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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.
Expanding Universe Outcast
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Disguise Economics Found Money
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.

Just Musician Producer Record
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Been Claim Debt Ever
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Atmosphere Attended Been Celebrating
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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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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Motivation Believe Philosophical
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Better Children Every Generation
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

Women Progress Care
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

About Movies Music Release
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I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Another Believes Kind Man
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Leadership Wisdom Health
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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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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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Action Actions Consequences Every
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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Afghanistan Almost Conservative Countryside
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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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True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

Understanding Patriotism True Patriotism
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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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Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

Soccer Football Game
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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

Enjoy Family Life Live
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Hippies Peaceful Popular Quiet
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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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I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Both Course Disdain Extremism
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People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

Connections Find Human Meaning
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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Both Certain Church Church And State
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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Crime Fight Fighters Fire
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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

About Between Child Economic
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Concealing Language Large Tool
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You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Day Every Every Day Feel
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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Guess Impossible Know Need
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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
Foot Hands Life Step
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Among Desires Dreamer Dreams
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You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

Bar Candy Chocolate Eating
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death Even Life Life And Death
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Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Enough Enough Money Fired Get
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Before Choose Experience Joys
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Hills Itself Jails Justice
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Alone Little Low Our
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Asked Bookstore Defeat Me
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You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Horses How Learn Make
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I'm an OG. I was an OG when I was 16. I was an OG when I made the decision I don't want to go to school anymore and start skipping to make music.

Anymore Decision Go Made
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Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

Board Life LifeIsA Score
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Alms Better Cannot Distaste
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You cannot be from Atlanta and not know who Gucci Mane is, period.

Atlanta Cannot Gucci Know
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Art Concealed Obvious Step
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Bliss Complete Created Eternal
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