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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Accept Advice Allow Democratic
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I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

Babies Big Covers Cream
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Having wrong friends and yet expecting a great future is like building a house using inferior materials.

Future Great Wrong Friends
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Bad Hard Hard Work Health
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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Give good counsels and advice but leave people to make their own decisions..some people never learn until they “learn lessons”.

Learn Never People Advice
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Along Friend Good Good Writer
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

Core Difference Fantasy Like
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

About Bright Bright Future Feel
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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

Exploit Inequality Long Other
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Bean Day Gets He
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Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

Defend Democracy Developing Free
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

Character Connect Dragon Dwarf
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

Awards Care Cool Doing
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Avoid Change Common Instinctively
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Across Education English Getting
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Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

Catastrophe Climate Creating Employment
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Acquainted Club Easier He
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
Am Born Optimist Remain
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

Begins Creation Creatures Economics
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Because Change Deeds Fail
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I don't fear media or arrest, not any threat. Am born for this. I will fight those who fight Christians and true Christians will join me.

Fight Media Fear Born
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Acquainted Actually Assume Become
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I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

Could Darkest Fact Iraq
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Actor Because Day Fleeting
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

Behavior Denied Existence Forms
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Clear Emotions Negative Them
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

Carefully Cause Effect Law
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

Slaves Understand Whatever
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Everything Existing Fact Filled
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

Absolutely Amount Clear Desire
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

Appreciate Follow Make People
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Arms Debates Disarmament Imperative
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Farmer Good Handy Less
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Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

Before Eyes Higher Igher Level
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
His Made Mine Our
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

After Altered Changed Color
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

Dangerous Destroy Inadequate Mankind
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

Ambition Available Call Confusion
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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
Equal Faith Heaven I See
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

Above Against Arising Attack
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Bad Bad One Face Good
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Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.

Absolute Down Endless Evil
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Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

Day Direction Follow Path
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