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If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Live today Last Rocket Fire
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We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
Come from People Believe Life
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When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Wage war Public school Attacking Community together
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Sometimes Reality Eye
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Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

Some people Love Fellow man Light anesthetic
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He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

Admired Never being Loss Words
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Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

Marrying Sex Free peanuts
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I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

Taken So many Turns Careless
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The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Gospel Meant Comfort Afflicted
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Never say anything bad about a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. By then he’s a mile away, you’ve got his shoes, and you can say whatever you want to.

Never say Bad Man Walked
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Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. Life is today and tomorrow, and if you are lucky, may be next week.

Hurry up Work Life Today
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Sometimes I think I understand everything—then I regain consciousness.

Sometimes Understand everything Regain
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..life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
Life Struggle Feel Happy
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The living wander away, we don’t hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.

The living Hear Dead
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What would people think?' Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart. 'Oh,' said Grandpa.

People think Jesus said Human mind
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I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.

Family Unconscionable Congress
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

Have Some rules Regulations World
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

Good People Repay
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

Telling people Have children Unthinkable
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Question Story logic Powerful God
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

A man Lives life Meets Licks it
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The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

Human race Remarkable creature Potential Hope
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Away Been Got Gun
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Commands Divine Duties Our
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Because Certain Characters Directly
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Favor Few Got Honest
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As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Branches Currents Ebb Electric
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Concepts Constitute Corresponding Elements
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Above Awe Law Me
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We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Allow Bring Connections Delight
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

About American American Society Being
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Become Core Critics Crucial
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I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Abortion Associate Good Good Life
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In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Abortion Morally Person Physically
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Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Animal Behavior Bringing Child
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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Also Any Because Critical
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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Biting Divide Finger Licking
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Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Actually Books Classics Find
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I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

Corrections Cross Difficulty Hand
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In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Came Character Close Everything
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Anything Concentrate Does Else
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Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Alike Always Answers Ask
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A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

Always Born Creates Image
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I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.

Born Cuba I Was Born Parents
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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

About Because Book Compare
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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

After Bored Boring Drawer
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I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Because Believe Book Change
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I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Any Convert Crucial Globe
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The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Author Becoming Consequently Figure
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My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

Beginning Contemporary End Facts
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