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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Central Conditions Democracy Development
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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Children Future Going Leave
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Choose Get Go Know
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Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

About Drawing Few Governments
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Conditions Difficult Economic Generous
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I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.

Loyal And Think Most
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Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

Two Must Have For
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Earth Help Here Know
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Taste Irritating Direct Friends
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No matter how angry the gods are, a lion cannot be used for sacrifice..no one can take your life no matter their precedent in the act of extinction.

Act Lion Life Angry
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Housekeeping Little Little Things Practical
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Beware Blows Come Easy
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

AdBetter Feel Good Guests
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You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

Life Live Meet Missing
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I don't like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

Boring Chair Corny Cream
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If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.

Audience Music Painful Performer
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Die Immortality Love Love Is
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Delightful Rare Tell Truth
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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Action Constructive Ndecision Reverie
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I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

Come Complete Control Deserve
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All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

Artists Everybody Fashion Favorite
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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold
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Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

About Bundle Car Childhood
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Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.
About Just Me Mountains
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Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Belief Believe Beyond Force
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Because Beings Better Dogs
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Bush Charms Else Fear
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Had Hurry Mother Never
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Colonial Country Fight Gain
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Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

Against Also Authors Both
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy Half More People
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It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Age Clever Criticism Critics
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

Any Beyond Book Business
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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

About America Career Job
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One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Character Come King Move
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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Don't be competitive, take life easy. Avoid rat race because even if you win the race, you are still a rat.

Win Race Life Easy
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Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

Defend Democracy Developing Free
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

Awards Care Cool Doing
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Acquainted Club Easier He
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Destroying Effectively Love Ourselves
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Along Climbs Creative CreativePeople
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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Early Induced Infancy Trance
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Anything Conscious Enslaved Freed
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Acquainted Actually Assume Become
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
Chosen Exactly Where
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Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. The proof of knowledge is unconditional love.

Love Care Know Proof
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Men are looking for better methods, God is looking for better men. Men are God's method. Use me Lord.

Better God Men Looking
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