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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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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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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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It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Real friends Aisle Society
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Politics Act One
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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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It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

Become Crusade Demonstrate Violent
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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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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Bad Begets Even Evil
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Carved Crooked Entirely Made
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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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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Combine Following Hope Interests
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Crooked Made Man Nothing
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Happily Live Long Necessary
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Actions Become Law Life
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Happiness Ideal Imagination Reason
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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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There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Based Designate Faculty Impression
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It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Ahead Always Applied Basic
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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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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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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Background Classic Even Holds
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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'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Books Brief Collected Composed
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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Because Excellent Find Followed
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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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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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Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Cannot Day Every Every Day
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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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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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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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Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

Anger Color Fear Hurt
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I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

Better Bus College Come
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I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

Animals Ask Cat Chicken
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Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Acceptable Butt Jokes Last
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I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Accepting Am Enough Fortunate
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So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

Attract Enough Find Fortunate
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

About Book Dog Drinking
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My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

Always Animal Collecting Creatures
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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Strength Civilization Measured Ability
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This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

Cow Entire career Looking at
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

Humans Ecosystems History Life
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

Cartooning Good fit Never think
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I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

Thought Cow Funny Line
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I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

School Four years Communications
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I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

Feel My identity Caught up Cartoonist
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