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It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Nations learn Past Draw Correct conclusions
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

History's ironies Classless society
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In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Appearance Power Important Reality
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

The reason University politics Small
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Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance.

Self explanatory Analysis Interpretation
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned.

Statesman Arguments Convincing End
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Human nature Weak
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Adversity Reason Benefit Sober reflection
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Troubles Tools God Better things
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Young love Flame Pretty Hot
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I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

Decade Flavor Like Myself
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Do you want to be bigger than you were last year? If yes: build your capacity. Achievers are learners, you need more knowledge to make it big in this life.

Bigger than Last year Capacity Learners
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Our God is too faithful & when you seek Him, you find Him. All we need in this life is in the Bible. The word of God has everything

God Faithful Seek him Find him
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You can destroy your now and  your future by holding on to the past. The past is what it is, it has passed. Learn from the past and move on

Destroy You can Future The past
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No one pours water in a glass that’s already full. Do you need to receive something this season? If yes, then present yourself before God empty!

No one Water Glass Season
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Appreciate Garden Live Me
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Because Book Dictionary Else
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I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

All Day Around Because Bed
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Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

About Because Diversion Incredible
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I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

Charlotte Little Loved People
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

Another Choice Combination English
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

About Age Any Anyone
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The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

Become Distortion Else English
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Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

Children Even Felt How
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Annoying College Come Credentials
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I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

Age Anxiety Any Anything
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I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

Again Anything Because Books
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At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

Adored Associate Enormous Everyone
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Days Dignity Find Happens
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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Emotions Human Human Emotions I Love
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

About Army Done Her
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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

Career Concern Crucial Does
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Brought Century Complains Disdain
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America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Acknowledge America Cowardly Deny
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If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.

Faster Fingers Mind Than
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Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

Always Around Better Bother
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I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright boys and girls. It spotted me when I was 14, and I owe a tremendous debt to my alma mater.

Always Am American Been
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My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.

About Anyone Area Came
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Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

Bit Bother Christmas Come
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I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

Childhood Cycle Device Missed
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Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great hotels, the fascinating local people, the exciting history of the two contrasting island groups, and the unmatched scenery make these two of the most enticing stopovers.

Best Contrasting Exciting Fascinating
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I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.

Characters Defined Explanation Feast
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Become Day Dream Dreams
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To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Attainment Begin Enter Failure
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Aspiration Become Controlling Desire
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Achievement Acorn Angel Bird
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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Affairs Effort Efforts Human
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Being Choice Every He
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