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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
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Uninteresting
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There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.
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Men
Patriotism
Nations
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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
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Beats
Neighborhood
Beat
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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
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New York
Faces
Games
People
Game Me Lost
Remind
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To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.
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Cameras
Gentleman
Oneself
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The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.
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Communism
Communist
Sin
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It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
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Burned
Martyr
Persons
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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
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Men
Commitment
Incapable
Lasting
Understood
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A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
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War
Critics
Wounded
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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.
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Commitment
Lasting Love
Strong
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We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
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Hack
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
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Government
Convenience
Demand
Function
Philosophy
Explain
Invent
Philosophies
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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Human Nature
Convention
Trace
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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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Politics
Political
Where You Come
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America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
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America
Distribution
Economic
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Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
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Men
Heart
Trying
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Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
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War
Battle
Fire
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To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
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Fashionable
Ideas
Thinking
Hardly
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A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
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Leader
Records
Unbroken
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A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
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Men
Evil
Harder
Looks
Unimportant
Life Good Man
Confess
Sum
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There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.
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Men
Children
Earth
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As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.
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Enemy
Names
Political
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The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.
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Reality
Sacrifice
World
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It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.
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America
Long
Winning
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The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.
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Destiny
Fate
Reality
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Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.
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Journey
Commitment
Degrees
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By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.
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Children
Mother
Real
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We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.
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New York
Cutting
Dog
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