be called \"ecstatic.\""},{"words":["eventually","alas","i","realized","main","purpose","buying","cocaine","run"],"answer":"Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it."},{"words":["love","lord","uncertain","feeling","matter","concious","certainty","word","pierced","heart","i","loved","heaven","earth","sides","tell","love"],"answer":"My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you."},{"words":["come","makes","life","sweet"],"answer":"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."},{"words":["power","tax","conceded","limits","contains","destroys"],"answer":"The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys."},{"words":["i","twofaced","i","wearing"],"answer":"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"},{"words":["true","friendship","seen","heart","eyes"],"answer":"True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes."},{"words":["behave","cats","determines","status","heaven"],"answer":"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven."},{"words":["fool","protected","folly","attempt","arouse","animosity","attempting","deprive","benefit","capable","deriving","experience","attempt","teach","pig","sing","wastes","time","annoys","pig"],"answer":"A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig."},{"words":["premenstrual","syndrome","just","periods","women","behave","way","men","time"],"answer":"Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time."},{"words":["pessimist","correct","oftener","optimist","optimist","fun","","stop","march","events"],"answer":"A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events."},{"words":["remind","write","article","compulsive","reading","news","theme","neuroses","traced","unhealthy","habit","wallowing","troubles","billion","strangers"],"answer":"Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers."},{"words":["united","states","place","entertainers","professional","athletes","mistaken","people","importance"],"answer":"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance."},{"words":["laws","harm","families"],"answer":"There are laws for everything except the harm families do."},{"words":["emotion","rotten","base","politics"],"answer":"Emotion is a rotten base for politics."},{"words":["physics","science","tremendously","powerful","invisibilities","","magnetism","electricity","gravity","light","sound","cosmic","rays","physics","science","mysteries","universe","think","dull"],"answer":"Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?"},{"words":["truth","universally","acknowledged","single","man","possession","large","fortune","want","wife"],"answer":"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife."},{"words":["moment","begins","trade","principle","approval","power"],"answer":"The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power."},{"words":["best","beautiful","things","seen","heard","felt","heart"],"answer":"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart."},{"words":["irish","abiding","sense","tragedy","sustained","temporary","periods","joy"],"answer":"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."},{"words":["snowflake","avalanche","feels","responsible"],"answer":"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."},{"words":["people","prepared"],"answer":"People only see what they are prepared to see."},{"words":["believe","men","created","equal","created","image","god"],"answer":"We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God."},{"words":["tragedy","life","die","dies","inside","man","lives"],"answer":"the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives."},{"words":["humans","live","best","place","knows","belongs","scheme","things","destroy","place","destroy","person"],"answer":"Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person."},{"words":["social","responsibility","businessto","use","resources","engage","activities","designed","increase","profits","long","stays","rules","game","say","engages","open","free","competition","deception","fraud"],"answer":"There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."},{"words":["perserverance","long","race","short","races"],"answer":"Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."},{"words":["merely","want","considered","best","best","want","considered","ones"],"answer":"You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. 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Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."},{"words":["aspire","highest","place","disgrace","stop","second","place"],"answer":"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place."},{"words":["able","think","able"],"answer":"They are able because they think they are able."},{"words":["definition","guts","grace","pressure"],"answer":"[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure."},{"words":["confidence","twice","defeated","race","life","confidence","won","started"],"answer":"If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. 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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself."},{"words":["i","strange","i","i","problems","i","sit","closet","lot","time","come","i","sit","desk","desk","weird","things","like","wisdom","teeth","bleed","hallways"],"answer":"I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. 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As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."},{"words":[],"answer":"It"},{"words":["beginning","important","work"],"answer":"The beginning is the most important part of the work."},{"words":["stand","i","i"],"answer":"Here stand I. I can do no other."},{"words":["kind","people","think","think","bowed","tryanny"],"answer":"What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?"},{"words":["live","dream",""],"answer":"We live as we dream - alone."},{"words":["i","changed","happens","i","refuse","reduced"],"answer":"I can be changed by what happens to me. 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We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. 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He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."},{"words":["difference","natural","talents","different","men","reality","aware","different","genius","appears","distinguish","men","different","professions","grown","maturity","occasions","cause","effect","division","labour","difference","dissimilar","characters","philosopher","common","street","porter","example","arise","nature","habit","custom","education","came","world","years","existence","alike","parents","playfellows","perceive","remarkable","difference"],"answer":"The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. 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Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. 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It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side."},{"words":["rules","writing","novel","unfortunately","knows"],"answer":"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."},{"words":["jean","paul","sartre","says","exit","hell","people","task","life","make","heaven","earth"],"answer":"Jean Paul Sartre says in \"No Exit\" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. 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All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives."},{"words":["science","love","concentration","technique","lead","impotence"],"answer":"In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence."},{"words":["people","really","want","really","try","lives","i","think","i","don"],"answer":"If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don"},{"words":["know","i","say","people","i","hear"],"answer":"You know what I say to people when I hear they"},{"words":["way","problem","problem"],"answer":"The way we see the problem is the problem."},{"words":["make","god","laugh","tell","future","plans"],"answer":"How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans."},{"words":["course","true","love","easy"],"answer":"The course of true love was never easy."},{"words":["let","life","counter","friction","stop","machine"],"answer":"Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine."},{"words":["better","know","questions","answers"],"answer":"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."},{"words":["security","process","product"],"answer":"Security is a process, not a product."},{"words":["i","called","powerful","woman","world","i","occasion","lacked","power","speech","crossed","threshold","new","century","questions","answers"],"answer":"I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers."},{"words":["desire","wildest","tantrums","persuade","love","stop","wishing"],"answer":"Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were."},{"words":["capacity","passion","cruel","divine"],"answer":"The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine."},{"words":["stolen","sweets","best"],"answer":"Stolen sweets are best."},{"words":["dreams","i","accounted","refuge","annoyed","","dearest","pleasure","free"],"answer":"My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."},{"words":["easier","resist","beginning","end"],"answer":"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."},{"words":["fools","rush","best","seats"],"answer":"Fools rush in and get the best seats."},{"words":["illegal","aliens","problem","united","states","ask","indian"],"answer":"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. 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He is an American."},{"words":["ambition","dream","v8","engine"],"answer":"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."},{"words":["right","course","action"],"answer":"Everyone has a right to his own course of action."},{"words":["i","examined","subject","humor","i","surprised","ground","covers","i","got","divisions","frontiers","piece","paper","i","defined","production","brain","power","brain","produce","humorous","capacity","percieving","humor"],"answer":"I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. 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Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again."},{"words":["men","stumble","truth","time","time","pick","hurry","happened"],"answer":"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."},{"words":["winter","come","gonebr","grief","returns","revolving","year"],"answer":"Winter is come and gone,<br> But grief returns with the revolving year."},{"words":["horror","earth","real","day","like","flower","like","sun","contained"],"answer":"Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained."},{"words":["mind","ones","body","individual","sovereign"],"answer":"Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign."},{"words":["good","hard","evil","easy","dyinglosing","cheating","mediocrity","easy","stay","away","easy"],"answer":"All good is hard. 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Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights."},{"words":["better","i","think","grab","stars","sit","flustered","know","reach","reaches","good","stretch","good","view","lowhanging","apple","efforts"],"answer":"It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts."},{"words":["wide","world","friend","pain","filled","joy","keeps","path","growth","makes","journey","tolerable"],"answer":"There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. 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The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and<br>or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."},{"words":["selfishness","principal","cause","makes","life","unsatisfactory","want","mental","cultivation"],"answer":"Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation."},{"words":["life","spent","making","mistakes","honorable","useful","life","spent","doing"],"answer":"A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."},{"words":["things","important","human","life","kind","second","kind","kind"],"answer":"There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. 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If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven."},{"words":["christianity","tried","wanting","difficult","tried"],"answer":"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried."},{"words":["men","unfaithful","options"],"answer":"Men are only as unfaithful as their options."},{"words":["child","deserves","home","love","period"],"answer":"Every child deserves a home and love. Period."},{"words":["look","adoption","sacred","exchange","lightly","i","dedicate","life","child"],"answer":"We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. 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Be happy anyway."},{"words":["distance","insanity","genius","measured","success"],"answer":"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."},{"words":["lesson","learned","matters","state","heart","start","lie","rarely","end"],"answer":"It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."},{"words":["man","money","peace","begins","sound","good"],"answer":"Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him."},{"words":["liberty","means","means","right","tell","people","want","hear"],"answer":"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."},{"words":["said","man","trusted","governing","trusted","government","angels","forms","kings","govern","let","history","answer","question"],"answer":"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? 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We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience."},{"words":["possession","unlimited","power","make","despot","man","possible","nero","gentlest","human","creature","walks"],"answer":"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks."},{"words":["rich","owns","day","owns","day","allows","invated","worry","fret","anxiety"],"answer":"He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety."},{"words":["i","wealthy","friends"],"answer":"I am wealthy in my friends."},{"words":["i","wish","good","charm","life","offer","think","kindly","rest","assured","rejoice","hear","happiness"],"answer":"I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. 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To have it make some difference that you lived at all."},{"words":["kindness","language","deaf","hear","blind"],"answer":"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."},{"words":["faith","strength","shattered","world","shall","emerge","light"],"answer":"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."},{"words":["i","paradox","i","love","hurts","hurt","love"],"answer":"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."},{"words":["come","peace","merely","distant","goal","seek","means","arrive","goal","pursue","peaceful","ends","peaceful","means"],"answer":"We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. 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This is to have succeeded."},{"words":["people","enormously","improved","death"],"answer":"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."},{"words":["o","death","healer","scorn","thou","i","praybr","come","cureless","ills","thou","artbr","physician","pain","lays","touchbr","corpse"],"answer":"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,<br> To come to me: of cureless ills thou art<br> The one physician. Pain lays not its touch<br> Upon a corpse."},{"words":["gods","death","craves","giftsbr","sacrifice","drinkoffering","pouredbr","avails","altars","hath","soothedbr","hymns","praise","allbr","powers","heaven","persuasion","holds","aloof"],"answer":"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:<br> Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured<br> Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed<br> By hymns of praise. From him alone of all<br> The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof."},{"words":["i","far","ignorant","wise","foreboding","evil"],"answer":"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."},{"words":["eyes","seeing","br","beauty","excuse"],"answer":"If eyes were made for seeing, <br> Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."},{"words":["smile","partial","beauty","wonbr","oh","man"],"answer":"Without the smile from partial beauty won,<br> Oh what were man?"},{"words":["resolve","thyself","know","finds","loses","misery"],"answer":"Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery."},{"words":["life","worth","living","yes","longbr","wrong","right"],"answer":"Is life worth living? Yes, so long<br> As there is wrong to right."},{"words":["long","faith","freedom","reignsbr","loyal","hope","survives","br","gracious","charity","remainsbr","leaven","lowly","lives","br","untrodden","tractbr","intellect","br","men","free","think","actbr","life","worth","living"],"answer":"So long as faith with freedom reigns<br> And loyal hope survives, <br> And gracious charity remains<br> To leaven lowly lives; <br> While there is one untrodden tract<br> For intellect or will, <br> And men are free to think and act,<br> Life is worth living still."},{"words":["night","thousand","eyesbr","day","br","light","bright","world","diesbr","dying","sun","br","mind","thousand","eyesbr","heart","br","light","life","diesbr","love"],"answer":"The Night has a thousand eyes,<br> And the Day but one; <br> Yet the light of the bright world dies<br> With the dying sun. <br> The mind has a thousand eyes,<br> And the heart but one; <br> Yet the light of a whole life dies<br> When love is done."},{"words":["minutes","computer","make","mistake","great","taken","men","months","equal"],"answer":"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it."},{"words":["deny","need","want","power","deny","hope","effective"],"answer":"To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective."},{"words":["essence","independence","think","act","according","standards","inevitably","independent","mind","resists","opposes","authority","established","conventions","rebel","people","come","agree","follow","rebel","devil","course","people","agree","finally","","greatness"],"answer":"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become \"one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions\": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness."},{"words":["i","expect","pass","world","good","i","kindness","i","fellow","creature","let","let","defer","neglect","i","shall","pass","way"],"answer":"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."},{"words":["man","gone","school","steal","freight","car","university","education","steal","railroad"],"answer":"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."},{"words":["affection","manufactored","regulated","law","affection","person","free","fullest","expression","disaffection","long","does","contemplate","promote","incite","violence"],"answer":"Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence."},{"words":["trouble","trying","make","stupider","really","succeed"],"answer":"The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."},{"words":["good","intentions","pleaded","assumption","authority","hardly","strong","say","constitution","guard","people","dangers","good","intentions","men","ages","mean","govern","mean","govern","promise","good","masters","mean","masters"],"answer":"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. 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Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."},{"words":["promises","better","left","unsaid"],"answer":"Some promises are better left unsaid"},{"words":["general","art","government","consists","taking","money","possible","citizens"],"answer":"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other."},{"words":["greatness","great","power","producing","great","effects","man","great","power","shew","world","way","hid","gainsaid"],"answer":"Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid."},{"words":["man","truly","great","great","lifetime","test","greatness","page","history"],"answer":"No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history."},{"words":["journey","thousand","leagues","begins","beneath","feet"],"answer":"The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet."},{"words":["popularity","fame","greatness"],"answer":"Popularity is neither fame nor greatness."},{"words":["king","great","man","great","power"],"answer":"A King (as such) is not a great man. 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It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."},{"words":["acquire","great","power","acquire","wisdom","use"],"answer":"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well."},{"words":["truth","subject","analysis"],"answer":"Truth is subject to too much analysis."},{"words":["blood","thicker","water","politics","thicker","blood"],"answer":"Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood."},{"words":["absolute","power","power","destroy"],"answer":"Absolute power is the power to destroy."},{"words":["beaurocracy","destroys","initiative"],"answer":"Beaurocracy destroys initiative."},{"words":["impossible","live","past","difficult","live","present","waste","live","future"],"answer":"It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future."},{"words":["seek","freedom","captive","desires","seek","discipline","liberty"],"answer":"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty."},{"words":["humans","live","best","place","stand","knows","belongs","scheme","things","achieve","destroy","place","destroy","person"],"answer":"Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. 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There is no such thing."},{"words":["dost","thou","love","life","squander","time","stuff","life"],"answer":"Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of."},{"words":["people","happy","make","minds"],"answer":"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."},{"words":["arithmetic","numbers","squeeze","head","hand","pencil","paper","right","answer"],"answer":"Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer."},{"words":["i","hate","quotations"],"answer":"I hate quotations."},{"words":["rhinoceros","enter","resteraunt","denying","great","power","i","rise","assure","authority"],"answer":"If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."},{"words":["i","desire","experience","world","satisfy","probable","explanation","i","world"],"answer":"I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."},{"words":["burned","ran","bamboo","grove","grove","caught"],"answer":"He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire."},{"words":["humans","knack","choosing","precisely","things","worst"],"answer":"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."},{"words":["shot","cannon","better","squeezed","tube"],"answer":"Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube."},{"words":["life","important","taken","seriously"],"answer":"Life is too important to be taken seriously."},{"words":["courage","does","roar","courage","quiet","voice","end","day","saying","i","try","tomorrow"],"answer":"Courage does not always roar. 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Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk."},{"words":["people","age","world","vile","maxim","masters","mankind"],"answer":"All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."},{"words":["stop","thinking","end","problems"],"answer":"Stop thinking, and end your problems."},{"words":["greatest","happiness","life","conviction","loved","loved","loved","spite"],"answer":"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."},{"words":["faith","necessity","man","woe","believes"],"answer":"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."},{"words":["fear","mistakes"],"answer":"Do not fear mistakes, there are none."},{"words":["imitate","innovate"],"answer":"First you imitate, then you innovate."},{"words":["fiction","writing","great","make"],"answer":"Fiction writing is great. 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But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."},{"words":["actress","success","face","venus","brains","minerva","grace","terpsichore","memory","macaulay","figure","juno","hide","rhinoceros"],"answer":"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."},{"words":["successful","person","lay","firm","foundation","bricks","throw"],"answer":"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."},{"words":["existence","perfect","dark","places","i","longer","care"],"answer":"Why is my existence so perfect with dark places? And why do I no longer care?"},{"words":["sequence","events","particular","order"],"answer":"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."},{"words":["road","truth","long","lined","entire","way","annoying","bastards"],"answer":"The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards."},{"words":["main","hope","i"],"answer":"My main hope for myself is to be where I am."},{"words":["life","important","americans"],"answer":"Life is very important to Americans."},{"words":["assume","fellow","intelligence","equal"],"answer":"Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. 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Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature."},{"words":["seldom","liberty","kind","lost"],"answer":"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."},{"words":["communism","happens","mind","men","free","god"],"answer":"Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God."},{"words":["drift","hell","heaven","steer"],"answer":"To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer."},{"words":["secret","success","know","knows"],"answer":"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."},{"words":["life","worth","living","say","make"],"answer":"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."},{"words":["good","evil","reward","punishment","motives","rational","creature","spur","reins","mankind","set","work","guided"],"answer":"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."},{"words":["thy","hand","findest","thy","heart"],"answer":"Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart."},{"words":["spend","days","course","spend","lives"],"answer":"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."},{"words":["statistics","like","drunk","lampost","used","support","illumination"],"answer":"Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination."},{"words":["friend","knows","loves","just"],"answer":"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."},{"words":["falls","generation","great","great","generation"],"answer":"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."},{"words":["like","slavery","apartheid","poverty","natural","manmade","overcome","eradicated","actions","human","beings"],"answer":"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."},{"words":["shall","cease","exploration","end","exploring","arrive","started","know","place","time"],"answer":"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."},{"words":["science","","warns","careful","i","adopt","view","jumps","preconceptions","require","stronger","evidence","belief","i","previously","hostile","business","teach","aspirations","conform","fact","try","make","facts","harmonize","aspirations"],"answer":"Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."},{"words":["god","comedian","playing","audience","afraid","laugh"],"answer":"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."},{"words":["state","great","ficticious","entity","seeks","live","expense"],"answer":"The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."},{"words":["insignificant","important"],"answer":"Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it."},{"words":["kings","sword","justice","lay","br","art","kings","posess","crownbr","titles","shadows","crowns","thingsbr","good","subjects","end","kings"],"answer":"When kings the sword of justice first lay down; <br> They art no kings, though they posess the crown;<br> Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,<br> The good of subjects is the end of kings."},{"words":["late","happy","childhood"],"answer":"Its never too late to have a happy childhood."},{"words":["talk","wasted","affection","affection","wasted"],"answer":"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."},{"words":["i","destroying","enemies","i","make","friends"],"answer":"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"},{"words":["doubt","alcohol","tobacco","forth","things","saint","avoid","sainthood","thing","human","beings","avoid"],"answer":"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid."},{"words":["mountain","conquer"],"answer":"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."},{"words":["love","merely","madness"],"answer":"Love is merely madness."},{"words":["orthodoxy","means","thinkingnot","needing","think","orthodoxy","unconsciousness"],"answer":"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. 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I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."},{"words":["pretty","gift","quotation","serviceable","substitute","wit"],"answer":"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."},{"words":["life","just","quick","succession","busy","nothings"],"answer":"Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings."},{"words":["drugs","bet","mind"],"answer":"Drugs are a bet with your mind."},{"words":["pamphlet","patriotic","talked","killing","foreigners"],"answer":"[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners."},{"words":["ancestors","really","thinking","alive","today","dark"],"answer":"What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: \"Why is it so dark in here?\""},{"words":["good","bookshop","just","genteel","black","hole","knows","read"],"answer":"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."},{"words":["time","gotten","trouble","decided"],"answer":"The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something."},{"words":["dreams","goals","ambitions","","stuff","man","uses","fuel"],"answer":"Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel."},{"words":["regret","yesterday","life","today","make","tomorrow"],"answer":"Never regret yesterday. 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I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."},{"words":["women","needs","4","animals","mink","closet","jaguar","garage","tiger","bed","jackass","pays"],"answer":"Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything."},{"words":["believe","explanation","necessary","suffice"],"answer":"For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice."},{"words":["supreme","happiness","greatest","cause","misery","perfection","wisdom","occassion","folly"],"answer":"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."},{"words":["absence","diminishes","small","loves","increases","great","ones","wind","blows","candle","fans","bonfire"],"answer":"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."},{"words":["reasons","murdering","man","justification","existence"],"answer":"There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence."},{"words":["i","try","try","deny","i","need","remain","mind"],"answer":"I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind."},{"words":["divinity","decides","reveal","future","human","kind","sum","human","wisdom","contained","words","wait","hope"],"answer":"Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."},{"words":["takes","great","deal","courage","stand","enemies","stand","friends"],"answer":"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."},{"words":["purpose","i","trouble","searching","secrets","stars","having","death","slavery","continually","eyes"],"answer":"To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?"},{"words":["i","money","resources","hope","i","happiest","man","alive"],"answer":"I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive."},{"words":["i","interested","money","i","just","want","wonderful"],"answer":"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."},{"words":["absence","love","wind","extinguishes","small","enkindles","great"],"answer":"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."},{"words":["actress","machine","treat","like","machine","money","machine"],"answer":"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."},{"words":["i","knew","i","belonged","public","world","i","talented","beautiful","i","belonged"],"answer":"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."},{"words":["i","want","grow","old","facelifts","i","want","courage","loyal","face","i"],"answer":"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."},{"words":["enjoy","freedoms","enjoy","forget","time","men","died","earn"],"answer":"Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them."},{"words":["true","strength","lies","gentleness"],"answer":"True strength lies in gentleness."},{"words":["passing","ordinary","man","sad","passing","great","man","tragic","doubly","tragic","greatness","passes","man","does"],"answer":"The passing of an ordinary man is sad. 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Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked."},{"words":["india","left","indelible","imprints","fourth","human","race","course","long","succession","centuries","right","reclaim","place","great","nations","summarizing","symbolizing","spirit","humanity","persia","chinese","sea","icy","regions","siberia","islands","java","borneo","india","propagated","beliefs","tales","civilization"],"answer":"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization."},{"words":["suffering","acute","lasting","words"],"answer":"Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words."},{"words":["eh","je","suis","leur","chef","il","fallait","bien","les","suivrebr","ah","i","leader","i","really","ought","follow"],"answer":"Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre.<br> (Ah well! 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One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered."},{"words":["read","persevere","sit","nights","inquire","exert","utmost","power","mind","way","does","lead","desired","meaning","obstacles","arise","strength","holds","clear","looked","dark"],"answer":"You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark."},{"words":["i","paint","selfportraits","i","i","person","i","know","best"],"answer":"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"},{"words":["social","engaged","intellectuals","accept","reality","shape","positive","social","goals","stand","aside","selfrighteous","isolation"],"answer":"Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation."},{"words":["power","love","overcomes","love","power","world","know","peace"],"answer":"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."},{"words":["i","think","football","sport","way","ducks","think","hunting","sport"],"answer":"I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport."},{"words":["major","writing","say","seen","need","said"],"answer":"Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again."},{"words":["man","views","world","fifty","did","wasted","thirty","years","life"],"answer":"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."},{"words":["i","thought","i","learning","live","i","learning","die"],"answer":"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."},{"words":["guard","spare","moments","like","uncut","diamonds","discard","value","known","improve","brightest","gems","useful","life"],"answer":"Guard well your spare moments. 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It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. 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"},{"words":["hold","man","responsible","says","grief"],"answer":"Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief."},{"words":["honesty","probably","sexiest","thing","man","woman"],"answer":"Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman."},{"words":["freedom"],"answer":"Freedom is from within."},{"words":["truth","universally","acknowledged","single","man","possession","good","fortune","want","wife"],"answer":"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."},{"words":["golf","game","aim","hit","small","ball","smaller","hole","weapons","singularly","ill","designed","purpose"],"answer":"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose."},{"words":["convictions","dangerous","enemies","truth","lies"],"answer":"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies."},{"words":["people","like","stainedglass","windows","sparkle","shine","sun","darkness","sets","true","beuty","revealed","light"],"answer":"People are like stained-glass windows. 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I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."},{"words":["tis","good","thing","laugh","rate","straw","tickle","man","instrument","happiness"],"answer":"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness."},{"words":["life","laughing","matter","imagine","having","live","laughing"],"answer":"Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing."},{"words":["laughter","bad","beginning","friendship","far","best","ending"],"answer":"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one."},{"words":["man","heartily","wholly","laughed","altogether","irreclaimably","bad"],"answer":"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."},{"words":["laughter","man","contentment","god"],"answer":"The laughter of a man is the contentment of God."},{"words":["smile","curve","sets","straight"],"answer":"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."},{"words":["world","rules","love","amiable","hero","powerful","strong","dominion","genius","organizing"],"answer":"In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing."},{"words":["makes","sense","humor","disappear","faster","having","somebody","ask"],"answer":"Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is."},{"words":["laughed","laughs"],"answer":"He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first."},{"words":["smile","really","mean"],"answer":"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."},{"words":["humor","survive"],"answer":"If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it."},{"words":["laugh","world","laughs","youbr","weep","weep","alonebr","sad","old","earth","borrow","mirthbr","trouble"],"answer":"Laugh and the world laughs with you;<br> Weep and you weep alone;<br> For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,<br> but has trouble enough of its own."},{"words":["sad","heart","cease","repiningbr","clouds","sun","shiningbr","thy","fate","common","fate","allbr","life","little","rain","fallbr","days","dark","dreary"],"answer":"Be still sad heart and cease repining;<br> Behind the clouds the sun is shining,<br> Thy fate is the common fate of all,<br> Into each life a little rain must fall,<br> Some days must be dark and dreary."},{"words":["remember","far","better","follow","lead","indifferently"],"answer":"Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently."},{"words":["committee","consist","men","absent"],"answer":"To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent."},{"words":["committee","make","decision","dumber","members"],"answer":"A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members."},{"words":["kinds","people","really","fascinating","people","know","absolutely","people","know","absolutely"],"answer":"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."},{"words":["crisis","today","joke","tomorrow"],"answer":"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."},{"words":["ways","meeting","difficulties","alter","difficulities","alter","meet"],"answer":"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them."},{"words":["fight","life","action","reaction"],"answer":"One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."},{"words":["times","good","happy","time","bad","consider","god"],"answer":"When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other."},{"words":["blessed","hunger","satisfied","blessed","weep","laugh"],"answer":"Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh."},{"words":["real","training","leadership","leadership"],"answer":"The only real training for leadership is leadership."},{"words":["strong","courageous","afraid","tremblefor","lord","god","goes","fail","forsake"],"answer":"Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble...for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you."},{"words":["lord","light","salvation","","i","afraid"],"answer":"The Lord is my light and my salvation - so why should I be afraid."},{"words":["reason","popular","passions","feelings","popular","reason","remain","sole","property","eminent","individuals"],"answer":"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals."},{"words":["expect","things"],"answer":"You have to expect things of yourself before you do them."},{"words":["beliefs","thoughts","thoughts","words","words","actions","actions","habits","habits","values","values","destiny"],"answer":"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny."},{"words":["i","hope","confortable","use","logic","wihout","deceived","concluding","logic","inevitably","lead","correct","conclusion"],"answer":"I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion."},{"words":["comforted","dear","soul","light","clouds"],"answer":"Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds."},{"words":["matters","look","scar","hurt","look","scar","healing","try","understand"],"answer":"What matters is this: you can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand."},{"words":["problem","gift","hands"],"answer":"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."},{"words":["art","leading","operations","large","small","art","dealing","humanity","working","diligently","behalf","men","sympathetic","equally","insisting","make","square","facing","problems"],"answer":"The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems."},{"words":["encounter","defeats","defeated"],"answer":"You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated."},{"words":["sunshine","delicious","rain","refreshing","wind","braces","snow","exhilarating","thing","bad","weather","different","kinds","good","weather"],"answer":"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."},{"words":["hope","species","happiness","chief","happiness","world","affords"],"answer":"Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."},{"words":["nature","giver","hands","born","open","heart","times","hands","heart","things"],"answer":"If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that."},{"words":["kindness","important","wisdom","recognition","beginning","wisdom"],"answer":"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."},{"words":["history","war","bunch","murders","natural","disasters"],"answer":"History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between."},{"words":["hating","yankees","american","pizza","pie","unwed","mothers","cheating","income","tax"],"answer":"Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax."},{"words":["taught","ashamed","confusion","anger","fear","sadness","equal","value","happiness","excitement","inspiration"],"answer":"We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration."},{"words":["beat","boats","current","borne","ceaselessly","past"],"answer":"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."},{"words":["comedy","acting","optimism"],"answer":"Comedy is acting out optimism."},{"words":["training","reach","turn","bad","morals","good","destroy","bad","principles","recreate","good","ones","lift","men","angelship"],"answer":"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."},{"words":["people","bring","courage","world","world","kill","break","course","kills","world","breaks","afterward","strong","broken","places","break","kills","kills","good","gentle","brave","impartially","sure","kill","special","hurry"],"answer":"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."},{"words":["liberty","established","morality","morality","faith"],"answer":"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."},{"words":["americans","combine","notions","christianity","liberty","intimately","minds","impossible","make","conceive"],"answer":"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other."},{"words":["free","men","negotiate","prisoners","enter","contracts","freedom","separated"],"answer":"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. 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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live."},{"words":["ridiculous","emotions","people","ceased","love"],"answer":"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."},{"words":["angels","dancing","head","pin","dissolve","nothingness","bedside","dying","child"],"answer":"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child."},{"words":["people","fond","giving","away","need","i","depth","generosity"],"answer":"People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. 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Not the way we play it."},{"words":["justice","incidental","law","order"],"answer":"Justice is incidental to law and order."},{"words":["good","shepherd","shear","flock","skin"],"answer":"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."},{"words":[],"answer":"Here"},{"words":["beautiful","thing","experience","mysterious","source","true","art","science","emotion","stranger","longer","pause","wonder","stand","rapt","awe","good","dead","eyes","closed"],"answer":"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."