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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Forms Opinion Support Public
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Bad Command General Good
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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Away Career Close Duty
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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Bay Died Filthy Hard
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Across Lived Miles Potent
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Nature Believe
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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Think History I
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Artist Reflect Times
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

Absolute Being Candidate Equal
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Music Gift Burden Remember
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Drug Addicts Sounds Cat
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Demand Perfection Practice Concert
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

About Any Art Beyond
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Became Because England Industrial
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

Being Concerns Decent Gandhi
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You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

Expertise Need People Voices
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

Absorb Accept Capacity Enormous
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

About Chosen Citizens Competence
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

Ability Basic Best Company
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Three Playing Piano Onstage
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Beginning Create Creation Desire
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Dream Married Year Nelson Mandela
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Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.

Am Best Company Compare
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Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

About Against Doing Doing The Right Thing
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Better Current Does Either
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Affection AllMyLife Been Every
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

Call Gaga Know Lady
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Amongst Art Artist Audience
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Angeles Awful Everybody Famous
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
Expensive Grand Had Like
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Always Any Concise Enjoyed
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

Am Behind Designer Excited
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I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

About Artistry Back Bringing
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

Any Believe Dead Gone
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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

About Awhile Could Devoted
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

Biggest Change Constant Growth
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

Androgynous Androgyny ILove Love
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

Eradicate Instrument Our Poverty
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I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

America Exactly Exactly What Go
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The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

Any Corporation Followers Future
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

About Chosen Ethically Field
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Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

Access Bring Cost Deliver
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