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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Beginning Believe Did End
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But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

Cage Human Beast Master
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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

Age Believe Even Extend
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Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Ages Been Childbirth Dying
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The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

Advice Age Always Difficult
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If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Ability Almost Back Big
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When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

Alive Armed Children Civil
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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

Average husband Enjoys Home
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Every man Sees World Fellows
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If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

Your body Damaged Wounded Mentally
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As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.

Because Disastrous Had ICan
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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Battle Courage Easier Freedom
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Absence Ahead Capacity Courage
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Conformity Courage Cowardice Opposite
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The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.

Age Anxiety Atomic Brought
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

Behave Charm Charming Edge
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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Courage Feel Missed More
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Author Cell Chained Every
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Happiness Insipid Rarest Seems
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

We live Cheaper Buy
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Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

Hatred Life Worth living Possible
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After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Few years Man Woman Marriage
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

People Watch stops Hour Permanently
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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Waste time Break Man's heart
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Marriage Miracle Transform Kiss
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I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.

Anything Hit Home Ready
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I think education opened up huge vista and opportunities and networks and the courage to do with those skills what you can.

Education opened Opportunities Network Courage
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You need a different skill set that looks at taking advantage of opportunities that are much more of an entrepreneurial skill that you can add as you address many of the market opportunities.

Skill set Taking advantage Entrepreneurial skill
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I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Age Around Arrested Back
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The only purpose of power is to serve with the courage of one’s conviction that all people in the world have rights that must be respected.

Only purpose Serve Courage Conviction
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Young people need to be taught financial management. My mother taught me to live within my means and never depend on debt.
Young people Financial management Live Means
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The question we each have to settle is not what we’d do if we had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what we will do with the things we have right now…because we each hold a unique gift for the world.

Question Means Time Influence
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I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

Many Message Music Opera
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If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Actually Age Being Believe
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It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Age Classical Classical Music Embrace
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Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

Advantage Always Sometime Called
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

About Career Doing Going
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It is an obvious fact that when an age is torn loose from its moorings and everyone is to some degree thrown on his own, most people can take steps to find and realize themselves.

Age Degree Everyone Fact
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But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

About Also Audience Harder
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Country Developed Future Image
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Age Been Class Each
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Among Application Competition Division
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Always have good relationships with people. It doesn’t mean you have to be best friends with everyone but it means whenever you engage with people you are positive and it’s meaningful. That’s how I managed to climb the corporate ladder fast.

Always have Good relationship Best friends
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Food Give Menu Metaphysics
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I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.

About Cook Evolved Favorite
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It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

Another Fascinating Language Place
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Bride Second marriage Wear
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Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Marriage Turning Chopsticks
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Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Before marriage Declares His life
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I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

Age Been Chasing Doing
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