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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

After Author Becomes Been
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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

After Coming Family Frozen
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Author Difficult First Front
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Dogmatic Dread Forward Look
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I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Back Crisis Days Doing
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I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Circumstances Events Extraordinary ExtraordinaryCircumstances
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Had I Wonder Kissing Left
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I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

Any Bad Ever Felt
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I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

Got Never Outsiders Prom
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If I do a good job, people won’t care if I am green or have three heads.

Do Good job Care Green
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I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Finally reached Point Involved Shut up
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Forget all the mistakes you've made - it's time to forgive yourself.
Forget Forgive yourself Mistakes Time
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Those who don’t believe in Science herd the society to path of physical self destruction; Those who are addicted and obsessed with science pushed the society to the lane of spiritual self destruction.

Science Society Obsessed Spiritual
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Man Never Idle Advantage
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Backwards Better Child Committed
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Question Settle Time Influence
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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Of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful

Race Untrammeled Rigid adherence Fact
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Now at the end of a long avenue, but when he turned to, look for his followers not one was to be seen; the woods had closed instantly upon him as he had passed through. He was entirely alone, and utter

End Long avenue Followers Seen
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Sad truth Evil People Minds
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Most radical Revolutionary Conservative
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Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

Loving life Abroad Your hands Master
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Don’t you hate when a song has been out for a minute and it’s mad dope but you are the last to get on it

Song Minute Dope Mad
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Only crime Confront us Perplexity Radical evil
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

Old truth Applicable Stood
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In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Always Bad Every Good
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God can change your story at any gadamn time. Don't give up
God Change Story Don’t give up
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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

One Greatest Advantages Elite
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Adult All-Around Am Around
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

About Assassination Been Deep
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Activists Always Building Committed
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Atheists Authority Automatically Beliefs
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Because Belief Evaluate Even
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,

Mass leaders Power Lies Propaganda
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The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.

Possible metaphor Conceive Life Mind
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Bad Being Black Business
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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Widespread illiteracy Functional People stupid
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

Banning Course Intolerant Never
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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Casts Height Measure Mind
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength

Breaks Land Loaded Sea
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She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.

She thinks Killed Great sweep Mud
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lose it Never loved Breathing
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My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

Alive Always Been Dad
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Times My father Hated guns Wars
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I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

Born good Grown progressively Year
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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Reader Introductions Pleasure Kill
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If I had been on 'Ally McBeal,' I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show.

Ally Been Coming First
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I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

Become Boy Consumed Creation
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Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

Always Ambition Bad BadOne
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I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

Admire Bedrock Catholicism Had
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