},{"words":["choice","free","","choice","terrible","things"],"answer":"To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things."},{"words":["thoughts","tyrants","return","torment"],"answer":"Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us."},{"words":["i","wish","invention","bottled","memory","like","perfume","faded","got","stale","i","wanted","i","uncork","bottle","live","memory"],"answer":"I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again."},{"words":["love","away","love"],"answer":"The love we give away is the only love we keep."},{"words":["best","thing","future","comes","day","time"],"answer":"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."},{"words":["new","face","courage","puts"],"answer":"What a new face courage puts on everything."},{"words":["future","place","place","better","days"],"answer":"The future is no place to place your better days."},{"words":["hardest","accept","passage","time","people","mattered","wrapped","parentheses"],"answer":"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses."},{"words":["proud","boast","women","contributed","line","bible"],"answer":"It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible."},{"words":["i","contend","atheists","i","just","believe","fewer","god","understand","dismiss","possible","gods","understand","i","dismiss"],"answer":"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."},{"words":["struggle","progress"],"answer":"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."},{"words":["question","boldness","existance","god","approve","homage","reason","blindfolded","fear"],"answer":"Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."},{"words":["religion","excellent","stuff","keeping","common","people","quiet"],"answer":"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."},{"words":["explain","unknown","known","logical","procedure","explain","known","unknown","form","theological","lunacy"],"answer":"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy."},{"words":["sad","science","moves","ahead","exciting","new","areas","research","finetuning","knowledge","life","originated","evolved","creationists","remain","mired","medieval","debates","angels","head","pin","animals","belly","ark"],"answer":"It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark."},{"words":["i","refuse","labeled","immoral","merely","i","godless"],"answer":"I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless."},{"words":["greatest","glory","falling","rising","time","fall"],"answer":"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."},{"words":["kind","words","short","easy","speak","echoes","truly","endless"],"answer":"Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."},{"words":["fault","dear","brutus","lies","stars","underlings"],"answer":"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings."},{"words":["man","lowers","head","lunges","civilization","forgetting","days","infancy","sought","truth","snowflake","stick","man","forgets","wisdom","child"],"answer":"Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child."},{"words":["i","suddenly","discovered","delight","rebellion"],"answer":"I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion."},{"words":["influence","beautiful","helpful","hopeful","character","contagious","revolutionize","town"],"answer":"The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town."},{"words":["i","dream","living"],"answer":"I dream for a living."},{"words":["pay","dollar","bookmark","use","dollar","bookmark"],"answer":"Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? 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I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor."},{"words":["man","marries","fulfilled","half","faith","let","remain","conscious","god","regarding","remaining","halfbr"],"answer":"When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of (his) faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half<br>"},{"words":["soul","oftentimes","battlefield","reason","judgment","wage","war","passion","appetite"],"answer":"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite."},{"words":["dies","fatal","truths","antidotes"],"answer":"No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them."},{"words":["people","comprehend","thing","depths","rarely","stay","faithful","forever","brought","depths","light","day","depths","unpleasant"],"answer":"People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see."},{"words":["answer","asks","beautiful","question"],"answer":"Every answer asks a more beautiful question"},{"words":["oak","tree","started","couple","nuts","decided","stand","ground"],"answer":"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground."},{"words":["people","rarely","succeed","unless","fun","doing"],"answer":"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."},{"words":["lose","hold","dreams","aspirations","exist","ceased","live"],"answer":"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."},{"words":["let","think","i","man","i","i"],"answer":"Let him think I am more man that I am and I will be so."},{"words":["knowledge","fatal","uncertainty","charms","mist","makes","things","beautiful"],"answer":"Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful."},{"words":["people","come","say","emo","people","really","come"],"answer":"People come up to me and say, \"Emo, do people really come up to you?\""},{"words":["i","reject","reality","substitute"],"answer":"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"},{"words":["death","extinguishing","lightbr","simply","putting","lamp","br","dawn","come"],"answer":"Death is not extinguishing the light<br> It is simply putting out the lamp <br> Because the dawn has come"},{"words":["love","gives","naught","takes","naught","itselfbr","love","possesses","possessedbr","love","sufficient","unto","love"],"answer":"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.<br> Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;<br> For love is sufficient unto love."},{"words":["shall","free","days","care","nights","want","grief","things","girdle","life","rise","naked","unbound"],"answer":"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound."},{"words":["man","did","weave","web","life","merely","strand","does","web","does"],"answer":"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."},{"words":["pain","breaking","shell","encloses","understanding"],"answer":"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."},{"words":["evil","good","tortured","hunger","thirstbr","verily","good","hungry","seeks","food","dark","caves","thirsts","drinks","dead","waters"],"answer":"For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?<br> Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."},{"words":["beauty","life","life","unveils","holy","facebr","life","veilbr","beauty","eternity","gazing","mirrorbr","eternity","mirror"],"answer":"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.<br> But you are life and you are the veil.<br> Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.<br> But you are eternity and you are the mirror."},{"words":["die","stand","naked","wind","melt","sunbr","cease","breathing","free","breath","restless","tides","rise","expand","seek","god","unencumbered"],"answer":"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?<br> And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?"},{"words":["result","thought","man","speaks","acts","evil","thought","pain","follows","man","speaks","acts","pure","thought","happiness","follows","like","shadow","leaves"],"answer":"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. 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"},{"words":["beautiful","rest","afterward"],"answer":"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward."},{"words":["important","recognize","celebrate","heroes","sheroes"],"answer":"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"},{"words":["far","stream","flows","forgets","source"],"answer":"However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source."},{"words":["long","night","dawn","break"],"answer":"However long the night, the dawn will break."},{"words":["humanity","acquiring","right","technology","wrong","reasons",""],"answer":"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. "},{"words":["humanity","composed","categories","invalids","nurses",""],"answer":"Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses. "},{"words":["humility","substitute","good","personality",""],"answer":"Humility is no substitute for a good personality. 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That will not happen on my watch. "},{"words":["net","interprets","censorship","damage","routes"],"answer":"The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it."},{"words":["charity","cost","world","philanthropists"],"answer":"If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists."},{"words":["children","grew","according","early","indications","geniuses"],"answer":"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."},{"words":["columbus","advisory","committee","probably","dock",""],"answer":"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. 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There are only so many tomorrows."},{"words":["cross","bridges","come","burn","progress","memory","smell","smoke","presumption","eyes","watered"],"answer":"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."},{"words":["evil","powerless","good","unafraid"],"answer":"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid."},{"words":["rules","soft","seldomly","followed","rules","harsh","seldomly","executed"],"answer":"Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed."},{"words":["nice","guys","finish"],"answer":"Nice guys finish last."},{"words":["beauty","daylightsaving","time","just","makes","feel","sunnier"],"answer":"The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier."},{"words":["i","object","told","i","saving","daylight","reason","tells","i","doing","kind","daylight","saving","scheme","i","detect","bony","bluefingered","hand","puritanism","eager","push","people","bed","earlier","earlier","make","healthy","wealthy","wise","spite"],"answer":"I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... 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The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."},{"words":["everybody","wants","somebody","wants","grow"],"answer":"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."},{"words":["means","useless","unless","does"],"answer":"\"He means well\" is useless unless he does well."},{"words":["courteous","intimate","let","tried","confidence","true","friendship","plant","slow","grow","undergo","withstand","shocks","adversity","entitled","appellation"],"answer":"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."},{"words":["hollywood","place","people","iowa","mistake","stars"],"answer":"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars."},{"words":["telling","obey","instinct","like","telling","obey","people","people","say","different","things","instincts","instincts","war","instinct","listen","claim","gratified","expense","rest"],"answer":"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey \"people.\" People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest...."},{"words":["grace","pressure"],"answer":"Grace under Pressure."},{"words":["live","life","fullest"],"answer":"Live life to the fullest."},{"words":["order","write","life","live"],"answer":"In order to write about life, first you must live it!"},{"words":["i","taken","alcohol","alcohol","taken"],"answer":"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."},{"words":["price","greatness","responsibility"],"answer":"The price of greatness is responsibility."},{"words":["important","things","world","accomplished","people","kept","trying","hope"],"answer":"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."},{"words":["empires","future","empires","mind"],"answer":"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."},{"words":["fear","love","love","joy","life"],"answer":"If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?"},{"words":["look","eyes","feeling","driving"],"answer":"Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving."},{"words":["use","saying","doing","best","got","succeed","doing","necessary"],"answer":"It is no use saying, \"We are doing our best.\" You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."},{"words":["world","place","persistence","talent","common","unsuccessful","people","talent","genius","unrewarded","genius","proverb","education","world","educated","derelicts","persistence","determination","omnipotent","slogan","press","solved","solve","problems","human","race"],"answer":"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan \"press on\" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."},{"words":["efficiency","intelligent","laziness"],"answer":"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."},{"words":["learning","finding","know"],"answer":"Learning is finding out what you already know"},{"words":["art","teaching","art","awakening","natural","curiosity","young","minds","purpose","satisfying"],"answer":"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."},{"words":["best","way","escape","problem","solve"],"answer":"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."},{"words":["error","needs","support","government","truth","stand"],"answer":"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."},{"words":["defining","function","artist","cherish","consciousness"],"answer":"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."},{"words":["pretend","careful","pretend"],"answer":"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."},{"words":["globe","seconds","woman","giving","birth","child","stopped"],"answer":"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."},{"words":["problem","problems","problem","expecting","thinking","having","problems","problem"],"answer":"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."},{"words":["remember","right","lost","lost"],"answer":"We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all."},{"words":["man","busy","care","health","like","mechanic","busy","care","tools"],"answer":"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."},{"words":["observation","concerned","chance","favors","prepared","mind"],"answer":"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."},{"words":["marriage","alliance","people","remembers","birthdays","forgets"],"answer":"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."},{"words":["statesman","politician","places","service","nation","politician","statesman","places","nation","service"],"answer":"A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. 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It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."},{"words":["students","achieving","oneness","twoness"],"answer":"Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness."},{"words":["common","sense","common"],"answer":"Common sense is not so common."},{"words":["attempts","communicate","nullified","saying"],"answer":"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."},{"words":["best","way","good","idea","lot","ideas"],"answer":"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."},{"words":["afraid","going","slowly","afraid","standing"],"answer":"Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still."},{"words":["courage","ladder","virtues","mount"],"answer":"Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount."},{"words":["place","success","comes","work","dictionary"],"answer":"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."},{"words":["success","function","consistent","common","sense","genius"],"answer":"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."},{"words":["proportion","expenses","expect"],"answer":"Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect."},{"words":["suppose","idiot","suppose","member","congress","i","repeat"],"answer":"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."},{"words":["thing","funny","search","hidden","truth"],"answer":"When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth."},{"words":["day","time","look","grieve","past","gone","troubled","future","come","live","present","make","beautiful","worth","remembering"],"answer":"One day at a time- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."},{"words":["hold","fast","dreams","dreams","die","life","broken","winged","bird","fly"],"answer":"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."},{"words":["struggle","continue","climb","step","summit"],"answer":"Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit."},{"words":["life","power","choose","want","power","love","want","life","love","honestly","power","walk","forest","nature","power","control","life","power","make","life","happy"],"answer":"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy."},{"words":["successto","able","spend","life","way"],"answer":"There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way."},{"words":["bring","sunshine","lives"],"answer":"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."},{"words":["things","possible","believeth"],"answer":"All things are possible to him that believeth."},{"words":["sure","dishonest","men","local","government","dishonest","men","national","government"],"answer":"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."},{"words":["best","beautiful","things","world","seen","touched","felt","heart"],"answer":"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart."},{"words":["dreamer","lives","eternity"],"answer":"A dreamer lives for eternity."},{"words":["follow","path","lead","instead","path","leave","trail"],"answer":"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."},{"words":["face","sunshine","shadow"],"answer":"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."},{"words":["life","problem","solved","reality","experienced"],"answer":"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."},{"words":["meaning","life","meaning","man","gives","life","unfolding","powers"],"answer":"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers."},{"words":["far","away","sunshine","highest","aspirations","i","reach","i","look","beauty","believe","try","follow","lead"],"answer":"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."},{"words":["sun","search"],"answer":"You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search."},{"words":["save","life","defeat","receive","victory","honor"],"answer":"To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor."},{"words":["tact","ability"],"answer":"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."},{"words":["better","die","live","mechanically","life","repetition","repetitions"],"answer":"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."},{"words":["past","cradle","prison","danger","appeal","glamour","past","inspiration","imitation","continuation","repetition"],"answer":"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition."},{"words":["thinks","inch","talks","yard","deserves","kicked","foot"],"answer":"He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot."},{"words":["effect","upright","individual","incalculable"],"answer":"The effect of one upright individual is incalculable."},{"words":["guard","jealous","attention","public","liberty","suspect","approaches","jewel","unfortunately","preserve","downright","force","force","ruined"],"answer":"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined."},{"words":["people","learn","reason","understand","soon"],"answer":"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."},{"words":["talk","sense","fool","calls","foolish"],"answer":"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."},{"words":["day","pleasant","remember"],"answer":"Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember."},{"words":["great","advantage","rut","rut","knows","exactly"],"answer":"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."},{"words":["happiness","lies","health"],"answer":"Happiness lies, first of all, in health."},{"words":["action","springs","thought","readiness","responsibility"],"answer":"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."},{"words":["atom","practical","purposes","stable","unit","physical","plane","constantly","changing","vortex","reactions"],"answer":"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions."},{"words":["great","open","minds","closed","repairs"],"answer":"A great many open minds should be closed for repairs."},{"words":["moderation","fatal","thing","succeeds","like","excess"],"answer":"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."},{"words":["committeea","group","men","individually","group","decide"],"answer":"Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."},{"words":["urgent","vital","thing","complete","rest"],"answer":"Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest."},{"words":["friend","sees","enjoys","view"],"answer":"A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view."},{"words":["let","negotiate","fear","let","fear","negotiate"],"answer":"Let us never negotiate out of fear. 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We have plenty of messenger boys."},{"words":["million","reasons","failure","single","excuse"],"answer":"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."},{"words":["success","able","spend","life","way"],"answer":"There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way."},{"words":["ridiculous","unrealistic","man","astonished","happens","life"],"answer":"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life."},{"words":["modesty","sure","bait","angle","praise"],"answer":"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."},{"words":["real","questions","ones","obtrude","consciousness","like","ones","make","mind","start","vibrating","like","jackhammer","ones","come","terms","discover","real","questions","refuse","placated","barge","life","times","important","stay","away","questions","asked","frequently","answered","inadequately","ones","reveal","true","natures","slowly","reluctantly"],"answer":"The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you \"come to terms with\" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will."},{"words":["use","walking","preach","unless","walking","preaching"],"answer":"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."},{"words":["author","iliad","homer","homer","somebody"],"answer":"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."},{"words":["i","used","snow","white","","i","drifted"],"answer":"I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted."},{"words":["complain","explain"],"answer":"Never complain. Never explain."},{"words":["chain","neck","slave","end","fastens"],"answer":"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own."},{"words":["accustomed","veneer","noise","shibboleths","promotion","public","relations","market","research","society","suspicious","value","silence"],"answer":"Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence."},{"words":["people","like","nails","lose","effectiveness","lose","direction","begin","bend"],"answer":"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."},{"words":["selfishness","living","wishes","live","asking","live","wishes","live"],"answer":"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."},{"words":["ability","little","account","opportunity"],"answer":"Ability is of little account without opportunity."},{"words":["scientists","claim","hydrogen","plentiful","basic","building","block","universe","i","dispute","i","say","stupidity","hydrogen","basic","building","block","universe"],"answer":"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."},{"words":["someday","day","week"],"answer":"Someday is not a day of the week."},{"words":["world","belongs","enthusiast","keeps","cool"],"answer":"The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool."},{"words":["rarest","things","man","does","best"],"answer":"One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can."},{"words":["people","listen","great","deal","patiently","explain","mistakes","explain","successes"],"answer":"People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes."},{"words":["obtain","easily","esteem","lightly"],"answer":"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."},{"words":["success","occurs","private","failure","public","view"],"answer":"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view."},{"words":["naive","think","problems","plaguing","mankind","today","solved","means","methods","applied","work","past","",""],"answer":"It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . ."},{"words":["man","does","best"],"answer":"If man does his best what else is there?"},{"words":["example","main","thing","influencing","thing"],"answer":"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."},{"words":["brain","wonderful","organ","starts","working","moment","morning","does","stop","office"],"answer":"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."},{"words":["humble","worst","thing","world","stuff","confident","stars","stuff"],"answer":"Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you."},{"words":["stupid","man","doing","ashamed","declares","duty"],"answer":"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."},{"words":["child","adult","realizes","right","right","wrong"],"answer":"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."},{"words":["difference","rut","grave","depth"],"answer":"The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth."},{"words":["hope","heart","man","make","beast","prey"],"answer":"Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey."},{"words":["grow","day","real","laugh",""],"answer":"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself."},{"words":["genius","respectable"],"answer":"Since when was genius found respectable?"},{"words":["cure","boredom","curiosity","cure","curiosity"],"answer":"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."},{"words":["rest","rust"],"answer":"If you rest, you rust."},{"words":["truth","special","time","hour","","truly","unsuitable","actual","circumstances"],"answer":"Truth has not special time of its own. 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The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."},{"words":["true","genius","appears","world","know","sign","dunces","confederacy"],"answer":"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."},{"words":["men","fear","thought","fear","earth","","ruin","","death","thought","subversive","revolutionary","destructive","terrible","thought","merciless","privilege","established","institutions","comfortable","habit","thought","looks","pit","hell","afraid","thought","great","swift","free","light","world","chief","glory","man"],"answer":"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. 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I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. 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Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. 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What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain."},{"words":["finer","command","language","person","keeps","mouth","shut"],"answer":"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."},{"words":["advantages","disorderly","constantly","making","exciting","discoveries"],"answer":"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."},{"words":["shame","knowing","shame","lies","finding"],"answer":"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out."},{"words":["effective","kind","education","child","play","lovely","things"],"answer":"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."},{"words":["world","makes","assumption","exposure","error","identical","discovery","truththat","error","truth","simply","opposite","sort","world","turns","cured","error","usually","simply","error","maybe","worse"],"answer":"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one."},{"words":["chastity","monkish","evangelical","superstition","greater","foe","natural","temperance","unintellectual","sensuality","strikes","root","domestic","happiness","consigns","half","human","race","misery"],"answer":"Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery."},{"words":["tv","chewing","gum","eyes"],"answer":"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."},{"words":["exact","science","dominated","idea","approximation"],"answer":"All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation."},{"words":["old","friends","bitter","enemies","sudden","toys","small","offenses"],"answer":"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses."},{"words":["honorable","retreats","ways","inferior","brave","charges","having","fortune","discipline","valor"],"answer":"Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor."},{"words":["creative","thinking","viewed","essential","supplement","replacement","critical","thinking"],"answer":"Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking."},{"words":["door","closes","door","opens","look","long","regretfully","closed","door","ones","open"],"answer":"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."},{"words":["i","examine","methods","thought","i","come","conclusion","gift","fantasy","meant","talent","abstract","positive","thinking"],"answer":"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."},{"words":["science","refinement","everyday","thinking"],"answer":"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."},{"words":["knew","doing","called","research"],"answer":"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"},{"words":["underneath","flabby","exterior","enormous","lack","character"],"answer":"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."},{"words":["individual","soul","given"],"answer":"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."},{"words":["important","thing","stop","questioning","curiosity","reason","existing","help","awe","contemplates","mysteries","eternity","life","marvelous","structure","reality","tries","merely","comprehend","little","mystery","day","lose","holy","curiosity"],"answer":"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."},{"words":["regard","study","duty","enviable","opportunity","learn","know","liberating","influence","beauty","realm","spirit","personal","joy","profit","community","later","work","belongs"],"answer":"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."},{"words":["human","called","universe","limited","time","space","experiences","thoughts","feelings","separated","resta","kind","optical","delusion","consciousness","delusion","kind","prison","restricting","personal","desires","affection","persons","nearest","task","free","prison","widening","circles","compassion","embrace","living","creatures","nature","beauty"],"answer":"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."},{"words":["point","develop","childlike","inclination","play","childlike","desire","recognition","guide","child","important","fields","society","school","demands","teacher","kind","artist","province"],"answer":"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."},{"words":["guard","preaching","young","people","success","customary","form","main","aim","life","important","motive","work","school","life","pleasure","work","pleasure","result","knowledge","value","result","community"],"answer":"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."},{"words":["weakness","attitude","weakness","character"],"answer":"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."},{"words":["ideals","shone","filled","joy","living","goodness","beauty","truth","make","goal","comfort","happiness","appealed","ethics","built","basis","sufficient","herd","cattle"],"answer":"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."},{"words":["object","education","prepare","young","educate","lives"],"answer":"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."},{"words":["secret","education","lies","respecting","pupil"],"answer":"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."},{"words":["vote","early","vote"],"answer":"Vote early and vote often."},{"words":["i","respect","faith","doubt","gets","education"],"answer":"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."},{"words":["aim","education","teach","think","thinkrather","improve","minds","enable","think","load","memory","thoughts","men"],"answer":"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."},{"words":["progress","nation","swifter","progress","education","human","mind","fundamental","resource"],"answer":"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."},{"words":["real","object","education","man","condition","continually","asking","questions"],"answer":"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions."},{"words":["good","good","doing","good","sure","means","good","use","exercise","muscles","increase","power"],"answer":"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power."},{"words":["deeds","determine","determine","deeds"],"answer":"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."},{"words":["simple","religion","need","temples","need","complicated","philosophy","brain","heart","temple","philosophy","kindness"],"answer":"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."},{"words":["individual","struggle","overwhelmed","tribe","try","lonely","frightened","price","high","pay","privilege","owning"],"answer":"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."},{"words":["want","power","world"],"answer":"Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself."},{"words":["war","matter","entrusted","military"],"answer":"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."},{"words":["long","believes","ideal","purpose","outside","clouds","past","future","outside","seek","fulfillment","look","solutions","answers","point","foundin"],"answer":"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself."},{"words":["say","little","words","great","deal"],"answer":"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."},{"words":["fame","comes","deserved","inevitable","destiny","destiny"],"answer":"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."},{"words":["better","deserve","honors","deserve"],"answer":"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."},{"words":["majority","time","reform"],"answer":"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."},{"words":["instant","effort","build","new","lives","creativity","means","push","open","heavy","groaning","doorway","life","easy","struggle","difficult","task","world","opening","door","life","end","difficult","opening","doors","mysteries","universe"],"answer":"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe."},{"words":["perception","strong","sight","weak","strategy","important","distant","things","close","distanced","view","close","things"],"answer":"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."},{"words":["regret","life","i"],"answer":"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."},{"words":["water","taken","moderation","hurt","anybody"],"answer":"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."},{"words":["person","waiting","turn","start","shirt","sleeves"],"answer":"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves."},{"words":["said","listens","going","beginning"],"answer":"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."},{"words":["slide","rare","moments","military","honesty","realize","technical","demands","modern","warfare","complex","considerable","percentage","material","bound","malfunction","deployed","foe","longer","waste","manpower","carrying","flag","battle","instead","need","battalions","electronic","engineers","terrible","machinery","grinding"],"answer":"If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding."},{"words":["beauty","form","geniusis","higher","genius","needs","explanation","great","facts","world","like","sunlight","springtime","reflection","dark","water","silver","shell","moon"],"answer":"Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."},{"words":["universe","magical","things","patiently","waiting","wits","grow","sharper"],"answer":"The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."},{"words":["reason","free","inquiry","effectual","agents","error"],"answer":"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."},{"words":["need","courage","course","decide","tell","wrong","difficulties","arising","tempt","believe","critics","right","map","course","action","follow","end","requires","courage","soldier","needs","peace","victories","takes","brave","men","women","win"],"answer":"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."},{"words":["beware","enterprises","require","new","clothes"],"answer":"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."},{"words":["spirit","win","excel","things","endure","qualities","important","events","occur"],"answer":"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."},{"words":["trouble","lacks","power","conversation","power","speech"],"answer":"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."},{"words":["world","endless","pain","sailing","eastward","forever","reach","new","distances","discover","sights","sweet","strange","cyclades","islands","king","solomon","promise","voyage"],"answer":"Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage."},{"words":["world","breaks","afterward","strong","broken","places"],"answer":"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."},{"words":["near","enemy","make","believe","far","himbr","far","enemy","make","believe","near"],"answer":"If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him.<br> If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."},{"words":["curiosity","permanent","certain","characteristics","vigorous","mind"],"answer":"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."},{"words":["firmness","purpose","necessary","sinews","character","best","instruments","success","genius","wastes","efforts","maze","inconsistencies"],"answer":"Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies."},{"words":["vitality","shows","ability","persist","ability","start"],"answer":"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."},{"words":["end","wisdom","dream","high","lose","dream","seeking"],"answer":"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."},{"words":["success","following","pattern","life","enjoys"],"answer":"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."},{"words":["frank","expression","conflicting","opinions","lies","greatest","promise","wisdom","governmental","action"],"answer":"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."},{"words":["eternally","vigilant","attempts","check","expression","opinions","loathe"],"answer":"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."},{"words":["freedom","opinion","exist","government","thinks","secure"],"answer":"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."},{"words":["generous","mind","heaviest","debt","gratitude","power","repay"],"answer":"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."},{"words":["truer","measure","man","does","gives"],"answer":"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."},{"words":["thinks","changing","world","thinks","changing"],"answer":"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."},{"words":["seldom","attribute","common","sense","agree"],"answer":"We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us."},{"words":["supreme","end","education","expert","discernment","thingsthe","power","tell","good","bad","genuine","counterfeit","prefer","good","genuine","bad","counterfeit"],"answer":"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."},{"words":["disclose","alms","secret","poor","better","wipes","evil","deeds"],"answer":"If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds."},{"words":["science","cure","evils","remedy","worst","allthe","apathy","human","beings"],"answer":"Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings."},{"words":["religion","masterpiece","art","animal","training","trains","people","shall","think"],"answer":"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."},{"words":["religion","candle","inside","multicolored","lantern","looks","particular","color","candle"],"answer":"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there."},{"words":["better","suffer","wrong","happier","cheated","trust"],"answer":"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."},{"words":["future","belongs","prepare","today"],"answer":"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."},{"words":["cheered","praisebr","grieved","blamebr","know","thoroughly","ones","virtues","powersbr","characteristics","excellent","man"],"answer":"Not to be cheered by praise,<br> Not to be grieved by blame,<br> But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers<br> Are the characteristics of an excellent man."},{"words":["soul","dare"],"answer":"The will to do, the soul to dare."},{"words":["i","hear","arguing","slavery","i","feel","strong","impulse","tried","personally"],"answer":"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."},{"words":["ingredients","good","life","learning","earning","yearning"],"answer":"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning."},{"words":["courage","imagine","greatest","resource","adding","color","suspense","life"],"answer":"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."},{"words":["attitude","silence","soul","finds","path","clearer","light","elusive","deceptive","resolves","crystal","clearness","life","long","arduous","quest","truth"],"answer":"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."},{"words":["adaptability","imitation","means","power","resistance","assimilation"],"answer":"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."},{"words":["quality","work","god","quantity"],"answer":"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."},{"words":["honest","differences","healthy","sign","progress"],"answer":"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."},{"words":["illiterate","future","person","read","person","does","know","learn"],"answer":"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."},{"words":["use","quantitative","data","distrust","use","intelligence","judgment"],"answer":"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."},{"words":["principal","means","acquiring","knowledge","","","observation","nature","reflection","experimentation","observation","collects","facts","reflection","combines","experimentation","verifies","result","combination"],"answer":"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."},{"words":["women","seek","equal","men","lack","ambition"],"answer":"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."},{"words":["observation","nature","diligent","reflection","profound","experiments","exact","rarely","means","combined","reason","creative","geniuses","common"],"answer":"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."},{"words":["genius","present","age","men","carrying","remain","benumbed","unless","extraordinary","events","occur","heat","melt","mass","flows","forth"],"answer":"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."},{"words":["changes","constantly","past","past","influences","lives","does","consist","happened","men","believe","happened"],"answer":"Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened."},{"words":["necessity","proclivity","delight","quote","fact","difficult","appropriate","thoughts","invent"],"answer":"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."},{"words":["best","helping","hand","receive","end","arm"],"answer":"The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm."},{"words":["tree","liberty","refreshed","time","time","blood","patriots","tyrants"],"answer":"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."},{"words":["rich","poor","refuse"],"answer":"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."},{"words":["timing","life","warrior","thriving","declining","harmony","discord","similarly","timing","way","merchant","rise","fall","capital","things","entail","rising","falling","timing","able","discern"],"answer":"There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this."},{"words":["necessity","good","bargain"],"answer":"Necessity never made a good bargain."},{"words":["liberty","possibility","doubting","possibility","making","mistake","possibility","searching","experimenting","possibility","saying","authorityliterary","artistic","philosophic","religious","social","political"],"answer":"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."},{"words":["impossible","design","perfect","needs","good"],"answer":"It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good."},{"words":["views","feelings","favor","abolition","warand","i","hope","practicable","improving","mind","morals","society","lessen","disposition","war","abolition","i","despair"],"answer":"My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair."},{"words":["mutual","trust","mutual","holds","human","associations","friends","seldom","profit","make","feel","safe","marriage","scheme","accomplish","exactly","end"],"answer":"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."},{"words":["common","mistake","people","make","trying","design","completely","foolproof","underestimate","ingenuity","complete","fools"],"answer":"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."},{"words":["i","secret","making","best","personsbr","grow","open","air","eat","sleep","earth"],"answer":"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.<br> It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."