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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

No man Intelligence Good faith Questioned
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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
Always American Civil Full
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Absolute liberty Responsibility Free individual
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I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

Compelled Damaged How Know
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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Beneficial Economically Except Expenditures
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I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Art Important Really Risk
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

Country Creations Economically Generation
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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

Action Claims Countries Down
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Actually Only Pretend Pretended
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Believe Desire I Think Idioms
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I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
Backup Because Lead Lead Singer
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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Because Grew How Like
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Actually Almost Anybody Best
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Any Anyone Books Ever
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Adventures Canada Encouraged Large
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Achievements Been Before Century
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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Around Back Chopped Country
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Man Pretends Understand Women
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Complexity Inhibits flexibility Crucial
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Today, choose to do good to others, especially those that can not give you anything in return.

Do good Choose Today Return
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I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

Actually Anywhere Children Did
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One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

Alive Because Born Breathe
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Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

Children Even Felt How
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Goes Head I Write Lot
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Annoying College Come Credentials
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I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

Age Anxiety Any Anything
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Come
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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Does Essentially Loneliness Lonely
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Emily Experience Great Imagination
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If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

Industry Make Man Might
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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A man is literally what he thinks.
He Literally Man Thinks
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I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

About About An Hour Again Aside
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Audience Cause Feel Get
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Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

America Class Film Invisible
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Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.

Believe Bitcoin Legal Money
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I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Fine Glad Kind Me
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Agree Bad Based Because
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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Camels Castles Clouds Like
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Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Diversification Funds Historically Individual
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Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

Big Boy Disadvantage Entering
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

About Casually Experience Folks
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The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
American AmericanPublic Historically Market
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In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.

1920s Dominated Had Information
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When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

Across America Been Came
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A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

Better Lot Market Money
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A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

Bull BullMarket Crash Long
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The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Creating Development Leaders Masses
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We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

Every Experience Frankly Funding
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