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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Accord Arm Came Day
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Being Blood Fierce Fiery
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Bed Breakfast Dress Eat
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
Begin Beginning Continue End
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

Accepted Alive Being Chance
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

Along Board Canoe Currents
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Away Ever Given Nothing
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Because Believe Christianity Else
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Cut Deserts Down Educator
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

Great Great Stories Just Part
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

Different Earth Feeling Nobody
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Another Balance Bit Else
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

Battle Being Biggest Center
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

American American Society Dealing I Think
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Both Corrupts Flattery Giver
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Fact History Intrigued Man
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Ability Cycle Evolving Get
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Creator Equity Governs Humanity
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Conclude Derived Good Happy
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Drown Even Gnawing May
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Empire Go Great Ill
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Every Grows Slavery Soil
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Frame Hasty How Judgment
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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There is always room at the top.

Always Room There Top
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Appearance Fully Governed Know
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Currency Government Evils Greatest
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Good Inspired Make Man
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Does Gives Him Immortality
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Bad Conviction Done Many
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Despotism Called May Government
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Earth Materials Natural Productions
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Ever God Important Individual
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Been Liberty People Regard
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Among Diffusion Education Free
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

All Things Answered Ends Great
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Borne Constitution Country Destiny
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Christians Citizens Good Good Citizens
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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Associated Being Condition Creatures
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Farmers
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Accept Barbarism Be Prepared Civilization
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Failed Found Just Ways
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Christ Decay Despair Else
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Great Great Ideas Ideas Muscles
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Because Just Just Because Mean
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Consists Worth You Your
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Good Imagination Invent Junk
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