},{"words":["5050","allegiance","country","man","american","american"],"answer":"We can have no \"50-50\" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."},{"words":["nature","trying","hard","make","succeed","nature","does","depend","experiment"],"answer":"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."},{"words":["win","war","win","earthquake"],"answer":"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."},{"words":["coming","understand","arts","incarnate","creativity","free","people","creative","impulse","flourish","freely","select","methods","objects","deprived","spontaneity","society","severs","root","art"],"answer":"Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art."},{"words":["freedom","speech","freedom","action","meaningless","freedom","think","freedom","thought","doubt"],"answer":"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."},{"words":["mind","thousand","eyesbr","heart","onebr","life","life","diesbr","love"],"answer":"The mind has a thousand eyes.<br> And the heart but one;<br> Yet the life of a whole life dies<br> When love is done."},{"words":["success","key","happiness","happiness","key","success","love","doing","successful"],"answer":"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."},{"words":["science","search","truth","","game","tries","beat","opponent","harm","need","spirit","science","international","affairs","make","conduct","international","affairs","effort","t","right","solution","just","solution","international","problems","effort","nation","better","nations","harm","possible"],"answer":"Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible."},{"words":["hope","like","faith","courageous","ridiculous"],"answer":"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."},{"words":["mind","long","act","role","heart"],"answer":"The mind cannot long act the role of the heart."},{"words":["honestly","ask","person","lives","mean","instead","giving","advice","solutions","cures","chosen","share","pain","touch","wounds","warm","tender","hand","friend","silent","moment","despair","confusion","stay","hour","grief","bereavement","tolerate","knowing","curing","healing","face","reality","powerlessness","friend","cares"],"answer":"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."},{"words":["deny","love","given","refuse","love","fear","pain","loss","lives","loss","greater"],"answer":"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."},{"words":["shaped","thoughts","think","mind","pure","joy","follows","like","shadow","leaves"],"answer":"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."},{"words":["ye","lamps","unto","refuge","hold","fast","truth","lamp","hold","fast","truth","refuge","look","refuge","shall","lamp","unto","shall","betake","external","refuge","holding","fast","truth","lamp","holding","fast","truth","refuge","shall","reach","topmost","height"],"answer":"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height."},{"words":["moment","want","believe","suddenly","arguments","blind","arguments"],"answer":"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."},{"words":["worst","enemies","ignorant","simple","cruel","worst","enemies","intelligent","corrupt"],"answer":"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."},{"words":["deeds","follow","makes"],"answer":"Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are."},{"words":["prejudice","child","ignorance"],"answer":"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."},{"words":["time","drastic","change","learners","inherit","future","learned","usually","equipped","live","world","longer","exists"],"answer":"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. 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The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security."},{"words":["deny","modern","advertising","essentially","dishonest","maintained","lie","freely","time","private","profit","abuse","right","free","speech","violation","law","practical","question","lying","private","profit","permitted","law"],"answer":"No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. 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No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday."},{"words":["counseled","helped","hear","reason","rap","knuckles"],"answer":"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."},{"words":["man","foolish","good","counsel","man","wise","easily","err","takes","counsel","taught","fool","master"],"answer":"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."},{"words":["mode","asking","giving","advice","asks","deference","opinion","friend","aims","approval","make","friend","responsible","action","gives","advice","repays","confidence","supposed","placed","seemingly","disinterested","zeal","seldom","means","advice","reputation"],"answer":"Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation."},{"words":["aim","morality","simply","good","good"],"answer":"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."},{"words":["cool","judgment","worth","thousand","hasty","councils","thing","supply","light","heat"],"answer":"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. 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Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities."},{"words":["write","simply","difficult","good"],"answer":"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."},{"words":["learning","draw","really","matter","learning","","correctly","","means","good","deal","merely","looking","eye"],"answer":"Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye."},{"words":["child","artist","problem","remain","artist","grows"],"answer":"Every child is an artist. 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Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. 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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."},{"words":["fig","newton","force","required","accelerate","fig","3937","inches","sec"],"answer":"Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec."},{"words":["books","read","chosen","great","care","egyptian","king","wrote","library","medicines","soul"],"answer":"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, \"The medicines of the soul.\""},{"words":["literature","utopia","i","disenfranchised","barrier","senses","shuts","sweet","gracious","discourses","book","friends","talk","embarrassment","awkwardness"],"answer":"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."},{"words":["pleasure","reading","doubled","lives","shares","books"],"answer":"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."},{"words":["good","book","precious","lifeblood","master","spirit","embalmed","treasured","purpose","life"],"answer":"A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond."},{"words":["books","help","make","think","hardest","way","learning","easy","reading","great","book","comes","great","thinker","ship","thought","deep","freighted","truth","beauty"],"answer":"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."},{"words":["books","collective","education","race","depends","sole","instruments","registering","perpetuating","transmitting","thought"],"answer":"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."},{"words":["books","like","proverbs","receive","chief","value","stamp","esteem","ages","passed"],"answer":"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed"},{"words":["far","better","silent","merely","increase","quantity","bad","books"],"answer":"It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books."},{"words":["man","ceased","ape","vanquished","ape","day","book","written"],"answer":"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."},{"words":["writing","necessarily","ashamed","private","wash","hands"],"answer":"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."},{"words":["society","polished","horde","","formed","mighty","tribes","bores","bored"],"answer":"Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."},{"words":["prayer","say","father","acknowledges","feel","brotherhood","race","mankind"],"answer":"Whoever in prayer can say, \"Our Father,\" acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind."},{"words":["service","render","really","rent","pay","room","earth","obvious","man","traveler","purpose","world","hold","serve","meaning"],"answer":"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not \"to have and to hold\" but \"to give and serve.\" There can be no other meaning."},{"words":["earth","truly","small","blue","eternal","silence","floats","riders","earth","brothers","bright","loveliness","eternal","cold","","brothers","know","truly","brothers"],"answer":"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers."},{"words":["i","believe","really","want","human","brotherhood","spread","increase","makes","life","safe","sane","certain","true","faith","path","spread"],"answer":"I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread"},{"words":["work","internal","government","task","controlling","thousands","fifthrate","men"],"answer":"The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men"},{"words":["lick","gravity","paperwork","overwhelming"],"answer":"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."},{"words":["life","piece","men","err","think","inhuman","exploiters","business","life","loving","husbands","fathers","home","achievement","love","cold","tightlipped","murderer","human","happiness"],"answer":"Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere."},{"words":["i","recognized","object","business","make","money","honorable","manner","i","endeavored","remember","object","life","good"],"answer":"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good."},{"words":["i","just","need","tide","i","need"],"answer":"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more."},{"words":["tenth","business","doing","merely","followed","principles","known","grandfathers"],"answer":"Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers."},{"words":["half","time","men","think","talking","business","wasting","time"],"answer":"Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time."},{"words":["business","selling","services","labor","ideas","realizes","true","conscious","charge","life","looking","outside","guidance"],"answer":"Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance."},{"words":["business","strategy","distinguishes","kinds","business","planning","","word","competitive","advantage","competitors","need","strategy","sole","purpose","strategic","planning","enable","company","gain","effectively","possible","sustainable","edge","competitors"],"answer":"What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors"},{"words":["keeping","little","ahead","conditions","secrets","business"],"answer":"Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business"},{"words":["little","years","spend","earth","scene","divine","drama","extends","eternity"],"answer":"The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity."},{"words":["cure","birth","death","save","enjoy","interval"],"answer":"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."},{"words":["better","live","richly","die","rich"],"answer":"It is better to live richly than to die rich."},{"words":["hidden","alphabetical","order"],"answer":"There it was, hidden in alphabetical order."},{"words":["things","worse","defeatand","compromise","evil"],"answer":"Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them."},{"words":["essential","success","desire","allobsessing","thoughts","aims","coordinated","energy","concentrated","applied","letup"],"answer":"One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup."},{"words":["solve","thing","greatly"],"answer":"It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it."},{"words":["opposing","set","desires","kind","fore","category","strong","desires","set","operation","process","competition","emerge","victor","set","defeated"],"answer":"Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated."},{"words":["capricious","nature","implanting","desire","indicates","gratification","constitution","creature","feel"],"answer":"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."},{"words":["significance","man","attains","longs","attain"],"answer":"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain."},{"words":["man","passions","principle","action","motive","act"],"answer":"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."},{"words":["desire","creates","power"],"answer":"Desire creates the power."},{"words":["mind","works","possibilities","intuitions","work","actualities","intuitively","desire","possible","mentally","consciously","desire","times","impossible","hitch","wagon","star","just","stay"],"answer":"For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or \"consciously\" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are."},{"words":["case","respects","entirely","devoid"],"answer":"The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest."},{"words":["good","judgement","comes","experience","experience","comes","bad","judgement"],"answer":"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."},{"words":["desires","pulses","soul","physicians","judge","appetite","desires"],"answer":"Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires."},{"words":["i","taught","attainable","prepared","sacrifice","want","want","badly","i","believe","i","believe","i","wanted","run","mile","minutes","i","i","life","i","run","mile","minutes","i","believe","man","wanted","walk","water","prepared","life"],"answer":"I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that"},{"words":["wild","incredible","desire","willing","prompt","god","fulfilling"],"answer":"The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so."},{"words":["way","old","true","saying","resolves","doing","thing","resolution","scales","barriers","secures","achievement","think","able","","determine","attainment","frequently","attainment"],"answer":"\"Where there is a will there is a way,\" is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself."},{"words":["desire","security","keeps","littleness","little","threatens","great","smallness"],"answer":"Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness."},{"words":["matter","come","perils","safely","passed","imperfect","jagged","","places","irreparably","","life","heart","hearts","imagine","different","look","slips","orderly","array","mistakes","acquires","sort","eternal","fitness","times","poetic","glamour"],"answer":"No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour."},{"words":["destiny","phrase","weak","human","heart","","dark","apology","error","strong","virtuous","admit","destiny","earth","conscience","guides","heaven","god","watches","destiny","phantom","invoke","silence","dethrone"],"answer":"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."},{"words":["thoughts","lead","purposes","purposes","forth","action","actions","form","habits","habits","decide","character","character","fixes","destiny"],"answer":"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."},{"words":["fools","positive"],"answer":"Only fools are positive."},{"words":["strict","belief","fate","worst","kind","slavery","hand","comfort","thought","god","moved","prayers"],"answer":"A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers."},{"words":["men","heap","mistakes","lives","create","monster","destiny"],"answer":"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny."},{"words":["problems","manmade","solved","man","problem","human","destiny","human","beings"],"answer":"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."},{"words":["nature","work","character","destiny","handiwork","gives","love","hate","jealousy","reverence","power","choose","impulse","shall","follow"],"answer":"Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."},{"words":["catch","entertaining","habitually","certain","ideas","setting","aside","i","think","personal","destinies","largely","decided"],"answer":"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."},{"words":["human","affairs","efforts","results","strength","effort","measure","results"],"answer":"In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results."},{"words":["fundamental","qualities","good","execution","plan","intelligence","discernment","judgment","enable","recognize","best","method","attain","singleness","purpose","lastly","essential","willstubborn"],"answer":"The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will."},{"words":["determined","remains","act"],"answer":"To him who is determined it remains only to act."},{"words":["bear","mind","going","success","does","depend","brilliancy","impetuosity","hold","lasting","sanctified","bulldoggedness","hang","taken","hold"],"answer":"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."},{"words":["true","dignity","gained","place","lost","honors","withdrawn"],"answer":"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn"},{"words":["oft","expectation","fails","oft","promises","oft","hits","hope","coldest","despair","sits"],"answer":"Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits."},{"words":["succeed","world","necessary","possess","penetration","discern","fool","discover","clever","man"],"answer":"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."},{"words":["human","situations","inconveniences","feel","present","feel","future","make","troublesome","changes","amendment","frequently","worse"],"answer":"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."},{"words":["love","lack"],"answer":"We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are."},{"words":["rift","discovery","anomaly","drops","darkness","falls","golden","link","great","chain","order"],"answer":"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order."},{"words":["shining","qualities","mind","man","useful","discretion","gives","value","rest","sets","work","proper","places","turns","advantage","possessor","learning","pedantry","wit","impertinence","virtue","looks","like","weakness","best","parts","qualify","man","sprightly","errors","active","prejudice","man","perfections","wants","discretion","great","consequence","world","single","talent","perfection","common","share","pleases","station","life"],"answer":"There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life."},{"words":["free","fair","discussion","firmest","friend","truth"],"answer":"Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth."},{"words":["pain","dispute","exceeds","utility","disputation","makes","mind","deaf","people","deaf","i","dumb"],"answer":"The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb."},{"words":["open","conviction","qualified","discussion"],"answer":"He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion."},{"words":["disease","mind","body","half","dead","understand","disorder","half","cured"],"answer":"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."},{"words":["doubt","vestibule","pass","enter","temple","wisdom","doubt","puzzle","truth","exertions","gained","stay","serve","avoid","trouble","search","avail","superior","information","friend","knowledge","remain","bought","borrowed"],"answer":"Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it."},{"words":["know","accurately","know","little","knowledge","doubt","increases"],"answer":"We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases."},{"words":["knowledge","personality","make","doubt","possible","knowledge","cure","doubt","adequate","sense","personality","lifted","region","doubt","impossible","man","know","fullness","nature","knowing","god"],"answer":"Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God."},{"words":["doubts","traitors","make","lose","good","oft","win","fearing","attempt"],"answer":"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."},{"words":["vain","man","generally","doubter","newton","sees","child","sea","shore","discoveries","colored","shell"],"answer":"The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell."},{"words":["believe","read","better","read"],"answer":"If you believe everything you read, better not read."},{"words":["i","heard","said","ingredient","success","","earliest","spark","dreaming","youth","","dream","great","dream"],"answer":"I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream."},{"words":["vision","","reaches","thing","conception","imagination","gives","picture","vision","gives","impulse","make","picture"],"answer":"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."},{"words":["cease","dream","cease","live"],"answer":"When you cease to dream you cease to live."},{"words":["lift","thought","climb","vision","want","enlarge","life","enlarge","thought","hold","ideal","long","","ideal","long","attain","","ideal","health","efficiency","success"],"answer":"We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success."},{"words":["accomplish","great","things","dream","visualize","plan","believe","act"],"answer":"To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!"},{"words":["big","thinking","precedes","great","achievement"],"answer":"Big thinking precedes great achievement."},{"words":["got","dream","going","make","dream","come","true"],"answer":"We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."},{"words":["house","walls","beams","home","built","love","dreams"],"answer":"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."},{"words":["earnest","persistent","determined","living","superior","herdinstinct"],"answer":"We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct."},{"words":["duty","lieth","nearest","thee","thy","second","duty","clearer"],"answer":"Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer."},{"words":["god","angel","help","willing","duty"],"answer":"God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty."},{"words":["man","woman","choose","duties","choose","birthplace","father","mother"],"answer":"Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother."},{"words":["man","born","solve","problem","universe","restrain","limits","comprehension"],"answer":"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."},{"words":["let","forever","forget","station","life","necessarily","deserves","respect","station","worthy","fulfillment","duties","does","honor","man"],"answer":"Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man."},{"words":["worst","errors","suppose","path","safety","duty"],"answer":"It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty."},{"words":["escapes","duty","avoids","gain"],"answer":"Who escapes duty, avoids a gain."},{"words":["daybreak","habits","contribute","health","wealth","wisdom"],"answer":"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."},{"words":["early","morning","hath","gold","mouth"],"answer":"Early morning hath gold in its mouth."},{"words":["live","old","age","fewer","distinguished","habit","early","rising"],"answer":"Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising."},{"words":["men","trust","god","god","did","labor","earnestly","did"],"answer":"Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all."},{"words":["impress","earnest","amuse","necessary","kindly","fanciful"],"answer":"To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful."},{"words":["primary","purpose","education","teach","earn","bread","make","mouthful","sweeter"],"answer":"The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter."},{"words":["threshold","knowing","range","educatability","man","","perfectibility","man","addressed","problem"],"answer":"We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before."},{"words":["best","current","evidence","media","mere","vehicles","deliver","instruction","influence","student","achievement","truck","delivers","groceries","causes","change","nutrition"],"answer":"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition."},{"words":["experience","marvelous","thing","enables","recognize","mistake","make"],"answer":"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."},{"words":["american","habit","foundations","educational","structure","unsatisfactory","add","story","wing","easier","add","new","study","course","kind","school","recognize","existing","conditions","meet","need"],"answer":"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need."},{"words":["fact","short","miracle","modern","methods","instruction","entirely","strangled","holy","curious","inquiry","grave","mistake","think","enjoyment","seeing","searching","promoted","means","coercion","sense","duty"],"answer":"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."},{"words":["students","words","shut","schools","colleges","recitation","rooms","years","come","bag","wind","memory","words","know","thing"],"answer":"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing"},{"words":["chief","reason","going","school","impression","fixed","life","book"],"answer":"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."},{"words":["i","entirely","certain","years","look","education","practiced","schools","today","wonder","tolerated","primitive"],"answer":"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."},{"words":["use","shout","pay","attention","situations","materials","problems","child","attention","slip","does","exhortation","threats","bring"],"answer":"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back."},{"words":["education","reform","students","amuse","make","expert","technicians","unsettle","minds","widen","horizons","inflame","intellects","teach","think","straight","possible"],"answer":"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."},{"words":["i","wonder","i","education","i","fool","i"],"answer":"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."},{"words":["teach","daugthers","diameters","planets","wonder","delight","company"],"answer":"You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company."},{"words":["i","believe","looking","reality","straight","eye","denying"],"answer":"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."},{"words":["let","think","education","means","developing","greatest","abilities","private","hope","dream","fulfilled","translated","benefit","greater","strength","nation"],"answer":"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."},{"words":["subject","education","presuming","dictate","plan","respecting","i","say","i","view","important","subject","people","engaged","receive","moderate","education","appears","objective","vital","importance"],"answer":"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance."},{"words":["wise","education","teach","little","man","knows","learn"],"answer":"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."},{"words":["jails","prisons","complement","schools"],"answer":"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."},{"words":["education","merely","means","earning","living","instrument","acquisition","wealth","initiation","life","spirit","training","human","soul","pursuit","truth","practice","virtue"],"answer":"Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. \"It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue."},{"words":["modern","education","seldom","inspired","great","hope","seldom","achieves","great","results","wish","preserve","past","hope","creating","future","dominates","minds","control","teaching","young"],"answer":"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young."},{"words":["education","culture","substitution","reading","experience","literature","life","obsolete","fictitious","contemporary","real"],"answer":"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."},{"words":["politicians","promise","build","bridge","river"],"answer":"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."},{"words":["education","private","matter","person","world","knowledge","experience","little","school","college"],"answer":"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."},{"words":["learn","inference","deduction","application","mathematics","philosophy","direct","intercourse","sympathy"],"answer":"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."},{"words":["human","history","race","education","catastrophe"],"answer":"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."},{"words":["intelligence","appears","thing","enables","man","education","education","enables","man","use","intelligence"],"answer":"Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. 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At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."},{"words":["emotions","taught","mankind","reason"],"answer":"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."},{"words":["things","world","powerful","positive","push","smile","word","optimism","hope","things","tough"],"answer":"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A \"you can do it\" when things are tough."},{"words":["good","leadership","consists","showing","average","people","work","superior","people"],"answer":"Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."},{"words":["create","kind","climate","organization","personal","growth","expected","recognized","rewarded"],"answer":"Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded."},{"words":["catch","people","doing","right","let","know","appreciate"],"answer":"Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it."},{"words":["better","encouragement","good","friend"],"answer":"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."},{"words":["good","advice","man","gives","old","set","bad","example"],"answer":"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."},{"words":["man","enthusiasm","30","minutes","30","days","man","30","years","makes","success","life"],"answer":"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."},{"words":["great","commanding","moment","annals","world","triumph","enthusiasm"],"answer":"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm."},{"words":["world","belongs","enthusiast","keeps","cool"],"answer":"The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool."},{"words":["virtue","safe","enthusiastic"],"answer":"No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic."},{"words":["enthusiasm","kindling","spark","marks","difference","leaders","activity","laggards","just"],"answer":"Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to \"get by.\""},{"words":["enthusiasm","good","lubrication","mind"],"answer":"Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind."},{"words":["man","like","company","wont"],"answer":"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep."},{"words":["experience","life","come","contact","life","chisel","cutting","away","life","statue","molding","modifying","shaping","met","seen","heard","felt","thought","hand","molding","shaping"],"answer":"Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. 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And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves."},{"words":["truest","mark","born","great","qualities","born","envy"],"answer":"The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy."},{"words":["did","know","little","enjoy","great","things","possess","envy","world"],"answer":"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world."},{"words":["roads","hate","envy","shortest"],"answer":"There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all."},{"words":["saying","men","born","free","equal","mean","equally","born","true","true","sense","birth","talent","labor","virtue","providence","forever","making","differences"],"answer":"If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences."},{"words":["job","selfportrait","person","did","autograph","work","excellence"],"answer":"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."},{"words":["good","work","lost","lack","little"],"answer":"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."},{"words":["anybody","accepts","mediocrity","","school","job","life","","person","compromises","leader","compromises","organization","compromises"],"answer":"Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises."},{"words":["aging","process","firmly","grasp","urge","throw","snowball"],"answer":"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."},{"words":["funny","life","refuse","accept","best"],"answer":"It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it."},{"words":["successful","employers","stalking","men","unusual","men","think","men","attract","attention","performing","expected"],"answer":"All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them."},{"words":["excellence","best","described","doing","right","things","right","","selecting","important","things","accomplishing","100","correctly"],"answer":"Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly."},{"words":["life","largely","matter","expectation"],"answer":"Life is largely a matter of expectation."},{"words":["advance","journey","face","goal","confident","believe","going","win"],"answer":"We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out."},{"words":["paint","mind","picture","bright","happy","expectations","condition","conducive","goal"],"answer":"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."},{"words":["think","feel","achieve","aim","life","need","project","endresult","think","elation","satisfaction","joy","carrying","ecstatic","feeling","bring","desired","goal","view"],"answer":"Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view."},{"words":["experience","learning","better","learning","experience"],"answer":"Experience without learning is better than learning without experience."},{"words":["succeeds","like","appearance","success"],"answer":"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."},{"words":["theories","insubstantial","experience","tangible"],"answer":"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."},{"words":["entered","experience","lost"],"answer":"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."},{"words":["knowledge","amassed","thought","experience","innumerable","minds"],"answer":"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."},{"words":["experience","recorded","experience","history","men","learn","passions","metaphysical","prejudices","allow","learn"],"answer":"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."},{"words":["aware","internal","subjective","subverbal","experiences","experiences","brought","world","abstraction","conversation","naming","consequence","immediately","possible","certain","control","exerted","hither","unconscious","uncontrollable","processes"],"answer":"Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes"},{"words":["experience","desire","experience","does","come","study","having","experience"],"answer":"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. 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What did he get out of them."},{"words":["failure","comes","forget","ideals","objectives","principles"],"answer":"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."},{"words":["make","mistakes","power","man","errors","mistakes","wise","good","learn","wisdom","future"],"answer":"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."},{"words":["persons","frequently","wrong","admit","wrong"],"answer":"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."},{"words":["people","willing","failure","second","opportunity","fail","bitter","pill","failure","people","handle","willing","accept","failure","learn","willing","consider","failure","blessing","disguise","bounce","got","essential","harnessing","powerful","success","forces"],"answer":"Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces."},{"words":["i","formula","success","i","formula","failure","","try","everybody"],"answer":"I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody."},{"words":["man","makes","mistake","man","makes","capacity","occasional","blundering","inseparable","capacity","bring","things","pass","men","past","danger","making","mistakes","men","sleep","greenwood"],"answer":"Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood."},{"words":["order","realist","believe","miracles"],"answer":"In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."},{"words":["star","blade","grass","god","visible","open","minds","eyes"],"answer":"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."},{"words":["deceived","trust","live","torment","trust"],"answer":"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."},{"words":["science","said","opposed","faith","inconsistent","science","fact","rests","basis","faith","assumes","permanence","uniformity","natural","laws","","thing","demonstrated"],"answer":"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated"},{"words":["faith","men","holds","moral","elements","society","faith","god","binds","world","throne"],"answer":"It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne"},{"words":["loses","money","losses","loses","friend","loses","loses","faith","loses"],"answer":"He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all."},{"words":["great","act","faith","man","decides","god"],"answer":"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."},{"words":["question","boldness","existence","god","approve","homage","reason","blindfolded","faith"],"answer":"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith."},{"words":["lie","told","truth"],"answer":"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."},{"words":["thing","incredible","life","sunilluminated","universe","green","earth","feet"],"answer":"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?"},{"words":["twice","armed","fight","faith"],"answer":"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."},{"words":["actual","life","great","enterprise","begins","takes","forward","step","faith"],"answer":"In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith."},{"words":["right","man","able","render","reason","faith"],"answer":"It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him."},{"words":["infinite","faith","let","leak"],"answer":"We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not."},{"words":["talk","unbelief","unbelief","talk","faith","faith","according","seed","sown","harvest"],"answer":"Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest."},{"words":["tomorrow","handles","hold","handle","anxiety","handle","faith"],"answer":"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith."},{"words":["fame","","words","tombstone","truth","depended"],"answer":"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."},{"words":["man","knows","law","live","pine","shanty","resort","man","pipe","sing","wrap","imprisoned","soul","elysium","paint","landscape","convey","souls","ochres","enchantments","spring","autumn","liberate","intoxicate","people","hear","delicious","songs","verses","certain","secret","kept","witness","tells","second","men","fives","tens","fifties","doors"],"answer":"If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors."},{"words":["happen","things","brought","free","gift","mankind","deserved","granted","unwillingly","bestowed"],"answer":"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."},{"words":["possessions","life","fame","noblest","body","sunk","dust","great","lives"],"answer":"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives."},{"words":["fame","advantage","known","people","know","care","little"],"answer":"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little"},{"words":["woman","salvation","destruction","family","carries","destiny","folds","mantle"],"answer":"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."},{"words":["lack","emotional","security","american","young","people","i","believe","isolation","larger","family","unit","people","","mere","father","mother","","i","said","provide","emotional","security","child","needs","feel","world","kinfolk","persons","variety","age","temperament","allied","indissoluble","bond","break","nature","welded","born"],"answer":"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born."},{"words":["possible","teach","teach","family"],"answer":"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."},{"words":["family","nucleus","civilization"],"answer":"The family is the nucleus of civilization."},{"words":["best","bound","love","family","remains","measure","stability","measures","sense","loyalty","pacts","love","fear","derive","modeled"],"answer":"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it."},{"words":["dispute","parent","child","right","usually","wrong","situation","gives","family","life","peculiar","hysterical","charm"],"answer":"In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm."},{"words":["i","respect","idea","god","make","responsible","absurd","world"],"answer":"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."},{"words":["i","humble","talents","require"],"answer":"I am no more humble than my talents require."},{"words":["busy","children","time","deserve","lavish","gifts","precious","gift","personal","association","means","grudgingly"],"answer":"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."},{"words":["fear","secretes","acids","love","trust","sweet","juices"],"answer":"Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices."},{"words":["inaction","breeds","doubt","fear","action","breeds","confidence","courage","want","conquer","fear","sit","home","think","busy"],"answer":"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."},{"words":["men","talk","important","things","perfect","strangers","perfect","stranger","perceive","man","image","god","disguised","resemblances","uncle","doubts","wisdom","mustache"],"answer":"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."},{"words":["thing","fear","death","fear","certain"],"answer":"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."},{"words":["natural","fear","ends","way","arrive","given","means","hang","forget","ends"],"answer":"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."},{"words":["needed","running","away","controlling","suppressing","resistance","understanding","fear","means","watch","learn","come","directly","contact","learn","fear","escape"],"answer":"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."},{"words":["obstacles","melt","away","instead","cowering","make","minds","walk","boldly"],"answer":"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."},{"words":["advertising","valuable","economic","factor","cheapest","way","selling","goods","particularly","goods","worthless"],"answer":"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."},{"words":["fears","conquered","sure","defeat"],"answer":"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."},{"words":["thing","fear","fear"],"answer":"The only thing to fear is fear itself."},{"words":["fear","fear","disappears"],"answer":"Do what you fear and fear disappears."},{"words":["time","hate","fear"],"answer":"In time we hate that which we often fear."},{"words":["live","fear","afraid","final","test","maturity"],"answer":"To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity."},{"words":["way","react","circumstances","determines","feelings"],"answer":"It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings."},{"words":["know","feel"],"answer":"To know is not less than to feel."},{"words":["i","believe","justice","instinct","innate","moral","sense","constitution","threat","feeling","seeing","hearing"],"answer":"I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing."},{"words":["flattery","looks","like","friendship","just","like","wolf","looks","like","dog"],"answer":"Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog."},{"words":["world","fools","wish","shut","break","lookingglass"],"answer":"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."},{"words":["fool","criticize","condemn","complain","fools"],"answer":"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."},{"words":["folly","cruel","consequences","malice","intent"],"answer":"Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent."},{"words":["lives","folly","wise","imagines"],"answer":"He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines."},{"words":["man","defrauds","time","rascal","does","twice","fool"],"answer":"If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool."},{"words":["forgiveness","key","happiness"],"answer":"Forgiveness is the key to happiness."},{"words":["little","vicious","minds","abound","anger","revenge","incapable","feeling","pleasure","forgiving","enemies"],"answer":"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."},{"words":["forgive","breaks","bridge","pass","reach","heaven","need","forgiven"],"answer":"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."},{"words":["forgive","thyself","little"],"answer":"Forgive thyself little, and others much."},{"words":["wise","man","make","haste","forgive","knows","value","time","suffer","pass","away","unnecessary","pain"],"answer":"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."},{"words":["brave","know","forgive","refined","generous","pitch","virtue","human","nature","arrive"],"answer":"Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at."},{"words":["able","bear","provocation","argument","great","reason","forgive","great","mind"],"answer":"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."},{"words":["forgiveness","fragrance","violet","sheds","heel","crushed"],"answer":"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."},{"words":["courage","greatest","blended","meekness","intellectual","ability","admired","sparkles","setting","modest","selfdistrust","does","human","soul","appear","strong","foregoes","revenge","dares","forgive","injury"],"answer":"Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury."},{"words":["says","fortune","does","visit","life","does","ready","receive","walks","door","flies","window"],"answer":"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."