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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Associate Bad Bad Men Combine
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Between In My Opinion Justice Liberty
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Eating Like Read Reflecting
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Bad Laws Sort Tyranny
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

Adopted Attitude Children Dare
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Adultery Forgives Gospel Never
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Africa America Ancestors Been
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Blatant Could Failure General
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Acknowledge Being Being Smart Books
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Dishonorable Few Few Things Misleading
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He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Adversity Knows Met Own
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution

Citizen Country Fight Leaders Life
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Accuracy Confidence Had Industry
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It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.

Billionaires Democratic Families Socialism
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We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

Brings Children Country Elderly
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Happy Both Children Get
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In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

Ever Feel Get Know
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Approach Child Difference Going
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Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Become Children Family Grown
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

Between Dealing Distinct Easily
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Advice Arm Children General
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Acting After Bear Boarding
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I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.

Considered Every Genre Happy
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Memory Nuns Poems Problems
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

Ballet Because Dying Felt
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Always Clutch Excuse Hearth
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Contrast Counterfeit Crises Deeply
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

Along Board Canoe Currents
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

Cooking Doing Either Getting
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

American American Society Dealing I Think
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Always Defend God Grants
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Bread Currency He Labor
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Bad Conviction Done Many
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Answerable By The People For The People Government
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Beings Ethics Evolution Goal
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

After Ahead Decided Fully
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Body Cells Community Inhabitants
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Contradictions God Life Me
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Achievement Fails Failures Finger
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Ahead Behind Better Kind
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Walking Adult Come Fact
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

History Ineffective Largely Most
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Gentle Gradual Hell Milestones
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