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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Journal Keep Longer Never
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The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life

Making Real friends Success Life
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Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Make Habit Critical Small things
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Did Give Good Good Writing
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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Bear Kind Trouble Time
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I am the freest author in the world.
Am Author I Am World
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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Accomplished Planned Enough
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Anyone Christianity Convert Did
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Wise Anger Flint Great
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Belief Believe God I Think
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Wrong fails because it is wrong. The wrongs, the untruths, are inconsistent with each other. They clash against each other and confute each other. They neutralize each other and are lost.

Wrong Fails Untruth Inconsistent
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Any Form Fundamentalism Opposed
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

Felt Had Head Lone
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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do

One Do Everything What
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Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.

Blow Trumpets Same thing Ask
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You need the living, loving heart of living, loving men and women to quicken other hearts, which can live too and love too, and, in their turn, will quicken others which are dying now.

Need Living Heart Quicken
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Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men.

Do well Conscious Leaders Men
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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.

One D Everything Grace
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Look up and not down; look out and not in; look forward and not back, and lend a hand.

Look up Down Forward Back
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It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
Brain Maybe Mechanism Motion
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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

Beaten Champions Chess Computers
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If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

Ambition Exploration Got Humans
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Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

Because Enterprise Expensive Frontier
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All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
Entire Full Names Particular
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In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

Any Bigger City Illusion
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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

Goes Lot Memorize School
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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Best Discoveries Expect Nature
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Animals Capacity Earth Empathize
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I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Doing Get Knowing Satisfaction
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Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.

Allowed Break Consequence Doing
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I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
Deaths Environments Fascinated Havoc
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I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

Enough Figure Intelligent Know
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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

Agree Democracy Efficient Everyone
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Book Conceive Generally Long
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The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Eclipse Solar Spectacle Total
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We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

Almost Cases Hard HardWork
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Added Change Couple Eventually
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Best Come Did Ever
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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Asked Because Bloody Get
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Always Artist Artistic Duty
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Always Art Beautiful Compliment
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I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

About Any Belief Believe
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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

Between Concentration Difference Feel
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I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Above Always Creation Had
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Art ArtForm Bad Changed
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Against Head Imagination Lack
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To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
Get Going How Idea
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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

Anymore Artistic Communal Corporate
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Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

Gets Give Hardest Make
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Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one.
Even Less Many Much
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