},{"words":["bad","fortune","good","turns","faces","heaven","good","fortune","bad","bows","heads","earth"],"answer":"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."},{"words":["ruined","fortunes","escaped","ruin","want","fortune","obtain","great","little","little","great"],"answer":"Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great."},{"words":["legitimacy","earth","government","choice","nation"],"answer":"There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation."},{"words":["aim","art","aim","life","increase","sum","freedom","responsibility","man","world","circumstances","reduce","suppress","freedom","temporarily","great","work","based","hatred","contempt","contrary","single","true","work","art","end","added","inner","freedom","person","known","loved"],"answer":"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it."},{"words":["wonderful","freedom","speech"],"answer":"There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech."},{"words":["man","nonconformist"],"answer":"Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist."},{"words":["pay","conformity","goes","long","run","conformists","honest","men","particulars","know","alive","man","honesty","reaches","point","shall","kneel","false","gods","day","meet","sink","class","counterfeits"],"answer":"You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits."},{"words":["ultimately","know","deeply","fear","freedom"],"answer":"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom."},{"words":["liberty","restraints","frontiers"],"answer":"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers."},{"words":["indignation","boils","blood","thought","heritage","throwing","away","thought","exceptions","fight","freedom","left","poor","forlorn","defenseless","radicals","revolutionaries","make","use","liberty","destroy","maintain","american","institutions"],"answer":"Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions."},{"words":["people","legitimate","foundation","government","protect","free","expression","object"],"answer":"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."},{"words":["useful","definition","liberty","obtained","seeking","principle","liberty","main","business","human","life","say","process","men","educate","responses","learn","control","environment"],"answer":"A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment."},{"words":["kinds","freedom","world","freedom","rich","powerful","freedom","artist","monk","renounces","possessions"],"answer":"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."},{"words":["principle","liberty","equality","coupled","mere","selfishness","make","men","devils","trying","independent","fight","need","religion","power","bring","principle","benevolence","love","men"],"answer":"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men."},{"words":["true","individual","freedom","exist","economic","security","independence","people","hungry","job","stuff","dictatorships"],"answer":"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."},{"words":["man","morally","free","possession","living","humanity","judges","world","judges","men","uncompromising","sincerity"],"answer":"A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity."},{"words":["freedom","lies","innate","human","capacity","choose","different","sorts","bondage","bondage","desire","self","esteem","bondage","light","lightens","lives"],"answer":"Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives."},{"words":["man","does","pace","companions","hears","different","drummer","let","step","music","hears","measured","faraway"],"answer":"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway."},{"words":["freedom","includes","right","mismanage","affairs"],"answer":"Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs."},{"words":["friendships","world","oft","confederacies","vice","leagues","pleasures"],"answer":"The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures."},{"words":["sane","little","bit","crazy"],"answer":"Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy."},{"words":["false","friendship","like","ivy","decays","ruins","walls","embraces","true","friendship","gives","new","life","animation","object","supports"],"answer":"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."},{"words":["true","friendship","like","sound","health","value","seldom","known","lost"],"answer":"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."},{"words":["delightful","friendships","agreement","disputation","personal","liking"],"answer":"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."},{"words":["way","friend"],"answer":"The only way to have a friend is to be one."},{"words":["let","live","house","road","friend","man"],"answer":"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."},{"words":["friend","understanding","virtue","equally","confide","opinion","value","justness","sincerity"],"answer":"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."},{"words":["human","beings","born","little","span","life","best","thing","friendship","intimacies","soon","places","know","leave","friendships","intimacies","cultivation","grow","roadside","expecting","force","inertia"],"answer":"Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to \"keep\" by force of inertia."},{"words":["friendship","stand","strain","good","advice","long"],"answer":"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."},{"words":["love","private","friends","preparatory","exercise","love","men"],"answer":"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men."},{"words":["learn","virtues","friends","love","faults","enemy","hates","easily","discover","real","character","friend","mirror","warmth","breath","impedes","clearness","reflection"],"answer":"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."},{"words":["friends","need","agree","comparable","friendships","intimacy","contrary","friendship","union","ideal","things","sense","ideal","subject","trouble","marriage"],"answer":"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is."},{"words":["life","fortified","friendships","love","loved","greatest","happiness","existence"],"answer":"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."},{"words":["man","friends","company","relies","wealth","goes","good","fortune","lasts","second","relatives","far","grave","leave","friend","good","deeds","grave"],"answer":"Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave."},{"words":["discover","new","intimate","friend","time","hears","speak","public","stranger","familiar","audience","longest","intimacy","foretell","behave"],"answer":"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then"},{"words":["wise","man","does","permit","set","mind","comparisons","friends","friendship","capable","going","extremes","people","evoked","qualities"],"answer":"The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities."},{"words":["let","friends","friends","deliberate","choice"],"answer":"Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice."},{"words":["man","strong","opinions","says","thinks","courageous","","friendless"],"answer":"The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless."},{"words":["military","justice","justice","military","music","music"],"answer":"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."},{"words":["friendship","love","understanding"],"answer":"Friendship is love with understanding."},{"words":["society","expects","man","passive","social","animal","believes","like","people","field","jurgen","expected","twin","rules","life","course","true","wanton","crucifixion","impulses","unnecessary","blocking","frustration","drives","urges","evil","reflects","sophistication","ennui","boredom","dissatisfaction","melancholy","fatigue","anxiety","neurosis"],"answer":"Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in \"Jurgen\" that \"to do what you always have done\" and \"what is expected of you\" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis."},{"words":["blessed","man","congenial","work","occupation","heart","affords","complete","outlet","forces"],"answer":"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."},{"words":["work","love","distaste","better","leave","work"],"answer":"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."},{"words":["chances","success","directly","proportional","degree","pleasure","desire","job","hate","face","fact","squarely"],"answer":"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."},{"words":["feel","growing","work","life","broadening","deepening","task","perpetual","tonic","place"],"answer":"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."},{"words":["men","noblest","dispositions","think","happiest","share","happiness"],"answer":"Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them."},{"words":["experience","world","teaches","ninetynine","cases","safe","just","question","generous","merciful"],"answer":"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."},{"words":["generosity","disguised","ambition","overlooks","small","order","secure","great"],"answer":"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."},{"words":["gives","readily","throw","away","gives","generosity","essence","generosity","self","sacrifice"],"answer":"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."},{"words":["genius","childhood","recaptured"],"answer":"Genius is childhood recaptured."},{"words":["author","genius","does","till","breath","spontaneity","ready","sensitiveness","child","innocence","eye","means","painter","ability","respond","freshly","quickly","new","scenes","old","scenes","new","traits","characteristics","newminted","hand","god","instead","sorting","quickly","dusty","categories","pigeonholing","wonder","surprise","feel","situations","immediately","keenly","word","trite","hardly","meaning","correspondences","things","aristotle","spoke","thousand","years","ago"],"answer":"The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the \"innocence of eye\" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word \"trite\" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see \"the correspondences between things\" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago."},{"words":["genius","respectable"],"answer":"Since when was genius found respectable?"},{"words":["genius","lawless","constitutes","genius","power","acting","creatively","laws","origination"],"answer":"As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination."},{"words":["makes","men","genius","make","new","ideas","idea","","possessing","","said","said"],"answer":"What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough."},{"words":["genius","percent","inspiration","ninetynine","percent","perspiration"],"answer":"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."},{"words":["man","genius","privileged","far","genius","dullness","insupportable","dullness"],"answer":"A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness."},{"words":["thing","impresses","america","way","parents","obey","children"],"answer":"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."},{"words":["i","television","educating","time","somebody","turns","set","i","room","read","book"],"answer":"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."},{"words":["peril","fine","faculty","delight","playing","pride","talent","commonly","developed","expense","character","greater","grows","mischief","talent","mistaken","genius","dogma","truth","ambition","greatest","ingenuity","poetry","sensuality","art"],"answer":"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art."},{"words":["thing","required","genius","love","truth"],"answer":"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."},{"words":["definition","genius","acts","unconsciously","produced","immortal","works","knowing","greatest","power","operates","unseen"],"answer":"The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen."},{"words":["machine","work","fifty","ordinary","men","machine","work","extraordinary","man"],"answer":"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."},{"words":["genius","man","likely","power","attending","insipid","distasteful","breaks","engagements","leaves","letters","unanswered","neglects","family","duties","incorrigibly","powerless","turn","attention","interesting","trains","imagery","genius","constantly","occupies","mind"],"answer":"A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind."},{"words":["discrepancy","genius","human","qualities","ask","oneself","little","talent","better"],"answer":"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."},{"words":["means","action","","shapeless","masses","","materials","","lie","need","celestial","change","flint","transparent","crystal","bright","clear","genius"],"answer":"All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius."},{"words":["genius","religion","lamp","outer","gate","palace","serve","cast","gleam","inhabitant","sits","darkness"],"answer":"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness."},{"words":["difference","genius","common","capacity","anticipates","explores","accidentally","hits","man","genius","frequently","employs","advantages","chance","presents","lapidary","gives","value","diamond","peasant","dug","knowing","value"],"answer":"The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value."},{"words":["tool","hammer","tend","problem","nail"],"answer":"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."},{"words":["common","sense","instinct","genius"],"answer":"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."},{"words":["true","genius","appears","world","know","sign","dunces","confederacy"],"answer":"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."},{"words":["genius","defined","ability","makes","platitude","sound","original","remark"],"answer":"Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark."},{"words":["let","minor","genius","light","way","enjoy","life","","great","nature","live","really","holiday","mood","plucks","flowers","wayside","ties","knots","garlands","like","little","children","lays","sunny","morning"],"answer":"Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning."},{"words":["people","think","really","does","genius"],"answer":"So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius"},{"words":["hold","good","continually","giving","","getting","hold","seed","sow","","reap","anew","hold","riches","use","riches","return"],"answer":"You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return."},{"words":["men","rich","gives","great","service","gets","great","rewards"],"answer":"Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards."},{"words":["like","seed","soil","","sows","greater","harvest"],"answer":"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest."},{"words":["plant","kernel","wheat","reap","pint","plant","pint","reap","bushel","law","works"],"answer":"Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give."},{"words":["bad","luck","superstitious"],"answer":"It is bad luck to be superstitious."},{"words":["goal","reached","vehicle","pain","fervently","believe","vigorously","act","route","success"],"answer":"Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."},{"words":["let","watch","beginnings","results","manage"],"answer":"Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves."},{"words":["tell","desire","expect","sigh","struggle","indefinite","thoughts","vast","wishes"],"answer":"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."},{"words":["great","thing","world","direction","moving"],"answer":"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."},{"words":["determined","want","important","decision","life","know","want","order","attain"],"answer":"When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it."},{"words":["life","thing","decide","really","want","weigh","costs","results","results","worthy","costs","make","mind","completely","goal"],"answer":"In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might."},{"words":["providence","good","high","store","does","resolutely","aim","high","good","purpose","eternal","condition","success"],"answer":"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."},{"words":["immense","power","life","power","possessing","distinct","aims","voice","dress","look","motions","person","define","alter","begins","live","reason"],"answer":"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason."},{"words":["determine","want","decide","major","objectives","targets","aims","destination"],"answer":"You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination."},{"words":["dying","dull","dreary","affair","advice"],"answer":"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."},{"words":["troubles","tools","god","fashions","better","things"],"answer":"Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things."},{"words":["religion","consists","humble","admiration","unlimitable","superior","reveals","slight","details","able","perceive","frail","feeble","minds","deeply","emotional","conviction","presence","superior","reasoning","power","revealed","incomprehensible","universe","forms","idea","god"],"answer":"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God"},{"words":["rebellion","tyrants","obedience","god"],"answer":"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."},{"words":["making","character","god","old","theologians","failed","mention","infinite","cheerfulness","omission","caused","world","tribulation"],"answer":"In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation."},{"words":["practicing","golden","rule","sacrifice","investment"],"answer":"Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment."},{"words":["gossip","lack","worthy","memory"],"answer":"Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory."},{"words":["wise","observer","business","like","curious","observing","labor","bees","stung","curiosity"],"answer":"One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."},{"words":["gossiping","circle","asked","doing","answer","swapping","lies"],"answer":"When of a gossiping circle it was asked, \"What are they doing?\" The answer was, \"Swapping lies.\""},{"words":["gossips","gossip"],"answer":"Who gossips to you will gossip about you."},{"words":["conversation","exercise","mind","gossip","merely","exercise","tongue"],"answer":"Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue."},{"words":["expert","gossiper","knows","leave","conversation"],"answer":"An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation"},{"words":["gossip","referred","halitosis","mind"],"answer":"Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind"},{"words":["live","ashamed","sell","family","parrot","town","gossip","lived"],"answer":"To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well"},{"words":["great","men","true","men","men","nature","succeeded","extraordinary","","true","order","species","men","ought"],"answer":"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."},{"words":["great","men","gifted","intuition","know","reasoning","analysis","need","know"],"answer":"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."},{"words":["reason","great","men","meet","little","pity","attachment","adversity","friends","great","man","fortune","enemies","revenge","punctual","paymaster","gratitude"],"answer":"The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude."},{"words":["superior","man","modest","speech","exceeds","actions"],"answer":"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."},{"words":["great","man","complains","want","opportunity"],"answer":"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."},{"words":["measure","master","success","bringing","men","opinion","years","later"],"answer":"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later."},{"words":["lights","stars","extinguished","ages","ago","reaches","great","men","died","centuries","ago","reach","radiations","personalities"],"answer":"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."},{"words":["great","men","little","ones"],"answer":"There would be no great men if there were no little ones."},{"words":["man","anybody","does","surely","going","criticized","vilified","misunderstood","penalty","greatness","great","man","understands","understands","proof","greatness","final","proof","greatness","lies","able","endure","continously","resentment"],"answer":"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment."},{"words":["society","reality","superior","intelligence","accepted","fellows","pretend"],"answer":"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."},{"words":["pain","palm","thorns","throne","gall","glory","cross","crown"],"answer":"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."},{"words":["democracy","theory","common","people","know","want","deserve","good","hard"],"answer":"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."},{"words":["great","greatly","good"],"answer":"He is not great who is not greatly good."},{"words":["away","people","try","belittle","ambitions","small","people","really","great","make","feel","great"],"answer":"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."},{"words":["attain","greatness","think","little","thoughts"],"answer":"If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts."},{"words":["partly","avoid","consciousness","greed","prefer","associate","greedy","consume","reproach"],"answer":"It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach."},{"words":["born","brave","trusting","greedy","remain","greedy"],"answer":"We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy."},{"words":["said","grief","like","grief","does","speak"],"answer":"Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak."},{"words":["grow","struggle","learn","overcome"],"answer":"We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome."},{"words":["gem","polished","friction","man","perfected","trials"],"answer":"The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials."},{"words":["i","believed","i","believe","good","bad","fortune","come","way","meaning","transform","value"],"answer":"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."},{"words":["unquestionably","progress","average","american","pays","twice","taxes","got","wages"],"answer":"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."},{"words":["close","scrutiny","crisis","situations","opportunities","advance","stay"],"answer":"Close scrutiny will show that most \"crisis situations\" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."},{"words":["affliction","happens","let","defeat","defeat"],"answer":"When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."},{"words":["use","walking","preach","unless","walking","preaching"],"answer":"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."},{"words":["examples","forcible","precept","people","look","days","week","i","mean","seventh"],"answer":"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh."},{"words":["speed","boss","speed","team"],"answer":"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team."},{"words":["innocence","intention","abates","mischief","example"],"answer":"The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example."},{"words":["act","principle","action","safely","law","world"],"answer":"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."},{"words":["conscience","children","formed","influences","surround","notions","good","evil","result","moral","atmosphere","breathe"],"answer":"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe."},{"words":["alexander","received","bravery","mind","pattern","achilles","hearing","definition","fortitude"],"answer":"Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude."},{"words":["people","changed","coercion","intimidation","example"],"answer":"People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example."},{"words":["went","broke","underestimating","intelligence","american","public"],"answer":"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."},{"words":["occurs","politicians","lincoln","worth","imitating","quoting"],"answer":"It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting."},{"words":["children","natural","mimics","act","like","parents","spite","effort","teach","good","manners"],"answer":"Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners."},{"words":["commit","crime","earth","glass"],"answer":"Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass."},{"words":["suspicion","haunts","guilty","mind","thief","doth","fear","bush","officer"],"answer":"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer."},{"words":["guilt","conscience","like","rust","iron","defiles","consumes","gnawing","creeping","does","eats","heart","substance","metal"],"answer":"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."},{"words":["guilty","catch"],"answer":"The guilty catch themselves."},{"words":["habits","","reason","persist","offering","satisfaction","allow","persist","seeking","better","form","satisfying","needs","habit","good","bad","acquired","learned","way","","finding","means","satisfaction"],"answer":"Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."},{"words":["habits","cobwebs","cables"],"answer":"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last."},{"words":["habit","friend","practice","long","pursued","man"],"answer":"Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself."},{"words":["older","i","grow","i","distrust","familiar","doctrine","age","brings","wisdom"],"answer":"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."},{"words":["phrases","men","hear","repeat","continually","end","convictions","ossify","organs","intelligence"],"answer":"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."},{"words":["consciousness","phase","mental","life","arises","connection","formation","new","habits","habit","formed","consciousness","interferes","spoil","performance"],"answer":"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance."},{"words":["idiot","tell","story","day","year","end","believing"],"answer":"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."},{"words":["people","correcting","young","bad","habit","tell","ought","bad","habits","tools","help","life"],"answer":"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."},{"words":["early","childhood","lay","foundation","poverty","riches","industry","idleness","good","evil","habits","train","children","teach","right","habits","future","life","safe"],"answer":"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe."},{"words":["repeated","failure","fully","act","wish","discourage","intention","essential","thing","time","release","bondage","habits","present","insuperable"],"answer":"Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable."},{"words":["twig","bent","tree","inclines"],"answer":"As a twig is bent the tree inclines."},{"words":["good","habits","formed","bad","habits","fall"],"answer":"Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into."},{"words":["live","conquer","incessantly","courage","happy"],"answer":"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."},{"words":["really","happy","man","laughs","","seldom","","smile","does","need","laugh","laugther","like","weeping","relief","mental","tension","","happy","strung"],"answer":"The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung."},{"words":["world","revolt","soon","kings","leftthe","king","england","king","spades","king","clubs","king","hearts","king","diamonds"],"answer":"The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds."},{"words":["inaccurate","say","i","hate","i","strongly","favor","common","sense","common","honesty","common","decency","makes","forever","ineligible","public","office"],"answer":"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."},{"words":["happy","time","fatigued","happy","engrosses","attention"],"answer":"When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention."},{"words":["happiness","simple","harmony","man","life","leads"],"answer":"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."},{"words":["did","unhappy","horse","did","bird","blues","reason","birds","horses","unhappy","trying","impress","birds","horses"],"answer":"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses."},{"words":["difference","happiness","wisdom","thinks","happiest","man","really","thinks","wisest","generally","greatest","fool"],"answer":"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."},{"words":["happiness","people","know","ruined","great","catastrophes","fatal","errors","repetition","slowly","destructive","little","things"],"answer":"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."},{"words":["happiness","like","manna","gathered","grains","enjoyed","day","accumulated","got","remote","places","gather","rained","heaven","door"],"answer":"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door."},{"words":["happiness","perfume","pour","getting"],"answer":"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself."},{"words":["indictments","civilizations","happiness","intelligence","rarely","person"],"answer":"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."},{"words":["prosperity","living","easily","happily","real","world","money"],"answer":"Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not."},{"words":["succeeded","life","really","want","really","need"],"answer":"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."},{"words":["rich","owes"],"answer":"He is rich who owes nothing."},{"words":["happiness","comes","capacity","feel","deeply","enjoy","simply","think","freely","risk","life","needed"],"answer":"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."},{"words":["persons","wrong","idea","constitutes","true","happiness","attained","selfgratification","fidelity","worthy","purpose"],"answer":"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."},{"words":["search","happiness","look","hat","wear","heads"],"answer":"Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads."},{"words":["remember","happiness","contagious","gloom","duty","happy","let","know","gladness"],"answer":"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."},{"words":["ask","happy","cease"],"answer":"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so."},{"words":["wished","happy","easily","accomplished","wish","happier","people","difficult","believe","happier"],"answer":"If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."},{"words":["i","seen","standing","shoulders","giants"],"answer":"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."},{"words":["happiest","people","think","interesting","thoughts","decide","use","leisure","means","mental","development","love","good","music","good","books","good","pictures","good","company","good","conversation","happiest","people","world","happy","cause","happiness"],"answer":"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."},{"words":["philosophers","consider","fact","greatest","happiness","principle","easily","excuse","benevolent","dictatorship","replace","modest","realistic","principle","","principle","fight","avoidable","misery","recognized","aim","public","policy","increase","happiness","left","main","private","initiative"],"answer":"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative."},{"words":["interested","making","believe","happy","trying","happy"],"answer":"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."},{"words":["world","today","large","number","people","desired","happiness","desired","unhappiness","paradise","years"],"answer":"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."},{"words":["happiness","sanction","life","happiness","fails","existence","remains","mad","lamentable","experiment"],"answer":"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."},{"words":["lead","life","make","kindly","friendly","surprised","happy","life","lead"],"answer":"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead."},{"words":["cherish","happy","moments","make","fine","cushion","old","age"],"answer":"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age."},{"words":["happiness","traveled","owned","earned","worn","consumed","happiness","spiritual","experience","living","minute","love","grace","gratitude"],"answer":"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."},{"words":["happiness","come","fail","appreciate"],"answer":"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."},{"words":["happiness","brought","pay","price"],"answer":"If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price."},{"words":["happiness","heart","circumstances"],"answer":"Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances."},{"words":["forcible","ways","make","end","evil","leave","hatred","malice"],"answer":"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."},{"words":["hate","enemies","giving","power","power","sleep","appetites","blood","pressure","health","happiness","enemies","dance","joy","knew","worrying","lacerating","getting","hate","hurting","hate","turning","days","nights","hellish","turmoil"],"answer":"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil."},{"words":["hatred","","anger","weak"],"answer":"Hatred - The anger of the weak."},{"words":["fears","presence","hate","absence"],"answer":"He that fears your presence will hate you absence."},{"words":["love","hate","selfhatred"],"answer":"We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred."},{"words":["hatred","enemies","easier","intense","love","friends","men","anxious","injure","opponents","benefit","world","large","great","good","expected"],"answer":"Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected."},{"words":["hard","remember","opinions","remembering","reasons"],"answer":"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"},{"words":["human","nature","hate","injured"],"answer":"It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured."},{"words":["hate","pollutes","mind"],"answer":"Hate pollutes the mind."},{"words":["hatred","boomerang","sure","hit","harder","throw"],"answer":"Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it."},{"words":["miraculously","people","hate","lovable"],"answer":"If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves."},{"words":["healthy","strong","individual","asks","help","needs","abscess","knee","soul"],"answer":"The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul."},{"words":["appalling","comments","present","way","life","half","beds","hospitals","reserved","patients","nervous","mental","troubles","patients","collapsed","crushing","burden","accumulated","yesterdays","fearful","tomorrows","vast","majority","people","walking","streets","today","leading","happy","useful","lives","heeded","words","jesus","anxiety","morrow","words","sir","william","osler","live","daytight","compartments"],"answer":"One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: \"Have no anxiety about the morrow\"; or the words of Sir William Osler; \"Live in day-tight compartments."},{"words":["building","perfect","body","crowned","perfect","brain","greatest","earthly","problem","grandest","hope","race"],"answer":"The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race."},{"words":["searching","preacher","selfcommand","varying","phenomenon","health"],"answer":"What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health."},{"words":["lengthen","thy","life","lessen","thy","meals"],"answer":"To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals"},{"words":["bodily","disease","look","entire","symptom","ailment","spiritual"],"answer":"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part."},{"words":["talking","oneself","means","conceal","oneself"],"answer":"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."},{"words":["sovereign","invigorator","body","exercise","exercises","walking","best"],"answer":"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."},{"words":["i","work","body","keeping","assumptions","temporary","state","reservation","i","appreciate","sympathize","given","disease","body","longer","appears","sick","irrational","demon","process","inner","logic","wisdom"],"answer":"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given \"disease.\" The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."},{"words":["excess","ill","drunkenness","worst","sort","spoils","health","dismounts","mind","unmans","men","reveals","secrets","quarrelsome","lascivious","impudent","dangerous","bad"],"answer":"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."},{"words":["ingredients","health","long","life","great","temperance","open","air","easy","labor","little","care"],"answer":"The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care."},{"words":["outofdoors","experience","wholesome","reality","ballast","thought","sentiment","health","requires","relaxation","aimless","life"],"answer":"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life"},{"words":["look","health","praise","god","value","good","conscience","health","second","blessing","money","buy","value","thankful"],"answer":"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it."},{"words":["health","valuable","lose"],"answer":"Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it."},{"words":["feel","fit","fiddle","tone","middle"],"answer":"To feel \"fit as a fiddle\" you must tone down your middle."},{"words":["times","remains","faithful","cause","opponents","cease","insipid"],"answer":"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."},{"words":["patient","going","doctor","visit","asked","did","consult","coming","mebronly","village","druggist","answerbrand","sort","foolish","advice","did","numbskull","asked","doctor","tone","manner","denoting","contempt","advice","laymanbroh","replied","patient","malice","aforethought","told","come"],"answer":"A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, \"And whom did you consult before coming to me?\"<br>\"Only the village druggist,\" was the answer.<br>\"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?\" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.<br>\"Oh,\" replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, \"he told me to come and see you.\""},{"words":["oh","replied","patient","malice","aforethought","told","come"],"answer":"\"Oh,\" replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, \"he told me to come and see you.\""},{"words":["impossible","make","wisdom","hereditary"],"answer":"It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary."},{"words":["i","consider","better","parties","leave","past","history","especially","i","propose","write","history"],"answer":"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."},{"words":["page","history","worth","pound","logic"],"answer":"A page of history is worth a pound of logic."},{"words":["grand","trait","old","roman","word","meant","honor","honesty"],"answer":"It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty."},{"words":["make","honest","man","sure","rascal","world"],"answer":"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world."},{"words":["completely","baffles","trick","duplicity","straigthforward","simple","integrity","knave","quarrel","brother","knave","fool","avoid","quarrel","honest","man","combat","fool","management","address","conquer","knave","temptations","honest","man","bamboozled","bribed"],"answer":"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed."},{"words":["won","ill","wear","curse","attends","waste","corrupt","dispositions","incline","men","sinful","ways","getting","incline","like","sinful","ways","spending"],"answer":"That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending."},{"words":["want","business","person","99","honest"],"answer":"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"},{"words":["honest","man","perpetual","renegade","life","honest","man","perpetual","infidelity","man","wishes","remain","faithful","perpetually","unfaithful","continual","successive","indefatigable","renascent","errors"],"answer":"The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors."},{"words":["make","world","honest","honestly","say","children","honesty","best","policy"],"answer":"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."},{"words":["i","hope","i","shall","possess","firmness","virtue","maintain","i","consider","enviable","titles","character","honest","man"],"answer":"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."},{"words":["giving","riches","honors","wicked","man","like","giving","strong","wine","hath","fever"],"answer":"The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever."},{"words":["hope","turn","read","attacks","lincoln"],"answer":"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."},{"words":["reason","individual","computer","home"],"answer":"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."},{"words":["hope","earliest","indispensable","virtue","inherent","state","alive","life","sustained","hope","remain","confidence","wounded","trust","impaired"],"answer":"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."},{"words":["country","owes","gave","gives","boy","girl","chance","gave","schooling","independence","action","opportunity","service","honor","land","boy","country","village","inheritance","influential","friends","look","forward","unbounded","hope"],"answer":"My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope."},{"words":["hope","endeavor"],"answer":"Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor."},{"words":["hope","companion","power","mother","success","hopes","strongly","gift","miracles"],"answer":"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."},{"words":["drinking","thirsty","making","love","time","madame","things","distinguish","animals"],"answer":"Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals."},{"words":["nature","trying","hard","make","succeed","nature","does","depend","experiment"],"answer":"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment"},{"words":["man","power","ruined","power","man","money","money","submissive","man","subservience","pleasure","seeker","pleasure"],"answer":"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure."},{"words":["human","nature","vicious"],"answer":"Human nature is not of itself vicious."},{"words":["man","errors","years","correct","quite","man"],"answer":"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."},{"words":["impossible","smile","outside","feeling","better","inside"],"answer":"It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside."},{"words":["pleasure","advice","humiliating","need","normal","ignore"],"answer":"It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it."},{"words":["people","confine","exercise","jumping","conclusions","running","bills","stretching","truth","bending","backward","lying","job","sidestepping","responsibility","pushing","luck"],"answer":"Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck."},{"words":["reproached","giving","unworthy","person","aristotle","said","i","did","man","humanity"],"answer":"Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, \"I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.\""},{"words":["great","thing","humble","brought","low","humble","praised","great","rare","attainment"],"answer":"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."},{"words":["thou","desire","love","god","man","humble","proud","heart","loves","beloved","humility","enforces","virtue","strength","reason","prevail"],"answer":"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail."},{"words":["true","humor","springs","head","heart","contempt","essence","love","issues","laugther","smiles","lie","far","deeper"],"answer":"True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper."},{"words":["essence","jokes","comedy","honest","intended","halfness","non","performance","pretended","performed","time","giving","loud","pledges","performance","balking","intellect","comedy","announces","pleasant","spasms","laughter"],"answer":"The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter."},{"words":["good","humor","paradox","unexpected","juxtaposition","reasonable","unreasonable"],"answer":"Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable."},{"words":["weasel","took","cork","lunch"],"answer":"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch."},{"words":["unless","man","woman","experienced","darkness","soul","know","transforming","laughter","hint","ultimate","reality","opposites","faintly","intuited"],"answer":"Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited."},{"words":["laugh","wheeze","snuff","box","right","sneeze"],"answer":"He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze."},{"words":["saying","ancient","sage","humor","test","gravity","gravity","humor"],"answer":"It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor."},{"words":["humor","","perfect","relationship","parts"],"answer":"Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole."},{"words":["imagination","given","man","compensate","sense","humor","console"],"answer":"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."},{"words":["senses","incomplete","sixth","","sense","humor"],"answer":"Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor."},{"words":["hypocrisy","afford","magnificent","promises","intending","promises","costs"],"answer":"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing."},{"words":["man","hypocrite","pleasures"],"answer":"No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures."},{"words":["false","face","hide","false","heart","doth","know"],"answer":"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."},{"words":["computing","field","need","new","cliches"],"answer":"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."