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Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
Best Climbed Like Mountain
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I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

Anything Bread Considered Days
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I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Determined Devote God Inventions
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Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Addictions Attempts Because Best
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I was taught that pain is bad.

Bad Was Pain Taught
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No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Any Ever Gentleman Lady
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I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

Addict Any Became Because
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Acquainted Adversity Becomes Being
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Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Addictions Beneath Control Disease
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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

About Army Book Church
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Clear Individual Lessons Life
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Afghanistan Even Even Now Form
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I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Activity Any Business Family
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

About Books Keep New
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I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Aware Bad Good Good And Bad
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Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Become Best Capable Direct
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I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Built Dad
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You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

You Know Songs Often
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I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

I've Had Lot Of
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I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.
Have Had Holiday And
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I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

Been Accustomed Being Famous
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The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

The Moment Doctor Told
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Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

Having Had Cancer Important
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Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

Gay Icons Have Some
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I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Have Always Had Separate
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I am in love with my La Cornus custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

Love Cornus Custom Made
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When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road.

When Started There Was
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

Babies Come Ready Until
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Castle Dublin Garden Here
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

Been Benefit Consequence Deep
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

Aware Been Continent Dedicated
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Fashion Adopt Who you are.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

About Father Figure Five
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

Masturbation Expression Self-regard Emotional
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Lying Struggle Down
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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Afghanistan Am Been Being
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Afghanistan Come Emancipation Gradually
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Peace Form Cases
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Been Being Books Broad
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My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
About Dad Did How
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Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
Act Active Imaginative Reading
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My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Editor Everything I Write Reads
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The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

Airplane Bed I Can Long
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Actual Avoided Books Electronic
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Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

Thinking Phones Talking
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Almost Boring Fear Pathological
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