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Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Easier Find Go I Can
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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Always Boring Dark Most
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Ambition Been Console Fortune
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Both Center Divine Human
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Absolutely Air Bar Became
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Agents Circumstances Creature Creatures
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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Close Effects Framing Much
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Alive Becomes Body Concepts
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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

About Art Art History Attention
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Existed Exists Most Point
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Ages Experience Quotations Wisdom
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Book Fewer Here Like
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Attempt Become Beware Fearful
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Both Career Commons Course
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I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Accountable Exercise Exist ForThePeople
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Between Different Each Feelings
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

Afterwards First He Taught
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Busier Busy He Man
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Time and tide wait for no man.
Man Tide Time Wait
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Desire Forbid Something Thing
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

Both He May Well
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Age Agree Chastity Filth
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Body Clean Fast Fat
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Be Brave Bed Brave Desire
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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Above Admire Embrace Key
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The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

Accomplishments Behind Company Contents
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It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

Better Better Chance Care Chance
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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Beginning Cultivating Men Men And Women
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Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

Any Believe Expression Faith
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Criticism Destroy Entire Everyone
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Speaks Understands Whom Metaphysics
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Natural Right Pens Peril
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Think Yourselves Others Privilege
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love Nature Canvas Embroidered
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Forbidden Kill Murderer Punished
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Law Nature Tolerance Consequence
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Indeed History Tableau Crime
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
World Embarrasses Dream Watch
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Safest Course Conscience Secret
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Never Prayer God Enemies
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I have a little spa at home. I put together a room where I get massages, pedicures, manicures. It's comfortable in my own home, and it's very private. It's very relaxing.

Comfortable Get Home Little
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I don't have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and that's it. I do it myself. You know, those hours with your child are really important ones, even if it's just the two of you, being quiet in the car together.

Assistant Being BeingQuiet Car
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Perfection Attained Slow Degrees
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Read Dance Amusements Harm
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I enjoy tennis, Pilates. I read magazines and love fashion.

Enjoy Fashion Love Magazines
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I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

After Commercials Did First
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My mom loved fashion. We loved to travel and go to Italy and Paris.

Fashion Go Italy Loved
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