},{"words":["ideals","like","stars","succeed","touching","hands","like","seafaring","man","desert","waters","choose","guides","following","reach","destiny"],"answer":"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."},{"words":["useless","send","armies","ideas"],"answer":"It is useless to send armies against ideas."},{"words":["way","person","acquires","new","idea","combination","association","ideas","new","juxtaposition","manner","discover","relationship","previously","aware"],"answer":"There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware."},{"words":["man","nation","exist","sublime","idea"],"answer":"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."},{"words":["prisoners","ideas"],"answer":"We are prisoners of ideas."},{"words":["men","accomplish","great","things","industrial","world","ones","faith","money","producing","power","ideas"],"answer":"Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas."},{"words":["i","hear","people","talking","liberal","ideas","i","astounded","men","love","fool","sounds","idea","liberal","vigorous","positive","loose","ends","fulfill","divine","mission","productive","proper","place","liberality","realm","emotions"],"answer":"Whenever I hear people talking about \"liberal ideas,\" I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."},{"words":["new","valid","idea","worth","regiment","fewer","men","furnish","command"],"answer":"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."},{"words":["idea","suggestive","come","individual","force","revelation"],"answer":"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."},{"words":["thinker","dies","thoughts","reach","destruction","men","mortal","ideas","immortal"],"answer":"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal."},{"words":["useless","close","gates","ideas","overlap"],"answer":"It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them."},{"words":["cold","head","cause","suffering","idea"],"answer":"A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea."},{"words":["world","powerful","idea","weapon","destroy","power","conquer","power","idea"],"answer":"There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea."},{"words":["ideas","factors","lift","civilization","create","revolutions","dynamite","idea","bombs"],"answer":"Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs."},{"words":["deepest","impression","inquired","friend","day","lincoln","stood","presence","falls","niagara","greatest","natural","wonders","","thing","stuck","forcibly","i","saw","falls","lincoln","responded","characteristic","deliberation","world","did","water","come"],"answer":"\"What made the deepest impression upon you?\" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, \"when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?\" ---- \"The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls,\" Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, \"was where in the world did all that water come from?\""},{"words":["people","run","ideas","long","run","words"],"answer":"Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words."},{"words":["idleness","perpetual","despair"],"answer":"In idleness there is a perpetual despair."},{"words":["idleness","inlet","disorder","makes","way","licentiousness","people","quickly","tired","company"],"answer":"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."},{"words":["sloth","makes","things","difficult","industry","things","easy","rises","late","trot","day","shall","scarce","overtake","business","night","laziness","travels","slowly","poverty","soon","overtakes"],"answer":"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."},{"words":["hours","job","hours","counts"],"answer":"It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts."},{"words":["purpose","idle","devil","thee","doing","bird","sits","easily","shot","fliers","escape","fowler","idleness","dead","sea","swallows","virtues","selfmade","sepulcher","living","man"],"answer":"Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man."},{"words":["ant","thou","sluggard","learn","live","busy","ways","reform","thine"],"answer":"Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own."},{"words":["idle","requires","strong","sense","personal","identity"],"answer":"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity."},{"words":["better","beggar","ignorant","beggar","wants","money","ignorant","person","wants","humanity"],"answer":"It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity."},{"words":["ignorance","pride","increased","assume","know"],"answer":"By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least."},{"words":["ignorance","voluntary","criminal","man","properly","charged","evil","neglected","refused","learn","prevent"],"answer":"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent."},{"words":["good","ignorant","man","silence","sensible","ignorant"],"answer":"Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant."},{"words":["proud","learning","greatest","ignorance"],"answer":"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance."},{"words":["matters","certainty","certain"],"answer":"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."},{"words":["proved","imagined"],"answer":"What is now proved was only once imagined."},{"words":["great","successful","men","world","used","imaginations","think","ahead","create","mental","picture","work","materializing","picture","details","filling","adding","little","altering","bit","bit","steadily","building","steadily","building"],"answer":"The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building."},{"words":["imagined"],"answer":"We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it."},{"words":["thousand","balloons","capable","raising","men","cost","ships","line","prince","afford","cover","country","troops","defense","10000","men","descending","clouds","places","infinite","deal","mischief","force","brought","repel"],"answer":"Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?"},{"words":["comes","thought","organization","thought","ideas","plans","transformation","plans","reality","beginning","observe","imagination"],"answer":"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."},{"words":["works","man","origin","creative","fantasy","right","depreciate","imagination"],"answer":"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."},{"words":["study","situation","thoroughly","imagination","various","courses","action","possible","consequences","follow","course","pick","course","gives","promise","ahead"],"answer":"Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead."},{"words":["child","lives","world","imagination","child","survives","starts","life","rare","moments","recollection","makes","believe","true","children","imaginative"],"answer":"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"},{"words":["entrepreneur","essentially","visualizer","actualizer","visualize","visualizes","sees","exactly","make","happen"],"answer":"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."},{"words":["calculator","eniac","equipped","18000","vacuum","tubes","weighs","30","tons","computers","future","1000","vaccuum","tubes","weigh","15","tons"],"answer":"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons."},{"words":["faculty","imagination","great","spring","human","activity","principle","source","human","improvement","delights","presenting","mind","scenes","characters","perfect","acquainted","prevents","completely","satisfied","present","condition","past","attainments","engages","continually","pursuit","untried","enjoyment","ideal","excellence","destroy","faculty","condition","man","stationary","brutes"],"answer":"The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes."},{"words":["gradually","grow","condition","desire","provided","make","habitual","mental","attitude","person","corresponds","conditions"],"answer":"We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions."},{"words":["i","visualize","things","mind","i","like","having","mental","workshop"],"answer":"I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop."},{"words":["imagination","pontoon","bridge","making","way","timid","feet","reason"],"answer":"Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason."},{"words":["imitation","far","precept","learn","learn","acquire","efficiently","pleasantly","forms","manners","opinions","lives"],"answer":"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives."},{"words":["i","hardly","know","true","mark","little","mind","servile","imitation"],"answer":"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others."},{"words":["poor","wit","lives","borrowing","words","decisions","inventions","actions"],"answer":"It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others."},{"words":["imitation","causes","leave","natural","ways","enter","artificial","ones","makes","slaves"],"answer":"Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves."},{"words":["patience","possession","soul","men","turn","bees","kill","stinging"],"answer":"Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others."},{"words":["main","human","sins","derive","impatience","indolence","impatience","expelled","paradise","indolence","return","major","sin","impatience","impatience","expelled","impatience","return"],"answer":"There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return."},{"words":["imperfection","complains","imperfect","perfect","gentle","quiet","defects"],"answer":"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others."},{"words":["lucky","word","impossible","good","comes","mouths"],"answer":"It is not a lucky word, this name \"impossible\"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths."},{"words":["impossible","word","dictionary","fools"],"answer":"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."},{"words":["judge","thine","improvement","thou","speakest","writest","firmness","thy","mind","government","thy","passions","affections"],"answer":"Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections."},{"words":["true","history","human","events","far","larger","proportion","acts","results","sudden","impulses","accident","reason","boast"],"answer":"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast."},{"words":["tells","individual","persuades"],"answer":"Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything."},{"words":["like","bee","make","industry","amusement"],"answer":"Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement."},{"words":["loses","time","employ","better","purpose"],"answer":"One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose."},{"words":["god","mind","man","peculiar","deliciousness","resides","fruits","personal","industry"],"answer":"God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry."},{"words":["great","thing","start","","opportunity","service","start","doing","beginning","serve","single","customer",""],"answer":"The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing."},{"words":["create","definite","plan","carrying","desire","begin","ready","plan","action"],"answer":"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."},{"words":["intending","live","new","life","time","set","","man","eating","drinking","day","till","starved","destroyed"],"answer":"To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed."},{"words":["worst","thing","try","aware","wants","spend","years","silent","hurt","wondering","materialized","","knowing"],"answer":"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."},{"words":["seeds","pestilence","body","active","contagion","tempers","tastes","principles","simply","world","exert","influence","compared","mere","language","persuasion","feeble"],"answer":"If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble."},{"words":["wishes","exert","useful","influence","careful","insult","let","troubled","absurd","concentrate","energies","creation","good","demolish","build","raise","temples","mankind","come","partake","purest","pleasure"],"answer":"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."},{"words":["influence","individual","character","extends","generation","generation"],"answer":"The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation."},{"words":["words","father","speaks","children","privacy","home","heard","world","whispering","galleries","clearly","heard","end","posterity"],"answer":"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."},{"words":["fraud","ready","minister","injustice"],"answer":"Fraud is the ready minister of injustice."},{"words":["better","obey","mysterious","direction","fuss","points","new","road","strange","road","probably","reason","truth","known"],"answer":"It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else."},{"words":["true","ashamed","doing","right","decide","think","right","stick"],"answer":"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it."},{"words":["things","preserve","integrity","consciousness","thine","uprightness","alleviate","toil","business","soften","hardness","illsuccess","disappointments","thee","humble","confidence","god","ingratitude","man","iniquity","times","rob","thee","rewards"],"answer":"In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards."},{"words":["god","placed","limits","exercise","intellect","given","grave"],"answer":"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."},{"words":["mind","makes","body","rich","sun","breaks","darkest","clouds","honor","peereth","meanest","habit"],"answer":"It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit."},{"words":["intuition","comes","close","clairvoyance","appears","extrasensory","perception","reality"],"answer":"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."},{"words":["mind","assert","pretend","proved","beliefs","i","test","body","intuitional","consciousness","i","response","i","accept"],"answer":"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."},{"words":["theory","difference","theory","practice","practice"],"answer":"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is."},{"words":["practical","observation","commonly","consists","collecting","facts","loading","guesses"],"answer":"Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses."},{"words":["jealousy","art","injuring"],"answer":"Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others."},{"words":["jealousy","far","torturous","understood","love","passion","entirely","unrelated","merits"],"answer":"Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits."},{"words":["jealousy","selflove","love"],"answer":"In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another."},{"words":["greatest","joy","getting","expressing","men","really","live","honors","pay","gladness","taking","holding","doing","striving","building","living","higher","joy","teach","taught","good","justice","better","fun","things","make","happy","man","lives","life","love","honors","bring","life"],"answer":"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."},{"words":["ask","god","forgive","evil","thoughts","evil","temper","rarely","ask","forgive","sadness"],"answer":"We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness."},{"words":["joy","thing"],"answer":"Joy is not a thing, it is in us."},{"words":["beautiful","compensations","life","man","sincerely","try","kind","helping"],"answer":"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself."},{"words":["drying","single","tear","honest","fame","shedding","seas","gore"],"answer":"The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore."},{"words":["week","i","went","philadelphia","closed"],"answer":"Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed."},{"words":["humanity","advanced","advanced","sober","responsible","cautious","playful","rebellious","immature"],"answer":"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."},{"words":["tenderness","kindness","signs","weakness","despair","manifestations","strength","resolutions"],"answer":"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."},{"words":["wise","sayings","fall","barren","ground","kind","word","thrown","away"],"answer":"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."},{"words":["pay","loan","gold","dies","forever","debt","kind"],"answer":"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind."},{"words":["feeling","life","refraining","hurting","comforting","sad"],"answer":"My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad."},{"words":["friendship","living","thing","lasts","long","nourished","kindness","empathy","understanding"],"answer":"Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding."},{"words":["real","knowledge","like","value","obtained","easily","worked","studied","thought","prayed"],"answer":"Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for."},{"words":["learning","acquired","reading","books","necessary","learning","knowledge","world","acquired","reading","men","studying","various","facets"],"answer":"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."},{"words":["knowledge","eye","desire","pilot","soul"],"answer":"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."},{"words":["fully","understood","possessed"],"answer":"What is not fully understood is not possessed."},{"words":["knowledge","desires","increase","like","kindled","external","agent","afterward","propagate"],"answer":"Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it."},{"words":["important","know","know","exact","value","appreciate","learn","arrange","know"],"answer":"It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know."},{"words":["accurate","knowledge","basis","correct","opinions","want","makes","opinions","people","little","value"],"answer":"Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value."},{"words":["knowledge","like","religion","experienced","order","known"],"answer":"Knowledge, like religion, must be \"experienced\" in order to be known."},{"words":["words","leaves","tree","language","fall","away","new","succession","takes","place"],"answer":"Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place."},{"words":["year","day","wager","salvation","prophecy","based","imperfect","knowledge"],"answer":"Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge."},{"words":["poetry","translated","poets","preserve","languages","trouble","learn","language","written","just","translation","beauties","poetry","preserved","language","originally","written","learn","language"],"answer":"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language."},{"words":["grammar","logic","free","language","mercy","tone","voice","grammar","protects","misunderstanding","sound","uttered","logic","protects","say","double","meaning"],"answer":"Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning."},{"words":["armed","language","adequate","leaf","filed","human","character"],"answer":"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character."},{"words":["having","supplied","names","omnipotence","justice","knowledge","providence",""],"answer":"Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?"},{"words":["laughter","lasts","slackens","unbraces","mind","weakens","faculties","causes","kind","remissness","dissolution","powers","soul","looked","weakness","composition","human","nature","consider","frequent","reliefs","receive","breaks","gloom","apt","depress","mind","damp","spirits","transient","unexpected","gleams","joy","care","grow","wise","great","pleasure","life"],"answer":"Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life."},{"words":["laugh","ear","ear","impossible","smile","wider","distance","eyes"],"answer":"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."},{"words":["beware","hates","laugh","child"],"answer":"Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child."},{"words":["laugther","costs","purchased","sacrifice","decency"],"answer":"That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency."},{"words":["life","does","cease","funny","people","die","ceases","people","laugh"],"answer":"Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."},{"words":["good","laugh","sunshine","house"],"answer":"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."},{"words":["laugh","sure","laugh","people","people"],"answer":"When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are."},{"words":["foolish","men","imagine","judgment","evil","thing","delayed","justice","accident","judgment","evil","thing","times","delayed","day","century","sure","life","sure","death"],"answer":"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death."},{"words":["lawsuit","know","right"],"answer":"May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right"},{"words":["hard","apply","knowledge","judgment","fact","kind","love","reservations","hate","prevent","seeing","wholly","black","white"],"answer":"We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white."},{"words":["said","man","rational","animal","life","i","searching","evidence","support"],"answer":"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."},{"words":["judgment","forced","experience"],"answer":"Judgment is forced upon us by experience."},{"words":["results","expressed","numbers","easy","make","mistake","thinking","intelligence","test","measure","like","foot","ruler","pair","scales","course","quite","different","sort","measure","intelligence","abstraction","like","length","weight","exceedingly","complicated","notion","","succeeded","defining"],"answer":"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining."},{"words":["judgments","watches","just","alike","believes"],"answer":"It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own."},{"words":["criminals","die","hands","law","die","hands","men"],"answer":"Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men."},{"words":["little","really","frame","hasty","judgments"],"answer":"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems."},{"words":["term","learning","disability","appeal","implies","specific","neurological","condition","held","particularly","responsible","escapes","stigma","mental","retardation","implication","neglect","emotional","disturbance","improper","training","education","does","imply","lack","motivation","child","cosmetic","reasons","nice","term"],"answer":"The term \"learning disability\" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around."},{"words":["look","ought","arbitrary","measures","bounds","clamped","mankind"],"answer":"One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind."},{"words":["punishment","unrighteous","severe","eyes","righteous"],"answer":"No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous."},{"words":["enacting","laws","break"],"answer":"Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break."},{"words":["problem","world","fools","fanatics","certain","wiser","people","doubts"],"answer":"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."},{"words":["office","hours","leaders"],"answer":"There are no office hours for leaders."},{"words":["great","leader","sets","followers","carrying","responsibilities"],"answer":"A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities."},{"words":["best","leader","sense","surround","outstanding","people","selfrestraint","meddle","jobs"],"answer":"The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs."},{"words":["outstanding","leaders","appeal","hearts","followers","","minds"],"answer":"Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds."},{"words":["seeing","suffering","studying","pillars","learning"],"answer":"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."},{"words":["till","man","judge","truths","understanding","little","improved","men","reading","greatly","learned","little","knowing"],"answer":"Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing."},{"words":["ignorance","things","evil","terrible","excessive","greatest","great","cleverness","learning","accompanied","bad","training","greater","misfortune"],"answer":"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."},{"words":["learning","shows","little","mortals","know","wealth","little","worldings","enjoy"],"answer":"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy."},{"words":["spare","minutes","golddust","time","portions","life","fruitful","good","evil","gaps","temptations","enter"],"answer":"Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter."},{"words":["falsehood","successful","baits","hook","truth","opinions","fatally","mislead","wholly","wrong","watches","effectually","deceive","wearer","right"],"answer":"Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right."},{"words":["sanity","calms","madness","interesting"],"answer":"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."},{"words":["lies","usually","caused","undue","fear","men"],"answer":"Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men."},{"words":["sin","tools","lie","handle","fits"],"answer":"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."},{"words":["good","memory","trade","lying"],"answer":"He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying."},{"words":["contradiction","sign","falsity","lack","contradiction","sign","truth"],"answer":"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."},{"words":["falsehood","infinity","combinations","truth","mode"],"answer":"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."},{"words":["liar","begins","making","falsehood","appear","like","truth","ends","making","truth","appear","like","falsehood"],"answer":"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."},{"words":["talk","apt","lie"],"answer":"The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie."},{"words":["fellow","says","told","lie","just","told"],"answer":"A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one."},{"words":["easier","believe","lie","heard","thousand","times","believe","fact","heard"],"answer":"It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before."},{"words":["books","world","contain","information","broadcast","video","single","large","american","city","single","year","bits","equal","value"],"answer":"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."},{"words":["man","sooner","later","discovers","mastergardener","soul","director","life"],"answer":"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."},{"words":["i","convinced","world","mere","bog","men","women","trample","mire","die","magnificent","taking","place","amid","cruelties","tragedies","supreme","challenge","intelligence","making","noblest","best","curious","heritage","prevail"],"answer":"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail."},{"words":["life","struggle","warfare"],"answer":"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."},{"words":["men","make","history","meaning","act","lives"],"answer":"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."},{"words":["small","portion","life","really","enjoy","youth","looking","forward","things","come","old","age","looking","backward","things","gone","past","manhood","appear","occupied","things","present","absorbed","vague","determinations","vastly","happy","future","day","time"],"answer":"How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time."},{"words":["journey","difficult","immerse","travel","far","lifetime","like","learn","hunger","know"],"answer":"The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know."},{"words":["life","man","true","romance","valiantly","conduced","yield","imagination","higher","joy","fiction"],"answer":"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."},{"words":["sooner","later","life","shall","poetry","fair","manly","trait","shall","add","richer","strain","song"],"answer":"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."},{"words":["note","dolphins","reported","learned","english","","fifty","words","used","correct","context","","human","reported","learned","dolphinese"],"answer":"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."},{"words":["life","does","count","years","suffer","lifetime","day","grow","old","rising","setting","sun"],"answer":"Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun."},{"words":["life","series","experiences","makes","bigger","hard","realize","world","built","develop","character","learn","setbacks","griefs","endure","help","marching","onward"],"answer":"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."},{"words":["viewed","summit","reason","life","looks","like","malignant","disease","world","like","madhouse"],"answer":"Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."},{"words":["course","life","unpredictable","write","autobiography","advance"],"answer":"The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance."},{"words":["live","function","living"],"answer":"To live is to function. That is all there is in living."},{"words":["embarks","voyage","life","wish","advance","impulse","wind","strokes","oar","foulder","passage","lie","waiting","gale"],"answer":"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale."},{"words":["life","hidden","forces","discover","living"],"answer":"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."},{"words":["game","life","holding","good","hand","playing","poor","hand"],"answer":"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."},{"words":["fact","geniuses","laughed","does","imply","laughed","geniuses","laughed","columbus","laughed","fulton","laughed","wright","brothers","laughed","bozo","clown"],"answer":"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."},{"words":["venture","journey","life","compelled","begin","end"],"answer":"Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?"},{"words":["life","tough","proposition","years","hardest"],"answer":"Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest."},{"words":["life","easier","think","necessary","accept","impossible","indispensable","bear","intolerable"],"answer":"Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable."},{"words":["i","exhort","great","combat","combat","life","greater","earthly","combat"],"answer":"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat."},{"words":["life","meant","lived","curiosity","kept","alive","reason","turn","life"],"answer":"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."},{"words":["wealth","life"],"answer":"There is no wealth but life."},{"words":["life","worth","living","necessary","assumptions","assumed","impossible","conclusions"],"answer":"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."},{"words":["i","govern","life","thoughts","world","read","does","signify","make","secret","neighbor","god","searcher","hearts","privacies","open"],"answer":"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"},{"words":["end","life","like","god","soul","following","god","like"],"answer":"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."},{"words":["mean","life","meet","live","shun","hard","names","bad","looks","poorest","richest"],"answer":"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest."},{"words":["i","supply","stimulant","handy","case","i","snakewhich","i","handy"],"answer":"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy."},{"words":["dead","departs","life","high","noble","fame","dead","living","brow","branded","infamy"],"answer":"He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy."},{"words":["live","expectation","living"],"answer":"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."},{"words":["longer","i","live","beautiful","life"],"answer":"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."},{"words":["average","person","living","age","70","613000","hours","life","long","period","fun"],"answer":"The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun."},{"words":["life","really","simple","create","circumstances","complicate"],"answer":"After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it."},{"words":["life","tragic","plenty","live","live"],"answer":"Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for."},{"words":["finds","life","worth","living","make","worth","living"],"answer":"No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living."},{"words":["life","short","taken","seriously"],"answer":"Life is too short to be taken seriously."},{"words":["talk","man","listen","hours"],"answer":"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."},{"words":["listening","somebody","completely","attentively","listening","words","feeling","conveyed"],"answer":"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."},{"words":["fourfifths","history","planet","populated","pond","scum"],"answer":"For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum."},{"words":["listened","generally","speaking","nearly","unique","experience","people","enormously","stimulating","small","wonder","people","demanding","lives","heard","fall","speechless","confronted","gravely","agrees","lend","ear","man","clamors","freedom","express","knowing","counts","offered","conditions","frigthened"],"answer":"To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened."},{"words":["good","listener","tries","understand","person","saying","end","disagree","sharply","disagrees","wants","know","exactly","disagreeing"],"answer":"A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."},{"words":["opportunities","missed","broadcasting","listening"],"answer":"Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening."},{"words":["time","stop","talking","person","nods","head","affirmatively","says"],"answer":"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing."},{"words":["little","things","shall","big","things","come","thee","asking"],"answer":"Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done."},{"words":["americans","unhappy","vicious","preoccupation","amassing","possessions","obliterates","loneliness","production","america","endless","upward","spiral","time","buy","deepen","emotional","deprivation","need","buy"],"answer":"Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something."},{"words":["law","man","love","neighbor","years","natural","mankind","breathing","upright","gait","does","learn","perish"],"answer":"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."},{"words":["motto","chivalry","motto","wisdom","serve","love"],"answer":"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."},{"words":["young","love","flame","pretty","hot","fierce","light","flickering","love","older","disciplined","heart","coals","deepburning","unquenchable"],"answer":"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."},{"words":["secrets","love","i","i","talk","little","flower","little","peanut","secrets","i","i","silently","commune","people","secrets","","love"],"answer":"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough."},{"words":["love","alliance","friendship","animalism","predominates","passion","exalted","refined","gross","sensual"],"answer":"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual."},{"words":["differ","man","looks","bearing","say","love"],"answer":"When you differ with a man, show him, by your looks, by your bearing and by everything that you do or say, that you love him."},{"words":["power","love","basis","state","tried"],"answer":"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."},{"words":["love","life"],"answer":"Where there is love there is life."},{"words":["intelligent","fool","make","things","bigger","complex","violent","takes","touch","genius","","lot","courage","","opposite","direction"],"answer":"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."},{"words":["love","blind","","sees","sees","willing"],"answer":"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."},{"words":["life","abundance","comes","great","love"],"answer":"Life in abundance comes only through great love."},{"words":["grace","inspiration","high","love","liberty","grace","spirit","law","discovery","spirit","law","belongs","saint","paul","calls","grace","heavenly","point","view","earthly","point","rigtheousness"],"answer":"What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls \"grace\" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call \"rigtheousness.\""},{"words":["love","marriage","accomplishment","beautiful","dream","end"],"answer":"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."},{"words":["treasure","love","receive","survive","long","gold","good","health","vanished"],"answer":"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."},{"words":["love","wisdom","drink","cup","everyday","world","exception"],"answer":"Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception."},{"words":["miracle","happens","time","really","love","possess"],"answer":"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."},{"words":["lover","knows","absolute","good","universal","beauty","logician","theologian","unless","lovers","disguise"],"answer":"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."},{"words":["life","does","cease","funny","people","die","ceases","people","laugh"],"answer":"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."},{"words":["force","potent","love"],"answer":"What force is more potent than love?"},{"words":["remedy","love","love"],"answer":"There is no remedy for love but to love more."},{"words":["love","canvas","furnished","nature","embroidered","imagination"],"answer":"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."},{"words":["important","thing","father","children","love","mother"],"answer":"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."},{"words":["fall","love"],"answer":"If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?"},{"words":["good","marriage","winds","meeting","minds","better","pretty","good","start"],"answer":"A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with."},{"words":["love","man","embarrassment","word","woman","excuse","existence","especially","word"],"answer":"Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word."},{"words":["luck","bad","good","way","favoring","intelligent","showing","stupid"],"answer":"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."},{"words":["i","quote","adds","spice","conversation"],"answer":"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."},{"words":["people","fond","illluck","run","halfway","meet"],"answer":"Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it."},{"words":["unlucky","place","unlucky","man","i","seen","clever","men","clever","men","shoes","feet","i","act","advice","sounds","good","good"],"answer":"Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?"},{"words":["luck","good","word","p"],"answer":"\"Luck\" is a very good word if you put a P before it."},{"words":["luck","man","depends"],"answer":"Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it."},{"words":["malice","sucks","greater","venom","poisons"],"answer":"Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself."},{"words":["good","manners","good","morals","sworn","friends","fast","allies"],"answer":"Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies."},{"words":["prepare","world","athletes","used","exercise","oil","mind","manners","necessary","suppleness","flexibility","strength"],"answer":"Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do."},{"words":["society","women","element","good","manners"],"answer":"The society of women is the element of good manners."},{"words":["better","unborn","ill","bred"],"answer":"Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred."},{"words":["democracy","device","ensures","shall","governed","better","deserve"],"answer":"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."},{"words":["good","manners","court","ridiculous","country","behavior","country","mockable","court"],"answer":"Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court."},{"words":["thinking","manners","way","make","good","perfection","manners","think"],"answer":"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself."},{"words":["equations","just","boring","mathematics","i","attempt","things","terms","geometry"],"answer":"Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry."},{"words":["true","spirit","delight","exaltation","sense","man","touchstone","highest","excellence","mathematics","surely","poetry"],"answer":"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."},{"words":["solitude","safeguard","mediocrity"],"answer":"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity."},{"words":["republic","mediocrity","genius","dangerous"],"answer":"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous."},{"words":["minds","moderate","caliber","ordinarily","condemn","range"],"answer":"Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range."},{"words":["want","win","friends","make","point","remember","remember","pay","subtle","compliment","indicate","i","impression","remember","add","feeling","importance"],"answer":"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."},{"words":["memories","card","indexes","consulted","disorder","authorities","control"],"answer":"Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."},{"words":["memory","depends","perspicuity","regularity","order","thoughts","complain","want","memory","defect","judgment","grasping","retain"],"answer":"Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing."},{"words":["england","america","countries","separated","common","language"],"answer":"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."},{"words":["remember","minutely","precisely","things","really","happened"],"answer":"We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us."},{"words":["memory","tempers","prosperity","mitigates","adversity","control","youth","delights","old","age"],"answer":"Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age."},{"words":["learn","pleasure","forget"],"answer":"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."},{"words":["lulled","countless","chambers","brain","thoughts","linked","hidden","chain","awake","myriads","rise"],"answer":"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!"},{"words":["memory","wisdom","idiots","rote","repeat","volumes","wisdom","memory"],"answer":"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?"},{"words":["live","memories","happiness"],"answer":"So live that your memories will be part of your happiness."},{"words":["improves","memory","trying","forget"],"answer":"Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget."},{"words":["old","minds","like","old","horses","exercise","wish","working","order"],"answer":"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."},{"words":["mind","loving","bear","plainly","recess","mind"],"answer":"No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind."},{"words":["failure","mind","old","age","results","natural","decay","disuse","ambition","ceased","operate","contentment","bring","indolence","indolence","decay","mental","power","ennui","death","men","known","die","literally","speaking","disease","induced","intellectual","vacancy"],"answer":"The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy."},{"words":["power","accurate","observation","commonly","called","cynicism","got"],"answer":"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."},{"words":["life","good","marriage","true","minds","man","woman","good","life"],"answer":"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? 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Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!"},{"words":["i","puzzled","fact","people","great","deal","trouble","pain","forced","feel","forced","change","belief","circumstance","hold","dear","i","i","believe","answer","i","read","canadian","neurosurgeon","discovered","truths","human","mind","revealed","intensity","problem","conducted","experiments","proved","person","forced","change","basic","belief","viewpoint","brain","undergoes","series","nervous","sensations","equivalent","agonizing","torture"],"answer":"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture."},{"words":["minds","like","stomachs","whetted","change","food","variety","supplies","fresh","appetites"],"answer":"Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites."},{"words":["know","minds","know","hearts"],"answer":"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."},{"words":["man","fearless","dangers","untainted","lusts","happy","adversity","composed","tumult","laughing","things","generally","coveted","feared","men","acknowledge","beam","divinity","influences","mortal","body"],"answer":"To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body."},{"words":["mind","maketh","good","ill","maketh","wretch","happy","rich","poor"],"answer":"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."},{"words":["simple","independent","mind","does","toil","bidding","prince"],"answer":"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince."},{"words":["test","firstrate","intelligence","ability","hold","opposed","ideas","mind","time","retain","ability","function"],"answer":"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."},{"words":["winner","war","1812","tchaikovsky"],"answer":"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky"},{"words":["mind","great","lever","things"],"answer":"Mind is the great lever of all things."},{"words":["like","swift","water","active","mind","stagnates"],"answer":"Like swift water an active mind never stagnates."},{"words":["cluttered","desk","sign","cluttered","mind","just","does","desk","mean"],"answer":"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?"},{"words":["nature","abhors","vacuum","head","lacks","brains","nature","fills","conceit"],"answer":"Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit."},{"words":["living","events","centuries","come","minutely","studied","scholars","undoubtedly","days","probably","exciting","creative","history","mankind","preoccupied","daily","chores","worries","personal","hopes","ambitions","actually","living","present"],"answer":"We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present."