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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Abhorrent Advocate Challenge Conviction
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Because Being Feeling Flourish
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

About Familiar First Form
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Alone Chance Environment Golden
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Analyzing Career Got Ingredient
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If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Light Spaceship Speed Traveling
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I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Arms Heads Museums Other
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I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Existential Here Map Over
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I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Above Apartment Furious Live
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A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

Afraid Heights Lot Me
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Answers Destroy Interesting Only
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Actively Best Lunatics Mad
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Ashamed Say Should Think
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Model Occupies Our Part
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books Funny Little Pieces
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Deeply Feared Most Suffering
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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Communication Different Things Getting
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Asking Democracy Only Ought
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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Apart Beauty Children Exactly
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Caught Commencement Easy How
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Achievements Acts Excluded Feats
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Apparent Argument Being Escape
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Enjoy Religion Share Rapture
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It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

Mattered People Wrong Right
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Obstacle Look Large Challenge
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As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

Child Mean Children Mind
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Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
Censoring Say People Personal
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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Power Discover Inside Dream
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I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Dishonesty People Honest Statistically
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Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Opportunities Power Latent Eye
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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Stumbling Block Defeat Weak
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Song Music Love Anything
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Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

Beware True Enemy Fish
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Wild Liable Eye Squarely
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The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
Kids People Instead Property
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Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

Few Simple Joy Holy
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
Opportunity Miss Broadcast Tune
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I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

Able Awesome Being Business
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

One Skills Learn Become
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The sinews of war are infinite money.

Infinite Money Sinews War
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Aspiring Even Highest Honorable
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Decisive Feeling Passion Politician
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Facts His Inconvenient Mean
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

Apparatus Bureaucratic Compares Developed
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The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Another Complementary Conviction Ethic
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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Above Career Elevate Even
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Administration Bureaucratic Continuity Costs
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Astonishing Become Despite Easily
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Appeared Communist Conception Crude
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