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I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK.

Also Ancestors Battle Been
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All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

Always Archery Back Black
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I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

About Close Drift Expert
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Be empathetic, considerate, kind, and respectful. People may forget what you gave to them but they won’t lose the memory of how you made them feel.

Be empathetic Kind Respectful Forget
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If you think the grass is greener on the other side, remember one thing: The grass is greener where you water it.
Think Grass Greener Remember
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I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Admired Along Before Billy
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The world will need new systems to meet these new needs, so, we have to either innovate, compete or die.

World Need New system Innovate
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I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

Against Brain Cancer Did
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So, the easiest way to waste the future is to churn out millions of semi-illiterates, largely unemployable citizens most of whom seek criminality as the only way to escape the poverty trap.

Easiest way Future Churn Millions
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There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

Always Bed Been Believed
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I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Bang Big Big Bang Cause
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I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

African African American American Animosity
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I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Able Been Carry Commitments
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To educate a mind is to guarantee a more prosperous future, to educate a generation is to lift a nation out of poverty. To educate oneself is the beginning of the journey.

Educate Mind Guarantee Future
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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Because Bring Disagree Equality
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Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Ages Balanced Been Bill
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Find what you love and concentrate all your energy on it. Work on it everyday. Yes, there will be obstacles; but they prepare you for the successes that lie ahead.

You love Work Obstacle Successes
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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

Because Beliefs Christian Christianity
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A woman becoming financially independent doesn’t equate to ‘I don’t need a man’. It just means, she brings more to the table. Instead of being a financial burden, she becomes a value addition.

Woman Financially independent Equate
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I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Bed Days Final Had
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Asked Between Bring Campaign
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I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

Actually Again Been Broadcasting
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Any Avoid Betray Confidence
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If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.
Analysis Never Salt Scientist
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The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Answer Around Been Communities
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It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Because Case Conservatives Dominate
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When you invest in science and begin to develop your own vaccines and dictate the pace, those "racists" will stop disrespecting you and think that your only contribution is to be used as guinea pigs.

Invest Science Racist Vaccines
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A man who brags about how lavishly he provides for his family would create the impression of a caring man and earn the praise of outsiders.

Brags Family Caring man Lavishly
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You can break the vicious cycle of poverty if you don’t spend your entire life helping others to perpetuate the virtuous circle of privilege.

Vicious Cycle Poverty Spend
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Animal Animals Conceive Convince
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Best Category Earned Emmy
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Details Explore Hinge Intimate
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Need Schools Sometimes Things
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

Difficult childhood Surrounded Parent
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
About Being Combination Exciting
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Advise Congress Distinct Duties
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When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

Film maker Desperate Survive End
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

High school Interested History People do
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Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Whatever Happened Innovation Immaculate reality
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Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated .

Making Film Sieve Element
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Loved photography Crazy thing Day nobody
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There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Kids Inspired me Adult Interested
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The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

Intelligent When people Started out Make sense
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Difficulty Disturb Every Ghost
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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Football games Stadium attendance Movie
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I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

Live Simple life Beaten track
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Dust God Greater Idol
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