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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Achieving Successful Relationship Disaster
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Nerve Imagine Force Planets
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Love Foundation Cornerstone Complete
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

Because Black Dignified Dignity
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Vice Reward Marketed Consumer
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Decency Exhausting Maintain Opposite
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Again Box Care Honey
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

About Father Figure Five
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
Accident Passenger Terrible
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Sex Refuge Miserable
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

Trouble Children Returnable
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Introvert Environment Subject Startling
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Country Defined Every Food
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

Game Gangster Playing Profitable
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Forgive Despise Everybody
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

Masturbation Expression Self-regard Emotional
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Atrocious Black Business Climate
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Rome Create Empire Meeting
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

Diana Ever Felt Forget
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I've met every freak in the business.
Business Every Freak Met
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Been Claim Debt Ever
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As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
Closeness Relationship Sex Patch
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Married Human Unnatural State
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Confronted Unbridled Desire Tragedy
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Atmosphere Attended Been Celebrating
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Also Christmas Come Coming
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

About Creative Engineering Find
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Lying Struggle Down
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Motivation Believe Philosophical
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Better Children Every Generation
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
Friendship Relationship Family
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

Women Progress Care
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I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Ask Because Embarrassed Every
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

About Movies Music Release
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I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Another Believes Kind Man
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Abortion American Any Both
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Leadership Wisdom Health
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Afghanistan Am Been Being
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Afghanistan Almost Conservative Countryside
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Life Courage Queens
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.

Thinking People
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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Burden Culture Entire Kind
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

Heaven Bits
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Peace Form Cases
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Been Being Books Broad
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My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
About Dad Did How
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