},{"words":["weaknesses","age","apparent","inability","distinguish","need","greed"],"answer":"One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed."},{"words":["money","terrible","master","excellent","servant"],"answer":"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."},{"words":["important","parts","man","briefly","private","parts","money","religious","beliefs"],"answer":"The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs."},{"words":["money","starts","idea","idea","starts","money"],"answer":"Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money."},{"words":["money","represents","prose","life","hardly","spoken","parlors","apology","effects","laws","beautiful","roses"],"answer":"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."},{"words":["pay","attention","critics","say","remember","statue","set","honor","critic"],"answer":"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!"},{"words":["make","money","god","plague","like","devil"],"answer":"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."},{"words":["money","man","happy","nature","produce","happiness","man","wants","instead","filling","vacuum","makes","satisfies","want","doubles","trebles","want","way","true","proverb","wise","man","rely","better","little","fear","lord","great","treasure","trouble","therewith"],"answer":"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; \"Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.\""},{"words":["safest","way","double","money","fold","pocket"],"answer":"The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket."},{"words":["month","paycheck","need","realize","abundance","focus","abundance","lack","night","follows","day","abundance","come"],"answer":"When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you."},{"words":["mannon","largest","slaveholder","world"],"answer":"Mannon is the largest slave-holder in the world."},{"words":["solvency","entirely","matter","temperament","income"],"answer":"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."},{"words":["way","money","exception","leads","downward"],"answer":"The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward."},{"words":["rich","people","hire","people","die","poor","make","wonderful","living"],"answer":"If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living."},{"words":["men","accountable","motives","primarily","morality","consists","motives","affections"],"answer":"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections."},{"words":["good","motive","sanction","bad","action","bad","motive","vitiate","good","action","common","trivial","matters","act","motives","momentous","ones","careful","deliberation","wisdom"],"answer":"Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom."},{"words":["man","price","true","man","exists","bait","resist","swallowing","win","certain","people","necessary","gloss","love","humanity","nobility","gentleness","selfsacrifice","","swallow","souls","icing","tidbit","kinds","souls"],"answer":"\"Every man has his price.\" This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others."},{"words":["frequently","ashamed","good","deeds","people","saw","motives","produced"],"answer":"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."},{"words":["i","decide","i"],"answer":"Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do."},{"words":["music","said","speech","angels"],"answer":"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."},{"words":["stop","flow","music","like","stopping","time","incredible","inconceivable"],"answer":"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."},{"words":["best","beautiful","perfect","way","expressing","sweet","concord","mind","music"],"answer":"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music."},{"words":["sounds","earth","like","music"],"answer":"All the sounds of the earth are like music."},{"words":["ahhh","man","sharp","wit","ought","away","cuts"],"answer":"Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself."},{"words":["grownup","people","think","appreciate","music","realized","sense","infant","brought","appreciating","sound","rhythm","boast","knowing","music","infant","music","cradle","moving","little","arms","legs","certain","rhythm","music","falls","ears","infant","lowest","character","compared","music","accustomed"],"answer":"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to."},{"words":["theology","i","music","highest","place","honor","david","saints","wrought","godly","thoughts","verse","rhyme","song"],"answer":"Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song."},{"words":["passions","violent","expressed","reach","point","causing","disgust","music","situations","greatest","horror","painful","ear","flatter","charm","remain","music"],"answer":"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."},{"words":["learning","music","youthful","hearts","learn","love"],"answer":"It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love."},{"words":["painting","weakest","expression","highest","moral","spiritual","ideas","music","sublimely","strong"],"answer":"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."},{"words":["explain","martial","strain","urge","man","rank","battle","sooner","argument","fine","anthem","excite","devotion","certainly","logical","discourse"],"answer":"Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse."},{"words":["good","like","good","attained","actions","lost"],"answer":"A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one."},{"words":["nature","thrifty","thing","world","wastes","undergoes","change","annihilation","essence","remains","","matter","eternal"],"answer":"Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal."},{"words":["nature","mutable","cloud"],"answer":"Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same."},{"words":["nature","hates","calculators"],"answer":"Nature hates calculators."},{"words":["education","survives","learned","forgotten"],"answer":"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."},{"words":["nature","affected","finance","offered","thousand","dollars","let","touch","eyeball","blinking","collect","money","moment","nature","force","blink","eye","nature","protect"],"answer":"Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own."},{"words":["nature","delivers","stale","nature","creates","eternity"],"answer":"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."},{"words":["time","saves","does","look","neighbor","says","does","thinks"],"answer":"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."},{"words":["man","alters","opinions","like","standing","water","breeds","reptiles","mind"],"answer":"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."},{"words":["popular","opinion","greatest","lie","world"],"answer":"Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world."},{"words":["liberal","man","impute","charge","unsteadiness","having","changed","opinion"],"answer":"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion."},{"words":["dare","kill","fear","neighbors","say"],"answer":"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."},{"words":["people","capable","expressing","equanimity","opinions","differ","prejudices","social","environment","people","incapable","forming","opinions"],"answer":"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. 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Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out."},{"words":["procrastination","grave","opportunity","buried"],"answer":"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."},{"words":["people","think","opportunity","means","chance","money","earning"],"answer":"Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it."},{"words":["heard","opportunity","knocking","door","time","unhooked","chain","pushed","bolt","turned","locks","shuts","burglar","alarm","","gone"],"answer":"Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone."},{"words":["think","knowledge","literally","gift","gods","solve","human","problem","make","incurable","optimist","open","door"],"answer":"You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door."},{"words":["truly","great","madness","achieved","significant","intelligence"],"answer":"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."},{"words":["cases","eyestrain","developed","looking","bright","things"],"answer":"Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things."},{"words":["condense","daily","experience","glowing","symbol","audience","electrified"],"answer":"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified."},{"words":["tipping","custom","originated","england","small","sums","dropped","box","marked","tips","insure","prompt","service"],"answer":"The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE."},{"words":["men","strong","minds","think","discouraged","finding","occasionally","best","ideas","anticipated","writers","anathematize","despair","discovering","things","discovered","rewarded","land","hitherto","unknown","empire","indisputably","right","conquest","discovery"],"answer":"Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery."},{"words":["originality","simply","pair","fresh","eyes"],"answer":"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes."},{"words":["son","gift","let","enthusiasm"],"answer":"If you give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."},{"words":["mother","person","lean","person","make","leaning","unnecessary"],"answer":"A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary."},{"words":["american","children","suffer","mother","little","father"],"answer":"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."},{"words":["acknowledge","fault","throw","authority","guard","opportunity","commit"],"answer":"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."},{"words":["children","begin","loving","parents","grow","older","judge","forgive"],"answer":"Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them."},{"words":["patience","bitter","fruit","sweet"],"answer":"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."},{"words":["necessary","men","great","action","greatest","sublimest","power","simple","patience"],"answer":"It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience."},{"words":["ounce","patience","worth","pound","brains"],"answer":"An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains."},{"words":["powers","opinion","constitute","wise","man","bearing","forebearing"],"answer":"The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing."},{"words":["lack","talent","expect","things","happen","effort","ascribe","failure","lack","inspiration","ability","misfortune","insufficient","application","core","true","talent","awareness","difficulties","inherent","achievement","confidence","persistence","patience","worthwhile","realized","talent","species","vigor"],"answer":"They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor."},{"words":["patience","key","content"],"answer":"Patience is the key to content."},{"words":["times","god","asks","children","silence","patience","tears"],"answer":"There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears."},{"words":["son","observe","postage","stamp","usefulness","depends","ability","stick","thing","gets"],"answer":"My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."},{"words":["democracy","people","need"],"answer":"Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them."},{"words":["patience","simple","things","perfectly","acquire","skill","difficult","things","easily"],"answer":"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."},{"words":["patient","man"],"answer":"A patient man is one who can put up with himself."},{"words":["kind","peaceful","cooperation","men","primarily","based","mutual","trust","secondarily","institutions","courts","justice","police"],"answer":"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."},{"words":["merely","want","live","peace","world","trade","commune","learn","culture","learn","products","toil","used","schools","roads","churches","guns","planes","tanks","ships","war"],"answer":"We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war."},{"words":["peace","comes","fear","heart","opposite","peace"],"answer":"A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace."},{"words":["mankind","wished","right","long","ago"],"answer":"If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago."},{"words":["true","solid","peace","nations","consists","equality","arms","mutual","trust"],"answer":"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone."},{"words":["peace","does","rest","charters","covenants","lies","hearts","minds","people","let","rest","hopes","parchment","paper","let","strive","build","peace","desire","peace","willingness","work","peace","hearts","minds","people","i","believe","i","believe","problems","human","destiny","reach","human","beings"],"answer":"But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings."},{"words":["violence","unnecessary","costly","peace","way"],"answer":"Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way."},{"words":["end","war","want","end","beginnings","wars"],"answer":"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."},{"words":["peace","happy","natural","state","man","war","corruption","disgrace"],"answer":"Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace."},{"words":["best","way","end","war","begin"],"answer":"The best way to end a war is not to begin it."},{"words":["peace","won","compromise","principles","shortlived","achievement"],"answer":"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement."},{"words":["peace","cost","war","better","buy"],"answer":"Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy."},{"words":["money","buy","peace","mind","heal","ruptured","relationships","build","meaning","life"],"answer":"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."},{"words":["unable","tranquillity","useless","seek"],"answer":"When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."},{"words":["stupid","said","sung"],"answer":"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."},{"words":["tell","difficult"],"answer":"We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see."},{"words":["greatest","thing","human","soul","does","world","tell","saw","plain","way","hundreds","people","talk","think","thousands","think","clearly","poetry","prophecy","religion"],"answer":"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one."},{"words":["perfection","man","imperfection"],"answer":"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection."},{"words":["perfection","preached","gospels","built","empire","man","action","strong","dose","egotism","pride","hardness","cunning","things","forgiven","regarded","high","qualities","make","means","achieve","great","ends"],"answer":"The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends."},{"words":["trifles","make","perfectionbrand","perfection","trifle"],"answer":"Trifles go to make perfection,<br>And perfection is no trifle."},{"words":["plodding","wins","race"],"answer":"Plodding wins the race."},{"words":["man","observes","vigilantly","resolves","steadfastly","grows","unconsciously","genius"],"answer":"Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius."},{"words":["great","question","failed","content","failure"],"answer":"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."},{"words":["i","select","quality","personal","characteristic","i","regard","highly","correlated","success","field","i","pick","trait","persistence","determination","endure","end","knocked","seventy","times","floor","saying","comes","number","seventyone"],"answer":"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, \"Here comes number seventy-one!\""},{"words":["man","gives","accomplishes","hindrance","man","does","mountains"],"answer":"The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains."},{"words":["man","thrown","hands","time","little","effort","little","patience","achieved","success"],"answer":"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"},{"words":["falling","drops","wear","stone"],"answer":"The falling drops at last will wear the stone."},{"words":["things","impracticable","want","application","means","men","fail","succeed"],"answer":"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."},{"words":["great","work","great","accomplishment","brought","manifestation","holding","vision","just","big","achievement","comes","apparent","failure","discouragement"],"answer":"Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."},{"words":["miracle","power","elevates","industry","application","perseverance","prompting","brave","determined","spirit"],"answer":"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."},{"words":["time","fall","make"],"answer":"If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through."},{"words":["philosophy","century","common","sense"],"answer":"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."},{"words":["true","philosophy","invents","merely","establishes","describes"],"answer":"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is."},{"words":["beware","great","god","lets","loose","thinker","planet"],"answer":"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."},{"words":["true","philosopher","like","elephant","puts","second","foot","solidly","place"],"answer":"A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place."},{"words":["thing","philosopher","relied","contradict","philosophers"],"answer":"There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers."},{"words":["genuine","philosophy","leads","action","action","wonder","enduring","fact","mystery"],"answer":"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery."},{"words":["great","philosophy","passes","final","judgments","establishes","ultimate","truth","causes","uneasiness","starts","commotion"],"answer":"A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion."},{"words":["philosophy","triumphs","easily","past","evils","future","evils","present","evils","triumph"],"answer":"Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it."},{"words":["philosopher","merely","subtle","thoughts","school","love","wisdom","live","according","dictates","life","simplicity","independence","magnanimity","trust"],"answer":"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust."},{"words":["i","believe","creator","philosophical","did","confess","end","life","wasted","time","admitted","inventors","mechanical","arts","useful","men","inventors","syllogisms","imagined","ship","towers","considerably","imagined","innate","ideas"],"answer":"I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas."},{"words":["religion","man","using","divining","rod","philosophy","man","using","pick","shovel"],"answer":"Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel."},{"words":["reason","thusness"],"answer":"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"},{"words":["play","essential","function","passage","immaturity","emotional","maturity","individual","opportunities","adequate","play","early","life","seeking","stuff","adult","life"],"answer":"Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life."},{"words":["parent","gets","floor","play","child","christmas","day","usually","doing","remarkable","thing","","seldom","repeated","rest","year","busy","parents","committed","work","success","larger","society","leftover","time","play","children"],"answer":"The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children."},{"words":["life","pleasure","makes","strongest","mind","frivolous"],"answer":"A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last."},{"words":["sinful","forbidden","pleasures","like","poisoned","bread","satisfy","appetite","moment","death","end"],"answer":"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."},{"words":["frequent","conversations","disagreeable","self","man","pleasure","enthusiasms","transient","appetites","like","angry","creditors","continually","making","fruitless","demands","unable","pay","greater","pleasures","strong","regret","impatient","expectations","life","pleasure","unpleasing","life"],"answer":"None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life."},{"words":["pleasures","world","deceitful","promise","trouble","seeking","satisfy","possessing","make","despair","losing"],"answer":"The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them."},{"words":["enjoy","present","pleasures","way","injure","future","ones"],"answer":"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."},{"words":["judge","lawfulness","unlawfulness","pleasure","rule","weakens","reason","impairs","tenderness","conscience","obscures","sense","god","takes","relish","spiritual","things","short","increases","strength","authority","body","mind","sin","innocent"],"answer":"Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself."},{"words":["yes","nirvanah","leading","sheep","green","pasture","putting","child","sleep","writing","line","poem"],"answer":"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."},{"words":["good","poem","confessional","just","selfexpression","earth","claim","pearl","expresses","oyster"],"answer":"No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?"},{"words":["i","think","surest","sign","intelligent","life","exists","universe","tried","contact"],"answer":"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."},{"words":["object","deprive","poem","threefourths","pleasure","consists","littlebylittle","guessing","game","ideal","suggest"],"answer":"To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest."},{"words":["race","prosper","till","learns","dignity","tilling","field","writing","poem"],"answer":"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."},{"words":["poem","begins","delight","ends","wisdom"],"answer":"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."},{"words":["healthy","man","food","days","","poetry"],"answer":"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."},{"words":["poetry","reveals","loveliness","nature","brings","freshness","youthful","feelings","reviews","relish","simple","pleasures","keeps","unquenched","enthusiasm","warmed","springtime","refines","youthful","love","strengthens","human","mature","vivid","delineations","tenderest","softest","feelings","brightness","prophetic","visions","helps","faith","lay","hold","future","life"],"answer":"Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life."},{"words":["poetry","turning","loose","emotion","escape","emotion","expression","personality","escape","personality","course","personality","emotion","know","means","want","escape","things"],"answer":"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things."},{"words":["i","metaphysical","poetry","ordinarily","apprehensible","thought","brought","grasp","feeling","ordinarily","felt","transformed","thought","ceasing","feeling"],"answer":"I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling."},{"words":["sooner","later","life","shall","poetry","fair","manly","trait","shall","add","richer","strain","song"],"answer":"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."},{"words":["doctor","told","stop","having","intimate","dinners","unless","people"],"answer":"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."},{"words":["easier","write","indifferent","poem","understand","good"],"answer":"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one."},{"words":["poetry","comes","nearer","vital","truth","history"],"answer":"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history."},{"words":["office","poetry","make","think","accurately","feel","truly"],"answer":"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly."},{"words":["greatest","poem","skillfully","constructed","poetry"],"answer":"The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry."},{"words":["poetry","record","best","happiest","moments","happiest","best","minds"],"answer":"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."},{"words":["good","poetry","simple","natural","thing","meet","wonder","men","poets","poetry","healthy","speech"],"answer":"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."},{"words":["verses","teach","men","new","moving","truths","deserve","read"],"answer":"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."},{"words":["talent","like","faucet","open","write","inspiration","","hoax","fabricated","poets","selfimportance"],"answer":"Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance."},{"words":["artist","depicting","man","disdainful","storm","stress","life","reconciling","healing","poet","endowing","nature","humanity","rejoices","measureless","superiority","human","passions","human","sorrows"],"answer":"The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows."},{"words":["joyful","poet","bebrit","men"],"answer":"Most joyful the Poet be;<br>It is through him that all men see."},{"words":["poet","philosopher","saint","things","friendly","sacred","events","profitable","days","holy","men","divine"],"answer":"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."},{"words":["classes","poets","","poets","education","practice","respect","poets","nature","love"],"answer":"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."},{"words":["mediocrity","allowed","poets","gods","man"],"answer":"Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man."},{"words":["inside","man","poet","died","young"],"answer":"Inside every man there is a poet who died young."},{"words":["democracy","recurrent","suspicion","half","people","right","half","time"],"answer":"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."},{"words":["poet","need","age","posterity"],"answer":"A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity."},{"words":["poets","thatnjudges","interpreters","poetry","easier","write","indifferent","poem","understand","good"],"answer":"We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one."},{"words":["memorable","verse","true","poet","times","written","content"],"answer":"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."},{"words":["daily","life","poor","blame","blame","tell","poet","forth","riches","creator","poverty","poor","indifferent","place"],"answer":"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place."},{"words":["good","poet","sticks","real","loves","realm","possibility","tries","hold","hands","god","human","race"],"answer":"The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."},{"words":["does","poet","create","originate","initiate","thing","called","poem","behavior","merely","product","genetic","environmental","histories"],"answer":"Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?"},{"words":["man","considered","superior","species","animal","produces","philosophies","poems","way","silkworm","produces","cocoons","bees","hives"],"answer":"Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives."},{"words":["books","carriers","civilization","books","history","silent","literature","dumb","science","crippled","thought","speculation","standstill","i","think","crime","opposed","poetry","philosophy","ay","life","incessant","business"],"answer":"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."},{"words":["poet","judges","judge","judges","sun","falling","helpless","thing"],"answer":"The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing."},{"words":["thing","moral","immoral","book","books","written","badly","written"],"answer":"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."},{"words":["listening","language","locality","poet","begins","learn","craft","function","lift","use","imagination","language","hears","material","conditions","appearances","environment","sphere","intelligence","new","currency"],"answer":"By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency."},{"words":["poet","sings","sing","great","poet","does","great","poet","sings","chooses","sing"],"answer":"No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing."},{"words":["depends","look","things"],"answer":"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves."},{"words":["surer","way","misread","document","read","literally","nearly","place","uttered","words","try","divine","dealt","unforeseen","situation","evidence","means","final"],"answer":"There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final."},{"words":["brave","live","creatively","creative","place","leave","city","comfort","wilderness","intuition","bus","hard","work","risking","quite","knowing","doing","discover","wonderful"],"answer":"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself."},{"words":["men","lifetime","come","near","exhausting","resources","dwelling","deep","wells","strength","used"],"answer":"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."},{"words":["blaise","pascal","used","mark","charcoal","walls","playroom","seeking","means","making","circle","perfectly","round","triangle","sides","angle","equal","discovered","things","began","seek","relationship","existed","did","know","mathematical","terms","using","names","axioms","finally","developed","perfect","demonstrations","come","thirtysecond","proposition","euclid"],"answer":"Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid."},{"words":["ludwig","von","beethoven","mastered","elements","arithmetic","addition","subtraction","thirteenyearold","boy","befriended","tried","unsuccessfully","teach","simple","multiplication","division"],"answer":"Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division."},{"words":["emile","zola","poor","student","school","aix","different","largely","different","combinations","intelligences","recognize","i","think","better","chance","dealing","appropriately","problems","face","world"],"answer":"Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world."},{"words":["greatest","thing","world","direction","moving"],"answer":"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving."},{"words":["powers","inside","discover","use","make","dreamed","imagined"],"answer":"There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become."},{"words":["i","know","i","appear","world","i","like","boy","playing","sea","shore","diverting","finding","smoother","pebble","prettier","shell","ordinary","greater","ocean","truth","lay","undiscovered"],"answer":"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."},{"words":["important","respect","man","fortunate","poor","responsibility","god"],"answer":"In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less."},{"words":["honest","poor","forget","poverty","honest","rich","forget"],"answer":"The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it."},{"words":["having","poor","shame","ashamed"],"answer":"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."},{"words":["painless","poverty","better","embittered","wealth"],"answer":"Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth."},{"words":["great","privilege","poverty","happy","unenvied","healthy","physic","secure","guard","obtain","bounty","nature","great","wealthy","compelled","procure","help","art"],"answer":"It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art."},{"words":["basis","optimism","sheer","terror"],"answer":"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."},{"words":["poor","man","does","know","intrinsic","worth","tends","measure","relative","value","man","financial","wealth","values","financial","net","worth","poorer","poor","man","values","intrinsic","self","worth"],"answer":"Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth."},{"words":["noble","manner","poor","does","know","rich"],"answer":"There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich."},{"words":["fields","fruitful","starving","men","moved","roads","granaries","children","poor","grew","rachitic"],"answer":"The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic."},{"words":["true","poverty","does","come","god"],"answer":"True poverty does not come from God."},{"words":["ashamed","poverty","equally","proud","wealth"],"answer":"He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth."},{"words":["distressed","external","pain","thing","estimate","power","revoke","moment"],"answer":"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."},{"words":["know","pains","power","know","pleasures","seeking","pains","power","real","pleasures","imaginary"],"answer":"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary."},{"words":["imbecility","men","inviting","impudence","power"],"answer":"The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power."},{"words":["meaning","life","meaning","man","gives","life","unfolding","powers"],"answer":"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers."},{"words":["better","permanent","income","fascinating"],"answer":"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."},{"words":["measure","man","does","power"],"answer":"The measure of a man is what he does with power."},{"words":["powerful","power"],"answer":"Most powerful is he who has himself in his power."},{"words":["praise","common","people","generally","false","follows","vain","virtuous"],"answer":"Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous."},{"words":["paradox","pride","","makes","men","ridiculous","prevents"],"answer":"There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."},{"words":["praise","beginning","agreeable","receive","favor","comes","great","quantities","regard","debt","merit","extort"],"answer":"Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort."},{"words":["real","satisfaction","praise","afford","repeated","aloud","agrees","whispers","conscience","showing","endeavored","deserve","vain"],"answer":"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."},{"words":["undeserved","praise","causes","pangs","conscience","later","undeserved","blame","probably","reason","power","judgment","completely","exposed","praised","unjustly","underestimated"],"answer":"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."},{"words":["i","young","i","elderly","friend","used","ask","stay","country","religious","man","read","prayers","assembled","household","morning","crossed","pencil","passages","praised","god","said","vulgar","praise","people","faces","gentleman","believe","god","ungentlemanly","like"],"answer":"When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it."},{"words":["people","agree","i","feel","i","wrong"],"answer":"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."},{"words":["man","desires","praise","reassured","quit","doubting","indifferent","applause","confident","success"],"answer":"A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success."},{"words":["prayer","simplest","definition","merely","wish","turned","godward"],"answer":"A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward."},{"words":["pray","distress","need","pray","fullness","joy","days","abundance"],"answer":"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."},{"words":["prayer","does","change","god","changes","prays"],"answer":"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."},{"words":["words","fly","thoughts","remain","belowbrwords","thoughts","heaven"],"answer":"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.<br>Words without thoughts never to heaven go."},{"words":["i","son","immigrant","i","experienced","bigotry","intolerance","prejudice","instead","allowing","thing","embitter","i","took","spurs","strenuous","effort"],"answer":"I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort."},{"words":["prejudice","squints","looks","lies","talks"],"answer":"Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks."},{"words":["i","believe","tries","think","things","honestly","soon","recognize","unworthy","fatal","traditional","bias","negroes","man","good","combat","deeply","rooted","prejudice","courage","set","example","words","deed","watch","lest","children","influenced","racial","bias"],"answer":"I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias."},{"words":["i","born","contemporaries"],"answer":"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"},{"words":["greatest","noblest","pleasure","men","world","discover","new","truths","shake","old","prejudices"],"answer":"The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices."},{"words":["respecting","man","long","unconscious","extent","strength","prejudices"],"answer":"There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices."},{"words":["prejudice","conjurer","imaginary","wrongs","strangling","truth","overpowering","reason","making","strong","men","weak","weak","men","weaker","god","large","hearted","charity","bearth","things","believe","things","hope","things","endure","things","thinks","evil"],"answer":"Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which \"bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things,\" which \"thinks no evil.\""},{"words":["prisoner","experiences","eliminate","prejudices","","just","recognize"],"answer":"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them."},{"words":["forming","judgment","lay","hearts","void","foretaken","opinions","whatsoever","said","measured","wrong","rule","like","jaundice","appears","yellow"],"answer":"In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow."},{"words":["suffer","prejudice","eye","determine","heart"],"answer":"Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart."},{"words":["prejudice","reasoning","fools"],"answer":"Prejudice is the reasoning of fools."},{"words":["want","nail","shoe","lose","want","shoe","horse","lose","want","horse","rider","lost","overtaken","slain","enemy","want","care","horseshoe","nail"],"answer":"For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail."},{"words":["unless","prepared","profit","chance","opportunity","make","ridiculous","great","occasion","valuable","proportion","educated","make","use"],"answer":"Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."},{"words":["children","past","future","enjoy","present","","seldom","happens"],"answer":"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us."},{"words":["shallow","know"],"answer":"Only the shallow know themselves."},{"words":["i","recommend","care","minutes","hours","care"],"answer":"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."},{"words":["finish","day","begin","interpose","solid","wall","sleep","temperance"],"answer":"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."},{"words":["talk","inexorable","laws","governing","life","individuals","societies","remain","convinced","human","affairs","fortuitous","believe","inevitability","death","difficulty","deciphering","present","detecting","seeds","things","come","germinate","eyes","attuned","seeing","inevitable"],"answer":"However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable."},{"words":["think","little","time","present","anticipate","future","slow","view","hasten","onward","recall","past","stay","swiftly","gone","thoughtless","wander","hours","regardless","moment","actually"],"answer":"We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own."},{"words":["present","joy","sorrow","chief"],"answer":"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief."},{"words":["today","tomorrow","worried","yesterday"],"answer":"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."},{"words":["work","victory"],"answer":"Work is victory."},{"words":["i","know","reasonable","doubt","regardless","doing","pump","long","hard","enthusiastically","sooner","later","effort","bring","forth","reward"],"answer":"This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward."},{"words":["pride","defeats","end","bringing","man","seeks","esteem","reverence","contempt"],"answer":"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."},{"words":["truth","rarely","pure","simple"],"answer":"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."},{"words":["hear","decent","pride","proud","noble","pride","laudable","pride","decent","ought","ashamed","god","set","forth","deformity","noble","god","resists","determined","abase","laudable","god","abominable"],"answer":"We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable."},{"words":["diabolical","trio","existing","natural","man","implacable","inextinguishable","cooperative","consentaneous","pride","envy","hate","pride","makes","fancy","deserve","goods","possess","envy","admired","overlooked","hate","bestowed","diminishes","sum","think"],"answer":"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves."},{"words":["pride","peer","president","hell"],"answer":"Pride the first peer and president of hell."},{"words":["pride","breakfasted","plenty","dined","poverty","supped","infamy"],"answer":"Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."},{"words":["pride","seldom","delicate","mean","advantages"],"answer":"Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages."},{"words":["cure","pride","virtuous","nation","pure","religion"],"answer":"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."},{"words":["pride","does","wish","owe","vanity","does","wish","pay"],"answer":"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."},{"words":["pride","like","laudanun","poisonous","medicines","beneficial","small","injurious","large","quantities","man","pleased","personal","sense"],"answer":"Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others."},{"words":["proud","learning","greatest","ignorance"],"answer":"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance."},{"words":["football","mistake","combines","worst","elements","american","life","violence","committee","meetings"],"answer":"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings."},{"words":["rise","glory","sink","pride"],"answer":"We rise in glory as we sink in pride."},{"words":["merely","knows","right","principles","equal","loves"],"answer":"He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them."},{"words":["noble","life","principles","fashioned"],"answer":"Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it."},{"words":["fine","things","mean","day","think","favorable","circumstances","time","surely","present","time","speak","word","appreciation","sympathy","generous","deed","forgive","fault","thoughtless","friend","sacrifice","self","little","today","day","express","noblest","qualities","mind","heart","worthy","thing","long","postponed","use","godgiven","abilities","enrichment","fortunate","today","make","life","","significant","worthwhile","present"],"answer":"There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will."},{"words":["tomorrow","day","idlers","work","fool","reform","mortal","men","lay","hold","heaven"],"answer":"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven."},{"words":["hardest","work","world","yesterday"],"answer":"The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday."},{"words":["grandest","laws","law","progressive","development","wide","sweep","things","men","grow","wiser","grow","older","societies","better"],"answer":"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."},{"words":["progress","based","universal","innate","desire","organism","live","income"],"answer":"All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."},{"words":["ought","anxious","encourage","innovation","case","doubtful","improvement","old","advantages","new","established","understood"],"answer":"We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood."},{"words":["furious","activity","substitute","understanding"],"answer":"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."},{"words":["progress","unfolding","like","vegetable","bud","instinct","opinion","knowledge","plant","root","bud","fruit","trust","instinct","end","render","reason"],"answer":"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."},{"words":["world","owes","onward","impulses","men","ill","ease","happy","man","inevitably","confines","ancient","limits"],"answer":"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."},{"words":["curious","note","old","seamargins","human","thought","subsiding","century","reveals","new","mystery","build","monsters","used","hide"],"answer":"It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves."},{"words":["peculiar","prerogative","individual","making","daily","advances","sciences","makes","advances","morality","mankind","making","continual","progress","proportion","universe","grows","older","human","race","course","ages","considered","man","ceases","live","learn"],"answer":"By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn."},{"words":["true","law","race","progress","development","civilization","pauses","march","conquest","overthrown","barbarian"],"answer":"The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian."},{"words":["thou","ought","nice","superstition","keeping","thy","promises","equally","cautious","making"],"answer":"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."},{"words":["know","true","value","time","snatch","seize","enjoy","moment","idleness","delay","procrastination","till","tomorrow","today"],"answer":"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."},{"words":["promptitude","duty","good","manners","favorable","fortune","reputation","influence","usefulness","little","attention","energy","form","habit","make","easy","delightful"],"answer":"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."},{"words":["prosperity","prepare","change","adversity","hope"],"answer":"In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one."},{"words":["opera","guy","gets","stabbed","instead","bleeding","sings"],"answer":"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."},{"words":["world","endured","continual","prosperity"],"answer":"Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity."},{"words":["harder","direct","man","prosperity","easily","managed","adversity"],"answer":"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."