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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

Based Blindly Book Evidence
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Alone Beast Distinctive Finds
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Am Asleep Fall I Am
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Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Aim Better Failed God
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Beneath Foot His Make
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I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

Know Loved Man More
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My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

Alive Always Been Dad
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Times My father Hated guns Wars
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Life Routine Unbearable
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I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

Born good Grown progressively Year
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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Down Know Place Politicians
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Prejudice Dirty word Faith Common
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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Reader Introductions Pleasure Kill
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

Some men World Unpleasant jobs
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Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

Best BestFriend Enough Friend
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I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

Admire Bedrock Catholicism Had
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Children are precious and they are our future. It is our duty and responsibility as a family and community to love, care for and protect them.

Children Future Responsibility Family
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As much as HIV is a major issue, most people living with HIV lead healthy lives when empowered with information on how to effectively manage the infection.

Much Major issue Living with Healthy
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…More needs to be done especially to address gender based violence which seems to be more pronounced recently.

Done Especially Address gender More pronounced
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I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Believed Five Forever Institution
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If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

1920s Actress Any Been
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Education has been identified as a solution to the problem of early marriages in Africa.

Education Identified Solution Problem
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Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.

Ask Bogart Even Hollywood
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It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

Changed Hawks Life My Life
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That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

Actor Actor Anyway Because
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I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

Always Astaire Dance Dancing
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When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.

Afford Back Because Bette
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I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.

Adored Beside Breaking Ever
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I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

Actual Ever Life Made
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Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Agency Because Car Car Keys
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One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.

About Basic Care Child
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My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

Got Had Little Lived
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All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

Basically Part Same Shows
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The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

America Enlightenment Reason Schools
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I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Above Average Career Medium
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Always Apt Beautiful Better
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I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

Bully Excruciating Felt Had
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Always Bleak Family Family Life
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

Down Get Paper Remember
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Able At Least One Been Bonus
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Artist Confidence Consolation Doubt
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It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Dope Gossip Inside Vatican
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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Cathedral Dedicated Rites Secular
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Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

Avoid Easy Ending Extremes
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His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Bill Dull Full Had
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Cards Credit Credit Cards Father
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Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success

Failure Success Think
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Things are never as bad as they seem.

Things Never Bad
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

Seemed glad Appeared Kitchen Watching her
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