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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

Black Definitely Integrated Officers
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Alone Army Believing Control
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Book Conception Does Experience
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Abhorrent Advocate Challenge Conviction
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Because Being Feeling Flourish
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

Being Defend Dignity Europe
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

About Familiar First Form
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Given Greatest Make Man
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Accomplished Aim Fixed Gaze
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Become Control Destiny Fail
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Cannot Did Failures Get
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

Deeper Grow Happen How
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Breakfast French Ordered Restaurant
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Paint Small Want World
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Many Memories Past Think
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I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Casual Circus Guy Head
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

About Dictionary Everything Poem
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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

Batteries Bought Included Some
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I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

Almost Back Coffee Instant
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When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction

Body Die Fiction Leaving
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George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

Announcer Bridge George Hear
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Behind Brake Car Gas
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I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Headlights Lights Like Looks
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I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

Car Home Leave Machine
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

Box Child Eventually Had
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I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Autobiography Writing
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I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Books Children Few Purpose
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Argument Considered Got Long
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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Busted Five Get Got
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I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Anything Buy General Me
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I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Above Apartment Furious Live
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I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Chain Dollar Everybody Fax
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The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

Alaska Got Missing Moved
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I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Buying Clothes Escalator Girl
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My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Makes Meant Friend Noises
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I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Advertising Executive Only Saw
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'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Camp Exaggerated Love Particular
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Avoiding Boredom Controlled Creative
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It is not the position, but the disposition.

Disposition Position
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Artificial Artist Comment Condition
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Beautiful Feminine Masculine Men
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Actively Best Lunatics Mad
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it

America Past Person Photographer
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Body Cultivation Food Mind
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Consider Honorable Intended Said
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Highest Law People Safety
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Ashamed Say Should Think
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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