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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

Am I Am Like Perhaps
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Guided Men Misguided Missiles
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

First Good Happen Help
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Challenge Comfort Controversy Convenience
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Easy Myth People Publishers
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Cast Everything See Shadow
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

About Challenging Experience More
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Acceptance Art Done Favor
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America Australia Because Captain
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Accepts Against Evil Helps
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Age Beginning Enlightenment Modern
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Dew Flash Human Life
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Argument Irony Neither Sarcasm
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Defend Intervene Liberty Press
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I Think Myself Novels Professor
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Alert Being Coffee Cup
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Apology Books Case Devil
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Anticipation Except Future Memory
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Before Leap Like Look
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Diversity Goal Make Only
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

Being Deserves Each Even
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Fatal God His Own
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Best Done Easy Forgive
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Begin Built Compassion Love
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Also Animals Appear Appearance
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

Astronaut Back Confidence Every
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Adolescence Convinced Everyone First
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Bad Cannot Does Forget
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

Challenging Difficult Ever Extraordinary
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Against Healthy Instinct Like
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Always Conclusions Contrary Enough
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Answer Any Asked Because
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

Basically Buy Got Job
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

About All Religions Am Buddhism
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I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Athletic Bright Funny Just
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

Left Never Set Until
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
Machine Me Options Sophistication
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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Almost Amherst Any Beautiful
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Background Had Neat Parents
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

Aggressive Also Defensive Female
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Be Real Character Find Heart
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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

Classify Comedy Feel I Feel
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Idleness Men Sin Some
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Interests Just Men Opinions
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