},{"words":["feels","ills","fear","fortune","smiles","doubly","cautious","lest","destruction","come","remorseless","fall","unpitied"],"answer":"Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied."},{"words":["short","sentences","drawn","long","experiences"],"answer":"Short sentences drawn from long experiences."},{"words":["proverbs","literature","reason","statements","absolute","truth","qualification","like","sacred","books","nation","sanctuary","intuitions"],"answer":"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions."},{"words":["proverbs","world","thought","gold","coin","world","business","","great","value","small","compass","equally","current","people","proverb","false","coin","counterfeit","cases","false","proves","value","true"],"answer":"Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true."},{"words":["scripture","vouches","solomon","wisest","men","proverbs","prove","seven","wise","men","greece","famous","wisdom","world","acquired","fame","single","sentence","consisting","words"],"answer":"The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words."},{"words":["nature","rewards","punishment","","consequences"],"answer":"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences."},{"words":["man","purpose","like","ship","rudder","","waif","man","purpose","life","having","throw","strength","mind","muscle","work","god","given"],"answer":"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you."},{"words":["walking","distance","time"],"answer":"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."},{"words":["ought","look","unless","derive","useful","lessons","past","errors","purpose","profiting","dearbrought","experience"],"answer":"We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience."},{"words":["quality","accident","result","high","intention","effort","intelligent","direction","skillful","execution","represents","wise","choice","alternatives"],"answer":"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."},{"words":["things","considered","prevent","quarrels","ascertained","disputing","terms","things","secondly","examine","differ","worth","contending"],"answer":"Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about."},{"words":["false","quarrels","true","valor"],"answer":"In false quarrels there is no true valor."},{"words":["sudden","bold","unexpected","question","doth","times","surprise","man","lay","open"],"answer":"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."},{"words":["important","thing","stop","questioning","curiosity","reason","existing","help","awe","contemplates","mysteries","eternity","life","marvelous","structure","reality","tries","merely","comprehend","little","mystery","day","lose","holy","curiosity"],"answer":"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."},{"words":["scientist","person","gives","right","answers","asks","right","questions"],"answer":"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."},{"words":["error","truth","shrinks","inquiry"],"answer":"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."},{"words":["man","machines","answer","questions","provided","facts","profusely","stored","able","make","machine","ask","questions","ability","ask","right","question","half","battle","finding","answer"],"answer":"Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer."},{"words":["write","wise","saying","live","forever"],"answer":"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever."},{"words":["beware","man","knows","answer","understands","question"],"answer":"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."},{"words":["expert","knows","answers","","ask","right","questions"],"answer":"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."},{"words":["apothegms","portable","wisdom","quintessential","extracts","thought","feelings"],"answer":"Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings."},{"words":["proverb","short","sentence","based","long","experience"],"answer":"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."},{"words":["prepare","mind","forcible","appeal","opening","quotation","symphony","precluding","chords","tones","harmonize"],"answer":"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize."},{"words":["adventitious","beauty","poetry","felt","greater","delight","verse","given","happy","quotation","poem"],"answer":"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem."},{"words":["thing","saying","good","thing","quote"],"answer":"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."},{"words":["anecdotes","maxims","rich","treasures","man","world","knows","introduce","fit","place","conversation"],"answer":"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."},{"words":["benefactor","mankind","contracts","great","rules","life","short","sentences","easily","impressed","memory","recur","habitually","mind"],"answer":"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."},{"words":["i","quote","order","better","express"],"answer":"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."},{"words":["apothegms","thinking","minds","seeds","spring","vast","fields","new","thought","cultivated","beautified","enlarged"],"answer":"Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged."},{"words":["proverb","answers","sermon","fails","wellcharged","pistol","execution","barrel","gunpowder","idly","exploded","air"],"answer":"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air."},{"words":["fine","words","i","wonder","stole"],"answer":"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."},{"words":["read"],"answer":"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."},{"words":["happy","laid","youth","held","fast","fortune","genuine","passionate","love","reading"],"answer":"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."},{"words":["man","fond","books","usually","man","lofty","thought","elevated","opinions"],"answer":"The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions."},{"words":["riches","indies","crowns","kingdom","europe","laid","feet","exchange","love","reading","i","spurn"],"answer":"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all."},{"words":["time","i","read","excellent","work","just","i","gained","new","friend","i","read","book","i","perused","resembles","meeting","old"],"answer":"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."},{"words":["amusements","idleness","reading","fatigue","attention","world","swarms","writers","wish","studied","read"],"answer":"One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read."},{"words":["care","luxuries","necessities","care"],"answer":"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."},{"words":["entertainment","cheap","reading","pleasure","lasting"],"answer":"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."},{"words":["read","books","men","chiefly","thyself","thou","questionable","use","commentary","severe","friend","gloss","sweet","lipped","flatterer","profit","distasteful","truth","deceitful","sweetness"],"answer":"Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness."},{"words":["asleep","read","improve","mind","morals","regulate","conduct"],"answer":"One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct."},{"words":["analysis","kills","spontaneity"],"answer":"Analysis kills spontaneity."},{"words":["world","constructed","wish","enjoy","pleasures","endure","pains","like"],"answer":"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other."},{"words":["truth","necessarily","stranger","fiction","fiction","creation","human","mind","congenial"],"answer":"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."},{"words":["pursuit","truth","shall","set","free","","catch"],"answer":"The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it."},{"words":["wrong","suffering","wrong"],"answer":"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong."},{"words":["truth","summit","justice","application","affairs"],"answer":"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."},{"words":["superstition","premature","explanation","overstays","time"],"answer":"A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time."},{"words":["astonishing","force","purity","wisdom","requires","human","clear","falsehoods"],"answer":"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."},{"words":["stupendous","fact","stand","midst","reality","far","wonderful"],"answer":"The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do."},{"words":["live","truth","instead","professing"],"answer":"Live truth instead of professing it."},{"words":["fully","grasp","import","true","statement","clear","notion","opposite","untrue","statement"],"answer":"We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be."},{"words":["error","needs","support","government","truth","stand"],"answer":"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."},{"words":["i","believe","unarmed","truth","unconditional","love","final","word","reality","right","temporarily","defeated","stronger","evil","triumphant"],"answer":"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."},{"words":["truth","wears","different","face","everybody","tedious","wait","till","agreed"],"answer":"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."},{"words":["generation","fool","speak","truth","sees"],"answer":"In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it."},{"words":["occasions","undoubtedly","better","incur","loss","make","gain"],"answer":"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain."},{"words":["lonely","life","man","leads","aware","truths","times"],"answer":"It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times."},{"words":["nature","deceives","deceive"],"answer":"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."},{"words":["good","situation"],"answer":"There is a good side to every situation."},{"words":["perception","truth","detection","analogy"],"answer":"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy."},{"words":["morality","given","time","place","majority","happen","like","immorality","dislike"],"answer":"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."},{"words":["offers","furnish","sure","test","ask","test","sure","test","sure"],"answer":"If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure."},{"words":["reason","reason","actualities","possibilities"],"answer":"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities."},{"words":["things","reason","discover","certainty","ease","insufficiency"],"answer":"There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency."},{"words":["great","poverty","great","riches","hear","reason"],"answer":"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason."},{"words":["truths","easy","understand","discovered","point","discover"],"answer":"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."},{"words":["human","reason","like","drunken","man","horseback","set","tumbles"],"answer":"Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other."},{"words":["reason","know","soon","believe","utterly","reason"],"answer":"Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason."},{"words":["strong","reasons","make","strong","actions"],"answer":"Strong reasons make strong actions."},{"words":["speaketh","reason","speaks","conscience","certain","man","serves","god","good","conscience","serves","reason"],"answer":"He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason."},{"words":["regret","deeply","live","afresh"],"answer":"To regret deeply is to live afresh."},{"words":["relationships","matter","wealth","fame","power","prestige","success","standards","opinions","world","happiness","constantly","eluded"],"answer":"Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him."},{"words":["constant","kindness","accomplish","sun","makes","ice","melt","kindness","causes","misunderstanding","mistrust","hostility","evaporate"],"answer":"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate."},{"words":["intellectually","religious","emotions","creative","conservative","attach","readily","current","view","world","consecrate"],"answer":"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it."},{"words":["shocks","men","religion","flocks","pretensions","religious","people"],"answer":"Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people."},{"words":["man","certainly","stark","mad","make","flea","makes","gods","dozens"],"answer":"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens."},{"words":["matters","religion","matters","controversy","argue","lover","taste","condemn","just","knowing","human","passion"],"answer":"Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."},{"words":["religion","holds","solution","problems","human","relationship","parents","children","nation","nation","sooner","later","man","decide","worships","power","power","god"],"answer":"Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God."},{"words":["growing","suspicion","world","needs","religion","cover","days","week"],"answer":"There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week."},{"words":["religion","meant","bread","daily","use","cake","special","occasions"],"answer":"Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions."},{"words":["slightest","sorrow","sin","sufficient","produce","amendment","greatest","insufficient"],"answer":"The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not."},{"words":["late","long","aware","faults","bear","impatiently"],"answer":"It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently."},{"words":["mere","sorrow","weeps","sits","repentance","repentance","sorrow","converted","action","movement","new","better","life"],"answer":"Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life."},{"words":["impossibility","impossible","universe"],"answer":"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."},{"words":["good","intention","fixed","resolute","","bent","high","holy","ends","shall","means","moment","obstacles","opposition","make","like","fabled","specterships","sail","fastest","teeth","wind"],"answer":"A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us \"like the fabled specter-ships,\" which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind."},{"words":["need","strong","order","good","necessary","order","evil"],"answer":"If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil."},{"words":["good","inclination","rude","draught","virtue","finishing","strokes","disposed","degrees","perfect","disposed","quickly","deface"],"answer":"A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it."},{"words":["sin","multitude","responsibility","guilt","great","truly","personal","wrong"],"answer":"Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong."},{"words":["misconstruction","bitterness","spared","thinks","naturally","owes","ought","expect"],"answer":"Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them."},{"words":["million","reasons","failure","single","excuse"],"answer":"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."},{"words":["man","condemned","free","thrown","world","responsible","does"],"answer":"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."},{"words":["human","beings","endowed","freedom","choice","shuffle","responsibility","shoulders","god","nature","shoulder"],"answer":"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us."},{"words":["friend","help","real","friend","help","body"],"answer":"A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body."},{"words":["outer","space","place","person","breeding"],"answer":"Outer space is no place for a person of breeding."},{"words":["freedom","package","deal","","comes","responsibilities","consequences"],"answer":"Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences."},{"words":["pauses","amidst","study","pauses","idleness","process","goes","likened","digestion","food","seasons","repose","powers","gathering","strength","new","efforts","land","lies","fallow","recovers","tillage"],"answer":"There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage."},{"words":["certainly","work","required","man","thing","sacred","idleness","","cultivation","fearfully","neglected"],"answer":"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."},{"words":["best","best"],"answer":"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."},{"words":["action","ask","bring","monkeys","result","action","blessing","heavy","burden"],"answer":"Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?"},{"words":["life","exempt","public","haunt","finds","tongues","trees","books","running","brooks","sermons","stones","good"],"answer":"Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."},{"words":["god","nothingness","shows"],"answer":"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."},{"words":["art","medicine","consists","amusing","patient","nature","cures","disease"],"answer":"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."},{"words":["does","violet","tint","end","orange","tint","begins","distinctly","difference","colors","exactly","does","blending","enter","sanity","insanity"],"answer":"Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity."},{"words":["wise","man","does","grieve","things","rejoices"],"answer":"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."},{"words":["knows"],"answer":"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."},{"words":["richest","content"],"answer":"He is richest who is content with the least."},{"words":["science","introduced","children","poorly","poorly","children","turned","away","science","develop","lifelong","antipathy","far","worse","condition","introduced","science"],"answer":"Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all."},{"words":["fight","world","world"],"answer":"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."},{"words":["art","science","meeting","point","method"],"answer":"Art and science have their meeting point in method."},{"words":["science","statement","truth"],"answer":"Science is but the statement of truth found out."},{"words":["experimentation","prove","right","single","experiment","prove","wrong"],"answer":"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."},{"words":["concern","man","fate","form","chief","technical","endeavor","forget","midst","diagrams","equations"],"answer":"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."},{"words":["science","does","know","debt","imagination","goethe","did","believe","great","naturalist","exist","faculty"],"answer":"Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty."},{"words":["children","born","true","scientists","spontaneously","experiment","experience","reexperience","select","combine","test","seeking","order","experiences","","mostest","leastest","smell","taste","bite","touchtest","hardness","softness","springiness","roughness","smoothness","coldness","warmness","heft","shake","punch","squeeze","push","crush","rub","try","pull","things","apart"],"answer":"Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - \"which is the mostest? which is the leastest?\" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart."},{"words":["solutions","step","cure","know","disease"],"answer":"Solutions- The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is."},{"words":["i","know","i","appear","world","i","like","boy","playing","sea","shore","diverting","finding","smoother","pebble","prettier","shell","ordinary","greater","ocean","truth","lay","undiscovered"],"answer":"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."},{"words":["realismhas","reality"],"answer":"Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else."},{"words":["science","credit","goes","man","convinces","world","man","idea","occurs"],"answer":"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."},{"words":["human","science","uncertain","guess"],"answer":"Human science is an uncertain guess."},{"words":["art","worth","doing","genius","science","moderate","capacity","contribute","supreme","achievement"],"answer":"Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement."},{"words":["penicillin","product","accidental","discovery","discovery","knowledge","developed","certain","scientists","definite","goals","mind","chance","pastuer","wrote","favors","prepared","mind","mind","prepared","scientific","training","technological","knowhow","awareness","social","needs"],"answer":"Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. \"Chance,\" Pastuer wrote, \"favors only the prepared mind.\" The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs."},{"words":["science","welldigested","good","sense","reason"],"answer":"Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason."},{"words":["scientific","fulfillment","raises","new","questions","asks","surpassed","outdated"],"answer":"Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated."},{"words":["described","science","orderly","arrangement","moment","facts"],"answer":"Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts."},{"words":["ultimate","security","understanding","reality"],"answer":"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."},{"words":["little","brain","educational","toy"],"answer":"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."},{"words":["counselor","fool","client"],"answer":"He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client."},{"words":["law","law","doth","need"],"answer":"Who to himself is law, no law doth need."},{"words":["want","selfrestraint","men","engaged","lives","fighting","difficulties","making","rendering","success","impossible","crossgrained","ungentleness","whilst","gifted","make","way","achieve","success","simple","patience","equanimity","selfcontrol"],"answer":"For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control."},{"words":["deceived","enemies","betrayed","friends","insupportable","content","treated"],"answer":"To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated."},{"words":["know","thyself","said","old","philosopher","improve","thyself","saith","new","great","object","time","waste","passions","gifts","things","external","leave","cultivate","carry","eternal","progress"],"answer":"\"Know thyself,\" said the old philosopher, \"improve thyself,\" saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond."},{"words":["need","loved","cost","single","relationship","truly","central","crucial","life","relationship","self","people","know","lifetime","lose"],"answer":"You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose."},{"words":["inside","outside","change","way"],"answer":"Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it."},{"words":["oneself","lies","world","know","look","learn","door","key","hand","earth","key","door","open"],"answer":"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."},{"words":["let","sands","time","lunch"],"answer":"Let not the sands of time get in your lunch."},{"words":["things","examine","thyself","rules","i","acting","strength","glory","faith","humility","selfdenial","love","god","man","actions"],"answer":"By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?"},{"words":["live","live","learn","live"],"answer":"Live to live and you will learn to live"},{"words":["diamond","shows","brilliancy","prismatic","colors","stand","good","deal","cutting","smoothing"],"answer":"Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing."},{"words":["charge","life","longer","need","ask","permission","people","society","large","ask","permission","veto","power","life"],"answer":"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."},{"words":["work","salvation","depend"],"answer":"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."},{"words":["let","man","respected","individual","man","idolized"],"answer":"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."},{"words":["easy","world","live","opinion","world","easy","solitude","selfcentered","finished","man","midst","crowd","keeps","perfect","sweetness","independence","solitude",""],"answer":"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. "},{"words":["games","played","play","games"],"answer":"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves."},{"words":["trust","know","live"],"answer":"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."},{"words":["fall","love","stick","face"],"answer":"Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face."},{"words":["silent","people","generally","think","highly"],"answer":"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."},{"words":["hardest","arithmetic","master","enables","count","blessings"],"answer":"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."},{"words":["difficult","make","man","miserable","feels","worthy","claims","kindred","great","god"],"answer":"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."},{"words":["selflove","opposed","love","people","really","love","favor","doing","people","favor","vise","versa"],"answer":"Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa."},{"words":["despises","esteems","selfdespiser"],"answer":"He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."},{"words":["confidence","gives","birth"],"answer":"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others."},{"words":["creation","better","means","selfexpression","possession","creating","possessing","life","revealed"],"answer":"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."},{"words":["disgrace"],"answer":"No one can disgrace us but ourselves."},{"words":["human","origin","station","deserves","respect","respect","respect"],"answer":"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves."},{"words":["people","respect","sharply","offended","deep","private","heart","man","respects"],"answer":"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself."},{"words":["think","highly","world","takes","estimate"],"answer":"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate."},{"words":["acknowledgment","","wish","merit","known","acknowledge","people"],"answer":"Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people."},{"words":["sleep","loom","life","stops","pattern","weaving","sun","went","weaving","comes","morning"],"answer":"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."},{"words":["shall","time","time"],"answer":"We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is."},{"words":["inch","time","bought","inch","gold"],"answer":"An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold."},{"words":["observation","people","ahead","time","waste"],"answer":"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."},{"words":["think","standing","wearily","helplessly","center","circle","bristling","tasks","burdens","problems","annoyance","responsibilities","rushing","moment","dozen","different","things","dozen","problems","solve","dozen","strains","endure","overdriven","overburdened","overtired","common","mental","picture","totally","false","crowded","life","existence","true","picture","life","imagine","hour","glass","desk","connecting","bowl","bowl","tube","grain","sand","pass","time","true","picture","life","super","busy","day","crowded","hours","come","moment","time","way","come","day","bring","tasks","problems","strains","invariably","come","single","file","want","gain","emotional","poise","remember","hourglass","grains","sand","dropping"],"answer":"Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one."},{"words":["moment","817","means","","important","happens","starting","time","daily","train","ancestors","odd","eccentric","instant","significance","","did","exist","inventing","locomotive","watt","stevenson","inventors","time"],"answer":"To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time."},{"words":["look","mournfully","past","comes","wisely","improve","present","thine","forth","meet","shadowy","future","fear","manly","heart"],"answer":"Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart."},{"words":["set","priorities","goals","major","successful","living","lies","ability","things","reason","major","goals","achieved","spend","time","doing","second","things"],"answer":"Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first."},{"words":["day","pockets"],"answer":"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."},{"words":["half","life","spent","trying","time","rushed","life","trying","save"],"answer":"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."},{"words":["greatest","loss","time","delay","expectation","depend","future","let","present","power","look","forward","depends","chance","relinquish","certainty","uncertainty"],"answer":"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."},{"words":["lost","wealth","replaced","industry","lost","knowledge","study","lost","health","temperance","medicine","lost","time","gone","forever"],"answer":"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."},{"words":["habit","asking","doing","handled"],"answer":"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else."},{"words":["time","invested","improving","cuts","time","wasted","disapproving"],"answer":"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others."},{"words":["save","time","lengthen","life"],"answer":"To save time is to lengthen life."},{"words":["men","tongues","govern","multitudes","govern","tongues"],"answer":"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."},{"words":["open","mouth","purse","cautiously","stock","wealth","reputation","shall","repute","great"],"answer":"Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."},{"words":["love","tradition","weakened","nation","strengthened","nations","hour","peril"],"answer":"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."},{"words":["esteems","trifles","trifler","esteems","conclusions","drawn","advantage","philosopher"],"answer":"He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher."},{"words":["kernel","felt","hogshead","drop","water","helps","swell","ocean","spark","help","light","world","small","feeble","poor","service","think","act"],"answer":"One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act."},{"words":["little","little","collected","great","deal","heap","barn","consists","single","grains","drop","drop","makes","inundation"],"answer":"A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation."},{"words":["wise","man","thinks","troubles","purpose","doing","times","thinks","things"],"answer":"The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things."},{"words":["man","trusts","men","make","fewer","mistakes","distrusts"],"answer":"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."},{"words":["i","phoned","dad","tell","i","stopped","smoking","called","quitter"],"answer":"I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter."},{"words":["error","addresses","passions","prejudices","truth","scorns","mean","intrigue","addresses","understanding","conscience"],"answer":"Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience."},{"words":["sublimest","things","world","plain","truth"],"answer":"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."},{"words":["let","manifest","truths","answer","questions"],"answer":"We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them."},{"words":["time","goes","new","remoter","aspects","truth","discovered","seldom","fitted","creeds","changeless"],"answer":"As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless."},{"words":["greatest","homage","pay","truth","use"],"answer":"The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it."},{"words":["funny","people","despise","platitudes","usually","truest","thing","going","thing","pretty","true","gets","platitude"],"answer":"Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude."},{"words":["truth","tough","break","like","bubble","touch","nay","kick","day","like","football","round","evening"],"answer":"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."},{"words":["atheism","denial","truth"],"answer":"The only atheism is the denial of truth."},{"words":["according","democritus","truth","lies","water","serves","mirror","objects","reflected","i","heard","philosophers","seeking","truth","pay","homage","seen","image","adored","instead"],"answer":"According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead."},{"words":["way","joking","tell","truth","funniest","joke","world"],"answer":"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."},{"words":["i","like","work","fascinates","i","sit","look","hours"],"answer":"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."},{"words":["wishes","truth","sincerely","wishes","truth"],"answer":"Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth."},{"words":["understand","little","need","world","know","loss"],"answer":"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."},{"words":["people","high","life","hardened","wants","distresses","mankind","surgeons","bodily","pains"],"answer":"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."},{"words":["incomprehensible","thing","world","comprehensible"],"answer":"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."},{"words":["let","understood","starting","patient","conquest","difficulties","rise","regular","legitimate","channels","business","enterprise","essential","securing","success","seek","essential","preparation","mind","requisite","enjoyment","successes","retaining","gained","day","day","week","week","month","month","year","year","work","progress","gain","strength","symmetry","nerve","knowledge","success","patiently","bravely","worked","shall","come","prepared","receive"],"answer":"Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it."},{"words":["talk","understanding","surely","takes","place","mind","listens","completely","mind","heart","nerves","ears","attention"],"answer":"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."},{"words":["folks","understand","folks","hate"],"answer":"Folks never understand the folks they hate."},{"words":["defects","understanding","like","face","grow","worse","grow","old"],"answer":"The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old."},{"words":["understand","clearly","great","need","appears","great","use","appears","small","need","small","use","obvious","use","things","times","according","necessity","thereof"],"answer":"Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof."},{"words":["choose","happy","sad","whichever","choose","really","responsible","make","happy","matter","people","taught","accept","true"],"answer":"You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true."},{"words":["income","tax","liars","american","people","golf"],"answer":"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."},{"words":["rich","gifts","wax","poor","givers","prove","unkind"],"answer":"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."},{"words":["live","vastly","complex","society","able","provide","multitude","material","things","good","people","beginning","suspect","paid","high","spiritual","price","plenty"],"answer":"We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty."},{"words":["right","right","importance"],"answer":"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."},{"words":["values","things","differently","words","place","value","affects","lives","moment","moment","change","values","person","values","diamonds","willing","trade","gallon","diamonds","drink","water","save","life","desert","means","value","relative","thing","depending","need","perceived","need","people","argue","violently","fight","perceived","value","idea","later","entirely","different","view","point","value"],"answer":"Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value."},{"words":["value","valueless","trick","know","recognize"],"answer":"Never value the valueless. The trick is to know how to recognize it."},{"words":["thing","moderately","good","good","ought","moderation","temper","virtue","moderation","principle","vice"],"answer":"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."},{"words":["group","theories","school","group","values","culture","civilization","new","way","living","men"],"answer":"On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men."},{"words":["people","pay","things"],"answer":"Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing."},{"words":["people","care","thought","taste","good","clever","amiable"],"answer":"People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable."},{"words":["today","gas","station","cash","register","open","toilets","locked","think","toilet","paper","worth","money"],"answer":"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money."},{"words":["ask","advice","cases","ask","flattery"],"answer":"To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery."},{"words":["live","vanity","unreasonably","expect","die","mortification"],"answer":"Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification."},{"words":["offended","vanity","great","separator","social","life"],"answer":"Offended vanity is the great separator in social life."},{"words":["general","ingratitude","complaint","misplaced","vanity","direct","villains","capable","willful","ingratitude","everybody","capable","thinking","hath","deserves","thinks","hath","received","deserves"],"answer":"The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves."},{"words":["vanity","makes","things","inclination","reason"],"answer":"Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason."},{"words":["vanity","quicksand","reason"],"answer":"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."},{"words":["able","circumstances","practice","things","constitutes","perfect","virtue","things","gravity","generosity","soul","sincerity","earnestness","kindness"],"answer":"To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."},{"words":["virtue","state","war","live","combat"],"answer":"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."},{"words":["organized","crime","america","takes","billion","dollars","year","spends","little","office","supplies"],"answer":"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."},{"words":["virtuous","man","world","hold","head","confidence","honor","shame","world","world"],"answer":"Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him."},{"words":["war","like","racket","pays","high","dividends","cost","operations","transferred","people","profit"],"answer":"War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit."},{"words":["best","soldiers","warlike"],"answer":"The best soldiers are not warlike."},{"words":["master","class","declared","wars","subject","class","fought","battles","master","class","gain","lose","subject","class","gain","lose","","especially","lives"],"answer":"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives."},{"words":["mind","kill","war","whit","better","commit","ordinary","murder"],"answer":"To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder."},{"words":["gun","warship","launched","rocket","fired","signifies","final","sense","theft","hunger","fed","cold","clothed","world","arms","spending","money","spending","sweat","laborers","genius","scientists","hopes","children","way","life","true","sense","cloud","threatening","war","humanity","hanging","cross","iron"],"answer":"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."},{"words":["soldiers","begin","think","remain","ranks"],"answer":"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks."},{"words":["play","safe","create","world","utmost","insecurity"],"answer":"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity."},{"words":["modern","war","die","like","dog","good","reason"],"answer":"But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason."},{"words":["getting","caught","mother","invention"],"answer":"Getting caught is the mother of invention."},{"words":["long","governments","set","example","killing","enemies","private","citizens","occasionally","kill","theirs"],"answer":"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s"},{"words":["i","seen","war","wish"],"answer":"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."},{"words":["quality","american","life","pace","quantity","american","goods","country","afford","materially","rich","spiritually","poor"],"answer":"The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."},{"words":["war","profession","man","live","honorably","employment","soldier","reap","profit","obliged","false","rapacious","cruel"],"answer":"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."},{"words":["pressing","problem","away","warfare","method","solving","conflicts","national","groups","society","different","views","society","run"],"answer":"Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run."},{"words":["nations","overcome","mutual","fear","distrust","somber","shadow","thrown","world","meet","confidence","good","settle","possible","differences","easily","able","establish","lasting","peace"],"answer":"If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace."},{"words":["necessary","make","war","things","maladies","body","ignorances","mind","passions","body","seditions","city","discords","families"],"answer":"It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families."},{"words":["war","cruel","refine"],"answer":"War is cruel and you cannot refine it."},{"words":["wars","begin","minds","man","minds","love","compassion","built","defenses","peace"],"answer":"Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace."},{"words":["long","war","regarded","wicked","fascinations","looked","vulgar","cease","popular"],"answer":"As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."},{"words":["greatest","paradox","speak","civilized","warfare"],"answer":"The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of \"civilized warfare.\""},{"words":["seeking","wisdom","thou","wise","imagining","thou","hast","attained","thou","fool"],"answer":"In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool."},{"words":["wise","man","looks","men","does","horses","comparisons","title","wealth","place","consider","harness"],"answer":"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness."},{"words":["prosperous","continually","hard","exactly"],"answer":"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be."},{"words":["rich","sick","fully","feel","impotence","wealth"],"answer":"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."},{"words":["class","mammon","worshippers","test","conservatism","radicalism","attitude","takes","respect","accumulated","wealth","tends","preserve","wealth","wealthy","called","conservatism","favors","matter","called","socialism"],"answer":"We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism."},{"words":["rich","heart","wealth","ugly","beggar"],"answer":"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."},{"words":["thing","wrong","immortality","tends","forever"],"answer":"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."},{"words":["multiplies","riches","multiplies","cares"],"answer":"He who multiplies riches multiplies cares."},{"words":["wealth","necessity","curse","poverty","blessing","wholesome","easy","abundance","better","extreme","better","manhood","daily","comfort","culture","hospitality","charity","blessing","certainly","blessing","accepted","trust"],"answer":"Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust."},{"words":["rich","shows","rich","just","encouragement","industry","enterprise"],"answer":"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."},{"words":["main","source","wealth","goodness","affections","generous","qualities","god","admires","world","greed"],"answer":"The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed."},{"words":["thou","desire","purchase","honor","thy","wealth","consider","wealth","thine","thy","labor","got","let","thy","wisdom","oppression","let","repentance","restore","thy","parent","left","let","thy","virtues","deserve","shall","thy","honor","safer","better","cheaper"],"answer":"If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper."},{"words":["hopes","republic","forever","tolerate","undeserved","poverty","selfserving","wealth"],"answer":"The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth."},{"words":["man","rich","proportion","number","things","afford","let"],"answer":"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."},{"words":["ordinary","riches","stolen","real","riches","soul","infinitely","precious","things","taken"],"answer":"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."},{"words":["great","fortune","hands","fool","great","misfortune"],"answer":"A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune."},{"words":["matter","cynical","impossible"],"answer":"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."},{"words":["people","lose","health","getting","wealth","lose","wealth","gaining","health"],"answer":"Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health."},{"words":["difference","happiness","wisdom","thinks","happiest","man","really","thinks","wisest","generally","greatest","fool"],"answer":"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."},{"words":["time","ripens","things","man","born","wise"],"answer":"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."},{"words":["thinks","wisest","generally"],"answer":"He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so."},{"words":["wisdom","save","collection","platitudes","fifty","current","proverbial","sayings","trite","threadbare","embody","concentrated","experience","race","man","orders","life","according","teachings","far","wrong","man","attained","inner","harmony","pondering","experience","world","began","pass"],"answer":"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire."},{"words":["wise","man","does","grieve","thing","rejoices"],"answer":"A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."},{"words":["sense","wanting","wanting"],"answer":"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,"},{"words":["knowledge","communicated","wisdom","man","live","filled","sustained","utter","teach"],"answer":"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."