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In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Any Better Create Desired
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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Worth Intelligent Majority People
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Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

Most people Frightened Ready
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Mathematician Painter Poet Permanent
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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
Love beauty Shadow God
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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

Secret Night Prayer Grows
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All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

All night Trembled Death Life
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Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

Radiance My enthusiasms Poor courtyard
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Read books Privilege Life
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

God Write Comedy Bad actors
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Some luck Wanted Once you
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Nice things Funerals Sad Miss mine
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Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Beauty Worth thinking Mind Haircut
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I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

Afraid Deceased Gotten engrossed Book
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He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

Admired Never being Loss Words
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Never say anything bad about a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. By then he’s a mile away, you’ve got his shoes, and you can say whatever you want to.

Never say Bad Man Walked
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The living wander away, we don’t hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.

The living Hear Dead
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They did not weave their lives around yours. They had their own lives, which were mysterious to you.

Weave Live Around yours Mysterious
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

Good People Repay
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It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Real friends Aisle Society
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

A man Lives life Meets Licks it
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It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

Become Crusade Demonstrate Violent
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Away Been Got Gun
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Bad Begets Even Evil
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Carved Crooked Entirely Made
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Crooked Made Man Nothing
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

About American American Society Being
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It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Ahead Always Applied Basic
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Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Academic Becoming Cursed Discovered
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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Also Any Because Critical
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Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Actually Books Classics Find
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I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Books Brief Collected Composed
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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Because Excellent Find Followed
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Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Cannot Day Every Every Day
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Been Great Inventions Made
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What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

Add Appeared Art Attempt
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I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Any Convert Crucial Globe
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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

City Encourages Logic Madness
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I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Clear Head Idea Life
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I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

Better Bus College Come
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I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Accepting Am Enough Fortunate
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I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

Anyone AnyoneElse Because Characters
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

About Book Dog Drinking
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My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

Always Animal Collecting Creatures
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Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

Always Away Bad BadGuys
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Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

Someone looks Acts differently Ugly
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

Head Start twisting Envisioning
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What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

Almost Audience British Distinct
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Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Actually America Came Early
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