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I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

Actually Away Doing Force
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Split seconds of actions that change lives forever

Split Seconds Actions Change life
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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Central Contemporary Describe Facts
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

Election Politicians Actors Power
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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
Act Last Prayer Reading
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

About Binary Book Character
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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Actor After Again Answer
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Away Behind Business Character
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Facts He His Imagination
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It's pretty much a given known fact in the industry that before I was successful, I wrote for other artists.

Artists Before Fact Given
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Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

According Breaking Dignified Everything
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I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Big Chain Cheap Deprive
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Facts Many Truth Truth Is
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I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

Around Constantly Distract Enough
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The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

Acts Measures Never Ourselves
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What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?
Acting Between Difference Jerk
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I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

Active Communities Conversations Ideas
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If you are selling love to people, you should also practice it.

Selling love People Practice
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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Financial markets Unpredictable Scenarios
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A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

Global economy Free movement Goods Services
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

Sum up Skills Survival Operating
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization

Investment decision Scientific hypothesis
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The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man’s basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act – and if necessary, to suffer and die – for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

Preservation Peace Freedom Right
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

History Inaction Indifference Silence
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Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.

Attractive Being Big BigGuy
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficent purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.

True leader Effective activity Inspire Wisdom
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Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Infuse Life Action Own future
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The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Greatest legacy Children Money Faith
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Echoes Education Controlled Manufactory
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Age Character Construct Does
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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

Know Familiar street Road Village
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Ultimate wisdom Beginnings Seed Universe
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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Contribution Forgiveness Healing Important
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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Fractured Full Goal Need
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Character Clue Complexion Fact
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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Actually Fear Give Liberated
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I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
Never Practice Seen Separate
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Attract Capacity Circumstances Either
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Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Day House Inspirational Just
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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Afterwards Be Kind Dark Day
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It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Cost Fraction Prevent Than
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Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

Aid Alone Any Calm
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In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.

Awarded Degree Discovery Doctor
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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Actually Being Comfortable People
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People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Associate Activity Anyone Behaves
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I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

Relate Woman Found Something
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Everything is acting.
Acting Art Everything
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Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.

Young people Economy Creative Imaginative
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The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone’s responsibility. And it must be everyone’s concern.

Impact Armed conflict Children Concern
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Always Character Complaint Cowardly
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