},{"words":["wise","speaks"],"answer":"Everyone is wise until he speaks."},{"words":["wiser","foolish","farseeing","years","ago","imperfect","things","turn","century","remarked","wisdom","virtue","increased","rapidly","need"],"answer":"Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both."},{"words":["men","born","mediocre","men","achieve","mediocrity","men","mediocrity","thrust"],"answer":"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."},{"words":["wise","accommodate","contingencies","life","fool","contends","struggling","like","swimmer","stream"],"answer":"He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream."},{"words":["behold","son","little","wisdom","world","ruled"],"answer":"Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled."},{"words":["wisdom","principal","thing","wisdom","thy","getting","understanding"],"answer":"Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding."},{"words":["ninetenths","wisdom","consists","wise","time"],"answer":"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."},{"words":["wisdom","does","precept","life","","firmness","mind","mastery","appetite","teaches","talk","make","words","actions","color"],"answer":"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color."},{"words":["practical","wisdom","learned","school","experience","precepts","instruction","useful","far","discipline","real","life","remain","nature","theory"],"answer":"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."},{"words":["wisdom","right","use","knowledge","know","wise","men","know","great","deal","greater","fools","fool","great","fool","knowing","fool","know","use","knowledge","wisdom"],"answer":"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."},{"words":["wise","man","avoids","evil","anticipating"],"answer":"The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it."},{"words":["water","drink","wise","man"],"answer":"Water is the only drink for a wise man."},{"words":["thing","worth","having","thing","worth","cheating"],"answer":"A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for."},{"words":["characteristic","wisdom","desperate","things"],"answer":"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."},{"words":["hard","man","just","sad","wise"],"answer":"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."},{"words":["best","mind","wisest","mind","mind","produces","wisdom"],"answer":"The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom."},{"words":["wisdom","sale","open","market","stupid","ask","price"],"answer":"If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price."},{"words":["wise","men","silent","know"],"answer":"Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."},{"words":["buy","education","wisdom","gift","god"],"answer":"You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."},{"words":["resolute","mind","wishing","step","doing","wish","thing","impossible"],"answer":"To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible."},{"words":["wit","brushwood","judgment","timber","gives","greatest","flame","yields","durable","heat","meeting","make","best"],"answer":"Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire."},{"words":["words","mind","winged"],"answer":"By words the mind is winged."},{"words":["words","sever","hearts","sharp","swords","words","point","sting","heart","course","life"],"answer":"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life."},{"words":["order","preserve","selfrespect","necessary","lie","cheat"],"answer":"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat."},{"words":["makes","great","difference","force","sentence","man"],"answer":"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no."},{"words":["finest","words","world","vain","sounds","understand"],"answer":"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them."},{"words":["equate","growing","mistrust","words","mature","person","trusts","eyes","ears","irrationality","manifests","upholding","word","evidence","eyes","children","savages","true","believers","remember","far","seen","heard"],"answer":"One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard."},{"words":["word","crystal","transparent","unchanging","skin","living","thought","vary","greatly","color","content","according","circumstances","time","used"],"answer":"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."},{"words":["poor","affluent","communicating","words","talk","millions","culturally","deprived","refer","access","good","libraries","bookstores","museums","centers","performing","arts","deprived","words","built","words","opens","doors","children","words","licked","start","legion","young","wordless","urban","rural","slums","years","old","know","meaning","hundreds","words","middleclass","people","assume","familiar","younger","children","seen","parents","read","book","magazine","heard","words","used","rudimentary","ways","related","physical","needs","functions","cultural","fallout","caused","vicious","circle","ignorance","poverty","reinforced","perpetuated","children","deprived","words","school","dropouts","dropouts","deprived","hope","behave","delinquently","amateur","censors","blame","delinquency","reading","immoral","books","magazines","fact","inability","read","basic","trouble"],"answer":"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."},{"words":["word","arrow","","let","loose","does","return"],"answer":"It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return."},{"words":["seldom","speaks","calm","welltimed","word","strike","dumb","loquacious","genius","hero"],"answer":"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."},{"words":["words","like","baseball","bats","used","maliciously"],"answer":"Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously."},{"words":["half","controversies","world","verbal","ones","brought","plain","issue","brought","prompt","termination","parties","engaged","perceive","substance","agreed","difference","principles","need","dispute","need","prove","need","define","events","let","left","dispute","left","prove"],"answer":"Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove."},{"words":["words","seen","state","mind","character","disposition","speaker"],"answer":"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."},{"words":["change","mend","words","spoken","recalled"],"answer":"What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled."},{"words":["kind","good","deed","say","words","deeds"],"answer":"It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."},{"words":["colors","fade","temples","crumble","empires","fall","wise","words","endure"],"answer":"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."},{"words":["language","abstract","construction","learned","dictionary","makers","arising","work","needs","ties","joys","affections","tastes","long","generations","humanity","bases","broad","low","close","ground"],"answer":"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground."},{"words":["thoughts","fails","words","imagination","waiting","elbow","teach","new","language","words"],"answer":"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words."},{"words":["thing","word"],"answer":"One thing you can give and still keep is your word."},{"words":["written","word","erased","","spoken","word"],"answer":"The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word."},{"words":["i","believe","professional","wrestling","clean","world","fixed"],"answer":"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed."},{"words":["hard","jobs","easy","jobs","care"],"answer":"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."},{"words":["work","philosophy","good","way","life"],"answer":"Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life."},{"words":["i","look","man","happy","question","success","looks","work","reply"],"answer":"I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply."},{"words":["working","man","happy","man","idle","man","miserable","man"],"answer":"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."},{"words":["folks","paid","paid"],"answer":"Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do."},{"words":["impossible","word","dictionary","fools"],"answer":"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."},{"words":["man","does","work","love","work","money","likely","make","money","fun","life"],"answer":"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life."},{"words":["men","feel","insulted","proposed","employ","throwing","stones","wall","throwing","merely","earn","wages","worthily","employed"],"answer":"Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now."},{"words":["successful","man","usually","lot","unsuccessful","years"],"answer":"Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years."},{"words":["people","habit","worry","save","drowning","bank","dry","sun","hot","chocolate","muffins","wonder","catching","cold"],"answer":"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."},{"words":["worry","sin","sort","worry","permissible","worry","worries"],"answer":"To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries."},{"words":["worst","thing","possibly","worrying","thinking"],"answer":"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."},{"words":["happy","man","broken","chains","hurt","mind","given","worrying"],"answer":"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."},{"words":["people","anticipating","trouble","way","manage","enjoy","sorrows","really","happen"],"answer":"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."},{"words":["perpetual","worry","place","ahead","time","","cemetery"],"answer":"Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery."},{"words":["good","lord","gave","brain","works","fast","moment","i","worry","year","achieve"],"answer":"The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve."},{"words":["thanks","interstate","highway","possible","travel","coast","coast","seeing"],"answer":"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything."},{"words":["battalions","angels","protect","dreaded","dangers","long","lifetime","dangers","come"],"answer":"It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything."},{"words":["night","account","infirmity","i","mastered","today","passions","opposed","temptation","resisted","virtue","acquired","vices","abort","brought","day","shrift"],"answer":"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."},{"words":["egotism","castrate","benefactors"],"answer":"Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors."},{"words":["summed","man","speaks","loss","accusations","believed","praises"],"answer":"When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never."},{"words":["conqueror","king","knower","truth","let","knower","awaken","drive","horses","mind","emotions","physical","body","pathway","king","chosen"],"answer":"The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen."},{"words":["man","acquires","ability","possession","mind","possession","justly","entitled"],"answer":"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."},{"words":["learn","realize","world","going","demand","good","deal","important","entitled","demand","","hard","lesson"],"answer":"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson."},{"words":["man","know","mankind","knowing","selfknowledge","property","man","passions","play","ponders","results"],"answer":"A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results."},{"words":["man","animal","existence","problem","solve"],"answer":"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."},{"words":["self","knowledge","understanding","working","functions","machine","man","free","govern","remain","slave"],"answer":"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."},{"words":["getting","touch","true","self","priority"],"answer":"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."},{"words":["want","truly","successful","invest","knowledge","need","unique","factor","focus","persevere","success","blossom"],"answer":"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."},{"words":["true","knowledge","knowledge","power"],"answer":"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."},{"words":["know"],"answer":"We know what we are, but not what we may be."},{"words":["selfreverence","self","knowledge","selfcontrol","lead","life","sovereign","power"],"answer":"Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power."},{"words":["man","wake","famous","wake"],"answer":"Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself."},{"words":["thank","god","men","fly","lay","waste","sky","earth"],"answer":"Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!"},{"words":["highest","manifestation","life","consists","governs","actions","thing","subject","direction","somewhat","dead","thing"],"answer":"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."},{"words":["best","lightning","rod","protection","spine"],"answer":"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine."},{"words":["important","duty","urged","entering","great","theater","life","simple","loyalty","best","convictions"],"answer":"No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."},{"words":["room","man","force","makes","room"],"answer":"There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many."},{"words":["obligation","lifetime","true","true","impossible","mark","fake","messiah"],"answer":"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. 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The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."},{"words":["i","think","virtue","restrain","tongue","approaches","nearest","gods","knows","silent","right"],"answer":"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."},{"words":["unspoken","word","does","harm"],"answer":"The unspoken word never does harm."},{"words":["better","wither","silent","say","things","value","silence","sooner","throw","pearl","hazard","idle","useless","word","say","little","words","great","deal"],"answer":"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."},{"words":["elegance","language","power","simplicity","straight","forwardness","write","speak","speak","think","inferior","speak","coarser","usual","superiors","finer","say","rules","prudence","say"],"answer":"Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. 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Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life."},{"words":["cynicism","unpleasant","way","saying","truth"],"answer":"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."},{"words":["scientific","theory","i","like","best","rings","saturn","composed","entirely","lost","airline","luggage"],"answer":"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."},{"words":["struggle","complexities","avoid","simplicities"],"answer":"We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities."},{"words":["life","frittered","away","simplify","simplify"],"answer":"Our life is frittered away by detail. 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The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation."},{"words":["open","mouths","open","ears"],"answer":"There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears."},{"words":["luck","rulers","men","think"],"answer":"What luck for rulers that men do not think."},{"words":["safe","slander","best","way","pay","attention","live","innocence","let","world","talk"],"answer":"No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk."},{"words":["slander","vice","strikes","double","blow","wounding","commits","committed"],"answer":"Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed."},{"words":["frequently","honesty","integrity","man","disposed","smile","shrug","good","generous","actions","sunk","oblivion","distrustful","look","stamped","imputation","bad","motives","mysterious","seasonable","whisper"],"answer":"How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!"},{"words":["kinds","smiles","having","distinct","character","announce","goodness","sweetness","betray","sarcasm","bitterness","pride","soften","countenance","languishing","tenderness","brighten","spiritual","vivacity"],"answer":"There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity."},{"words":["sneer","sign","heartless","malignity"],"answer":"A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity."},{"words":["social","intercourse","derived","highest","enjoyments","life","free","interchange","sentiments","mind","acquires","new","ideas","frequent","exercise","powers","understanding","gains","fresh","vigor"],"answer":"From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor."},{"words":["company","preferable","bad","apt","catch","vices","virtues","disease","far","contagious","health"],"answer":"No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."},{"words":["let","expects","class","society","prosper","highest","degree","distress","try","face","smile","pinched"],"answer":"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched."},{"words":["kind","chameleons","taking","hue","","hue","moral","character"],"answer":"We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us."},{"words":["certain","wise","bearing","ignorant","carriage","caught","men","diseases","let","heed","society","mingle","little","like"],"answer":"It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it."},{"words":["exempt","passions","tormented","pleasing","solitude"],"answer":"To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude."},{"words":["solitude","shows","society","shows"],"answer":"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."},{"words":["love","retirement","ages","adhered","closely","minds","enlarged","knowledge","elevated","genius","enjoyed","generally","supposed","confer","happiness","forced","seek","shades","privacy"],"answer":"The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. 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The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul."},{"words":["man","goes","farthest","generally","willing","dare","surething","boat","gets","far","shore"],"answer":"The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. 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If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory."},{"words":["man","feels","throbbing","power","undertakes","possibly","faculties","say","amen","doing","unqualified","approval","efforts","","happiness","success"],"answer":"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say \"amen\" to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success."},{"words":["achieve","success","applause","applause","hear","advice","concerning","applause","enjoy","quite","believe"],"answer":"If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it."},{"words":["learns","success","success","plateau","rests","breath","look","straight","difficult","path","does","climb","plateau"],"answer":"One never learns by success. 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That is all."},{"words":["success","generally","accepted","sense","term","means","opportunity","experience","realize","maximum","forces"],"answer":"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."},{"words":["mistake","suppose","men","succeed","success","oftener","succeed","failures","precept","study","advice","example","taught","failure"],"answer":"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."},{"words":["achieves","success","great","venture","solved","problem","came","helped","helped","powers","known","unknown","time","set","voyage","kept","going","regardless","obstacles","met"],"answer":"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. 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Try to please everybody.\""},{"words":["secret","success","thought","success"],"answer":"The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success."},{"words":["live","suffer","die","somebody","suffering","precious","shared"],"answer":"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."},{"words":["man","suffer","real","afflictions","invents"],"answer":"Man has to suffer. 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A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted."},{"words":["i","think","i","define","taste","faculty","soul","discerns","beauties","author","pleasure","imperfections","dislike"],"answer":"I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike."},{"words":["truly","elegant","taste","generally","accompanied","excellency","heart"],"answer":"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."},{"words":["good","taste","flower","good","sense"],"answer":"Good taste is the flower of good sense."},{"words":["people","like","sort","thing","sort","thing","like"],"answer":"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."},{"words":["gossip","personal","confession","malice","imbecility","low","frivolous","dirty","business","neighborhoods","rages","like","pest","churches","split","pieces","neighbor","enemies","life","let","young","avoid","cure"],"answer":"Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. 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The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by \"learning\" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information."},{"words":["understanding","heart","teacher","esteemed","highly","looks","appreciation","brilliant","teachers","gratitude","touched","human","feeling","curriculum","necessary","raw","material","warmth","vital","element","growing","plant","soul","child"],"answer":"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. 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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society."},{"words":["man","infinitely","complicated","thoughts"],"answer":"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."},{"words":["grand","thoughts","come","heart"],"answer":"All grand thoughts come from the heart."},{"words":["vacant","minds","uses","pity","waste","firstclass","bodies"],"answer":"Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them."},{"words":["movements","far"],"answer":"All movements go too far."},{"words":["halfbaked","ideas","ideals","heated"],"answer":"Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough."},{"words":["thinking","things","ages","knowing","things","remains"],"answer":"Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done."},{"words":["brain","bubbles","phrases","hard","work","collect","thoughts"],"answer":"The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts."},{"words":["today","thoughts","brought","tomorrow","thoughts","escape","results","thoughts"],"answer":"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. 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New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities."},{"words":["change","does","necessarily","assure","progress","progress","implacably","requires","change","education","essential","change","education","creates","new","wants","ability","satisfy"],"answer":"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. 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Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."},{"words":["possible","scrupulously","honest","man","grow","rich","fast","unscrupulous","dishonest","success","truer","kind","earned","fraud","injustice","man","time","unsuccessful","honest","better","lose","save","character","character","fortune"],"answer":"It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune."},{"words":["falsely","attribute","men","determined","character","","putting","yesterdays","","averaging","","presume","know","pity","man","character","support","","worse","large","family","","silent","poor"],"answer":"We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed."},{"words":["endures","personal","qualities"],"answer":"Nothing endures but personal qualities."},{"words":["men","genius","admired","men","wealth","envied","men","power","feared","men","character","trusted"],"answer":"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted"},{"words":["rich","man","charity","rogue","difficult","matter","prove","fool"],"answer":"A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool."},{"words":["pity","distress","human","relieve","godlike"],"answer":"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."},{"words":["rich","poor","refuse"],"answer":"We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep."},{"words":["oh","man","sings","work"],"answer":"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."},{"words":["ounce","cheerfulness","worth","pound","sadness","serve","god"],"answer":"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."},{"words":["habit","looking","best","event","worth","thousand","pounds","years"],"answer":"The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years."},{"words":["i","fool","make","merry","experience","make","sad"],"answer":"I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad."},{"words":["cheerfulness","greases","axles","world"],"answer":"Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world."},{"words":["350","varieties","shark","counting","loan","pool"],"answer":"There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool."},{"words":["best","inheritance","parent","children","minutes","time","day"],"answer":"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day."},{"words":["grown","men","learn","little","children","hearts","little","children","pure","great","spirit","things","older","people","miss"],"answer":"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."},{"words":["duty","children","make","happy","wronged","good","make"],"answer":"The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that."},{"words":["parents","busy","physical","rearing","children","miss","glory","parenthood","just","grandeur","trees","lost","raking","leaves"],"answer":"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."},{"words":["finest","inheritance","child","allow","make","way","completely","feet"],"answer":"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."},{"words":["children","nice","observers","perceive","sligthest","defects","general","govern","children","forgive"],"answer":"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."},{"words":["innately","children","little","true","realistic","anxiety","run","brink","water","climb","window","sill","play","sharp","objects","short","bound","damage","worry","charge","wholly","result","education","allowed","make","instructive","experiences"],"answer":"Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves."},{"words":["unhappiness","child","accumulates","sees","end","dark","tunnel","thirteen","weeks","term","just","thirteen","years"],"answer":"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."},{"words":["good","judgment","comes","experience","experience","comes","bad","judgment"],"answer":"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."},{"words":["god","sends","children","purpose","merely","race","","enlarge","hearts","make","unselfish","kindly","sympathies","affection","shoulds","higher","aims","faculties","extended","enterprise","exertion","bring","round","firesides","bright","faces","happy","smiles","loving","tender","hearts","soul","blesses","great","father","day","gladdened","earth","little","children"],"answer":"God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children"},{"words":["obvious","facts","grownups","child","forgotten","like","child"],"answer":"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."},{"words":["beloved","aunt","ask","i","told","i","treated","children","tell","little","animals","comes","accept","eternally","established"],"answer":"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."},{"words":["efforts","provide","advantages","actually","produced","busiest","competitive","highly","pressured","overorganized","generation","youngsters","history"],"answer":"In all our efforts to provide \"advantages\" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."},{"words":["i","believe","view","life","affected","stern","kindly","influences","early","childhood","threw","timidity","reserve","drew","genial","confidence","sympathy","fellow","creatures"],"answer":"I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures."},{"words":["viewing","child","solely","immature","person","way","escaping","comforting"],"answer":"Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him"},{"words":["training","children","profession","know","waste","time","order","save"],"answer":"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it"},{"words":["consistency","requires","ignorant","today","year","ago"],"answer":"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."},{"words":["save","old","man","save","unit","save","boy","save","multiplication","table"],"answer":"You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table."},{"words":["people","studied","different","methods","bringing","children","come","conclusion","good","mother","fathers","instinctively","feel","like","doing","babies","best"],"answer":"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."},{"words":["children","wonderful","taste","","depending","course","agree"],"answer":"Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us."},{"words":["person","events","life","drawn","choose"],"answer":"Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."},{"words":["decide","level","choice","responsibility","life","control","life"],"answer":"To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life."},{"words":["trust","instinct","end","render","reason"],"answer":"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."},{"words":["key","universe","choose"],"answer":"The key to your universe is that you can choose."},{"words":["decidedly","say","tempted","evil","highway","ruin","loses","respect","tempt","pliant","tool","victim","evil","designs"],"answer":"He that cannot decidedly say, \"No,\" when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs."},{"words":["greatest","power","person","possesses","power","choose"],"answer":"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."},{"words":["free","knows","hands","power","decide"],"answer":"He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide."},{"words":["person","free","choice","free","obey","disobey","natural","laws","choice","determines","consequences","did","escape","consequences","choices"],"answer":"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."},{"words":["people","exactly","really","want","","admit"],"answer":"People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not."},{"words":["i","think","choice","possible","moment","long","live","sacrifice","choice","rest","falls","away","second","choice","does","exist","beware","talk","sacrifice"],"answer":"I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice."},{"words":["say","things","wrong","sinful","things","pleasant","profitable","good","hinder","clog","grand","duties","chief","work","shall","understand","fully","life","worth","make"],"answer":"When we can say \"no\" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it."},{"words":["life","comes","time","make","decision","i","make","forget"],"answer":"All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it."},{"words":["successful","leaders","courage","action","hesitate"],"answer":"Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate."},{"words":["people","change","minds","wrong","second","time"],"answer":"Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too."},{"words":["poet","sings","sing","great","poet","does","great","poet","sings","chooses","sing"],"answer":"No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing"},{"words":["achievement","goal","assured","moment","commit"],"answer":"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."},{"words":["honesty","best","image"],"answer":"Honesty is the best image."},{"words":["voice","lord","voice","common","sense","shared"],"answer":"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is"},{"words":["knowledge","common","sense","says","lee","folly","method","waste","kindness","fanaticism","religion","death","common","sense","wisdom","method","power","clarity","beneficence","religion","virtue","life","peace"],"answer":"\"Knowledge, without common sense,\" says Lee, is \"folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.\" But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace."},{"words":["pound","learning","requires","pounds","common","sense","apply"],"answer":"One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it."},{"words":["common","sense","knack","seeing","things","doing","things","ought"],"answer":"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."},{"words":["handful","common","sense","worth","bushel","learning"],"answer":"A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."},{"words":["biggest","shortage","shortage","common","sense"],"answer":"The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense."},{"words":["art","conversation","consist","listening","politely","talking","agreeably"],"answer":"The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably."},{"words":["good","ill","conversation","advertisement","time","open","mouth","let","men","look","mind","clothed","neat","busineswise"],"answer":"For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?"},{"words":["americans","realize","chances","mental","improvement","lose","inveterate","habit","keeping","conversations","room"],"answer":"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."},{"words":["conversation","art","man","mankind","competitors"],"answer":"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors."},{"words":["men","quickly","love","speak","spoke","discover","souls","separated","phantoms","delusions"],"answer":"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."},{"words":["greater","rudeness","interrupt","current","discourse"],"answer":"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."},{"words":["good","rub","polish","brain"],"answer":"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others"},{"words":["extremists","think","communication","means","agreeing"],"answer":"Extremists think \"communication\" means agreeing with them."},{"words":["know","hate","interrupted","doing"],"answer":"You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me."},{"words":["compare","improve"],"answer":"To compare is not to improve."},{"words":["feels","compassion","insane"],"answer":"He who feels no compassion will become insane."},{"words":["individual","fear","apathy","passes","unfortunate","life","account"],"answer":"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account."},{"words":["flower","bird","sight","small","screen","lines","moving","child","sits","motionless","pushing","keyboard","finger","learning","environment","mentally","rich","perceptually","extremely","impoverished","smells","tastes","wind","bird","song","unless","computer","programmed","produce","electronic","tweets","connection","soil","water","sunlight","warmth","actual","learning","environment","autistic","quality","impoverished","sensually","emotionally","socially"],"answer":"There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially."},{"words":["believe","officially","denied"],"answer":"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."},{"words":["concentration","motto","","honesty","industry","concentration"],"answer":"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."},{"words":["gather","resources","rally","faculties","marshal","energies","focus","capacities","mastery","field","endeavor"],"answer":"Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor."},{"words":["thing","time","i","simply","tackle","problem","concentrate","efforts","i","doing","moment"],"answer":"You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment."},{"words":["mind","likened","house","necessary","rid","house","furnishings","essential","success"],"answer":"Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success."},{"words":["add","power","life","concentrating","energies","limited","set","targets"],"answer":"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."},{"words":["confidence","absolute","entire","dangerous","occasions","man","ought","say","conceal","little","revealed","secret","friend","said","think","safe","make","privy","particulars"],"answer":"All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars."},{"words":["confidence","plant","slow","growth","especially","aged","bosom"],"answer":"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom."},{"words":["prepared","able","feel","confident"],"answer":"If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident."},{"words":["reason","emotion","antagonists","like","struggle","struggle","opposing","ideas","values","automatic","unconscious","manifests","form","feeling"],"answer":"Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling."},{"words":["glory","fleeting","obscurity","forever"],"answer":"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."},{"words":["duality","reflected","classical","modern","literature","reason","versus","passion","mind","unconscious","moments","lives","verbalintellect","suggests","course","heart","intuition"],"answer":"This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the \"unconscious.\" There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our \"heart\" or intuition, another."},{"words":["nonconformists","travel","rule","bunches","rarely","nonconformist","goes","woe","inside","nonconformist","clique","does","conform","nonconformity"],"answer":"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity"},{"words":["idea","men","created","free","equal","true","misleading","men","created","different","lose","social","freedom","individual","autonomy","seeking","like"],"answer":"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."},{"words":["good","conscience","soul","health","body","preserves","constant","ease","serenity","countervails","calamities","afflictions","befall"],"answer":"A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without."},{"words":["far","important","preserve","unblemished","conscience","compass","object","great"],"answer":"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."},{"words":["good","conscience","fears","witness","guilty","conscience","solicitous","solitude","honest","let","world","know","does","signify","know","long","i","know","miserable","slights","witness"],"answer":"A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness."},{"words":["i","hate","outdoors","outdoors","car"],"answer":"I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is."},{"words":["conscience","men","anticipation","opinions"],"answer":"Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others."},{"words":["concerned","conscience","whispers","people","shout"],"answer":"One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout."},{"words":["conscience","like","baby","sleep"],"answer":"A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can."},{"words":["happens","according","consciousness","law","consciousness"],"answer":"\"It happens to each according to his consciousness,\" is the Law of Consciousness."},{"words":["drift","education","goes","persuade","world","present","consciousness","worlds","consciousness","exist"],"answer":"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist."},{"words":["consciousness","powers","augments"],"answer":"Consciousness of our powers augments them."},{"words":["results","expect","consequences"],"answer":"Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get."},{"words":["valuable","things","life","measured","monetary","terms","really","important","things","houses","lands","stocks","bonds","automobiles","real","state","friendships","trust","confidence","empathy","mercy","love","faith"],"answer":"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith."},{"words":["yes","nirvanah","leading","sheep","green","pasture","putting","child","sleep","writing","line","poem"],"answer":"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."},{"words":["years","ago","rudyard","kipling","gave","address","mcgill","university","montreal","said","striking","thing","deserves","remembered","warning","students","overconcern","money","position","glory","said","day","meet","man","cares","things","know","poor"],"answer":"Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: \"Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.\""},{"words":["learn","pleased","wealth","far","makes","beneficial","poverty","having","care","obscurity","unenvied"],"answer":"Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied."},{"words":["contented","contented","like"],"answer":"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."},{"words":["feel","place","life","solves","half","problems","contentment"],"answer":"To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment."},{"words":["think","yesterday","regret","tomorrow","fear","near","contentment"],"answer":"When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment."},{"words":["try","fellow","agreeably","surprised","things","come","way","","pleasing","things"],"answer":"Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you."},{"words":["strength","cooperate","weakness","beg"],"answer":"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."},{"words":["imagination","leads","understand","quickly","people","grant","requests","requests","appeal","selfinterest","practically"],"answer":"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after."},{"words":["thing","redeem","mankind","cooperation"],"answer":"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."},{"words":["beautiful","compensations","life","sincerely","try","help","helping"],"answer":"It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."},{"words":["theology","briefly","universe","dictated","signed"],"answer":"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."},{"words":["ideal","man","bears","accidents","life","dignity","grace","making","best","circumstances"],"answer":"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."},{"words":["splendid","achieved","dared","believe","inside","superior","circumstance"],"answer":"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance"},{"words":["conscience","root","true","courage","man","brave","let","obey","conscience"],"answer":"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."},{"words":["resolute","young","fellow","steps","great","bully","world","takes","boldly","beard","surprised","comes","hand","tied","scare","away","timid","adventurers"],"answer":"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."},{"words":["courage","special","kind","knowledge","knowledge","fear","ought","feared","fear","ought","feared"],"answer":"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."},{"words":["significant","battles","waged","self"],"answer":"All of the significant battles are waged within the self."},{"words":["courage","danger","half","battle"],"answer":"Courage in danger is half the battle."},{"words":["takes","far","courage","kill","takes","make","wake","time","harder","stay"],"answer":"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out."},{"words":["world","admired","man","knows","bear","unhappiness","courage"],"answer":"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."},{"words":["true","courage","brutal","force","vulgar","heroes","firm","resolve","virtue","reason"],"answer":"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."},{"words":["far","impressive","discover","good","qualities","help"],"answer":"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."},{"words":["courage","absence","fear","conquest"],"answer":"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it."},{"words":["courtesy","heart","allied","love","springs","purest","courtesy","outward","behavior"],"answer":"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."},{"words":["cowards","falter","danger","overcome","nobly","dare"],"answer":"Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare."},{"words":["thing","makes","creative","person","creative"],"answer":"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it."},{"words":["enviable","writers","quite","unanalytically","unconsciously","realized","different","facets","nature","able","live","work","ascendant"],"answer":"The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant."},{"words":["lyric","germ","nucleus","deserves","respect","bids","man","ponder","create","dim","corner","refuge","consolations","society","fellow","creatures","does","provide"],"answer":"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."},{"words":["idea","feat","association"],"answer":"An idea is a feat of association."},{"words":["given","situation","everybody","said","representative","culture","victim"],"answer":"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it."},{"words":["dehumanize","man","returning","nature","","making","rocks","vegetation","animals","","turning","machine","natural","mechanical","opposite","uniquely","human","nature","selfmade","machine","perfectly","automated","automated","machine","create","image","nature","create","machine","learning","inner","working","nature","man","builder","machines","obvious","man","domesticated","animals","plants","acquired","selfmade","machines","production","food","power","beauty"],"answer":"You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power, and beauty."},{"words":["creative","powers","just","easily","turn","destructive","rests","solely","moral","personality","apply","good","things","bad","lacking","teacher","supply","place"],"answer":"Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place"}]