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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Begins Company Education Finish
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I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

Also Always Diary Express
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

Abroad Been Exactly Flying
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I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.

Bad Bad Weather Came Covered
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I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

Got Loads Nephews Nieces
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Knowledge Makes Materials Mind
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

About Bad Doing Experience
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

Bald Exaggerate Having Head
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

Adult Brilliantly Car Drive
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I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

About Bad Bad People Before
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society

Human Imagination Conceive Possibility
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

Always Changing Evolution Growing
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

Alone Chickens Duck Ducks
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It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Ahead Hit Levels Life
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Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
Going Stop Tight Luminous
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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lead Dog Scenery.
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One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later

Demonstrated To art Emotion Future
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Nothing Demoralizing Adequate Income
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...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

Fail Luck Dream Still
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Poetry Prose Logic Mystery
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America isn't ready for President Hillary Clinton. It should never be.

America Clinton Hillary Never
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A small behavioral change can also lead to embracing a wider checklist of healthier choices.

Also Behavioral Change Choices
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Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn..
Force Nature Fade Stars
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When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Candle Edison Electric Electric Light
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Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Been Dust Established Example
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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Argument Ate Every Family
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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Belt Feather Head Over
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Admired Ambition American Average Boyfriend
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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Around Better Bloody Find
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Admiration Ahead Criticism Get
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Being Biggest Housewife Interest
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If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Admiration Ahead Get Get Married
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.

Apprentice Backyard Contestants Couple
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
Act Bridge Doctrine I Can
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

Bad Bad Habit Beats Because
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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

About Abstract Boy Certainly
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
Activist Become Big Big Mistake
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Fast Fossil Fossil Fuel Fuel
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

Collaboration Come Coming Cooperation
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

Baby Before Had Hand
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Always Any Because Common
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I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Been Better Cattle Change
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Benefits Conferred Gradually Taste better.
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Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Again Best Brightest Built
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Bark Birds Brush Centuries
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

All The Facts Anything Astonished Call
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From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

Common Companions Creator Creature
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Adventurous Armed Beasts Came
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One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Best Broad Climb Close
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