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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Best Convinced General Opinions
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Abhorrent Advocate Challenge Conviction
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

About Familiar First Form
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'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Camp Exaggerated Love Particular
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own

Camera Eventually Everyone Makes
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it

America Past Person Photographer
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Ashamed Say Should Think
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Abstract Famous Independent Intensity
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

About Album Extended Family
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Dream Life Interpret Looking
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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition Does Feeds Others
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Arrogant Discovered His Idea
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us

Amount Directly Disagreeable Feel
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Big dreams turn into big things.

Big Dreams Turn Into
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

Ever Men's Once Door
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You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.

God Mess End Ugly
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Coutry Beer Football Weapons
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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Power Discover Inside Dream
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The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

Begins Art Frame Humble
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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

Great Cable Habit Invincible
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God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

Human Creature Protection Right
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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

Grateful Life Habit Gratitude
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I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

Able Awesome Being Business
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Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Obama Michelle Tell Me
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Again Beings Come Creator
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Administration Bureaucratic Continuity Costs
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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Above Act Avoidance Breaking
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Among Distribution Either Groups
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The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Beckham Confess Girl Her
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I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Am Done Good Good Thing
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Dreams Lose Might Mind
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Around Because Bread Came
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Between Coin Continuum Creativity
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

About Backdrop Different Different Perspective
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Although Among Impure Light
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I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

Been Culture Daily Dancing
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I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Brought Came Child Close
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I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Audience Awesome Being Champion
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I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

Been Culture Daily Dancing
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The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Men Idolized Built Their
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I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Man Who Truthful Pride
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I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Dance Done Drink Family
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I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.

Don't Want Life Explainable
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When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God's command to always rejoice.

Consumed Problems Stressed About
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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.

Relationship God Simply Cannot
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When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.

Become Concerned Our About
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We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.

We Live Short Time
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I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

Want Joy Knowing AM
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The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

Real Question How Much
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