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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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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Life Courage Queens
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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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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Concealing Language Large Tool
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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Afghan Been Few Group
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Caravan Faith Heart Never
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Attitude Bring Brings Determined
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No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Amazingly Faith Future God
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I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.
Being Entertain Entertain People Happy
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My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

American Blues Driven Rap
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Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

Confidence Exact Gold Impact
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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Drown Falling River Staying
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in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

Press Sex life Lady Bountiful Sheets
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Desire Even Getting Lose
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Attention Become Blind Brings
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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Also Beginning Earth Everything
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Bit Condemned Die Thus
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Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are
Wake Morning God Feet
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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Extraordinary Way Ordinary
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

Carve Place Grace Born
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The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment

Extraordinary Happen Match Moment
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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

Remember Past Today Grace
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

Analysis Delay Dynamic Means
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My good friends call me Bobby.

Bobby Call Friends Good
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Been Could
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Abyss Down Going Lies
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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Easy Entertained Grow Just
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No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.

Movies Awkward Irregular Fashion
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

Cinema Thankless Industry Appear
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

America Continent Created Does
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Aims Attitude Defined Future
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Abrupt Divides Each Geography
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

God Loves Accepts Grace
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.

You Shaped Believe Tomorrow
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

Calling Created Gift Emerged
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Astonishment Been Centuries Did
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

After Because Fact Hundred
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Ancient times World Patriarchal Catholic
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Always Experience Fame Fickle
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These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

Baby Baghdad Goes Heart
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As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Case Game Motive Question
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Delusions Down Fastest Got
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I've always wanted a baby.

Always Baby Wanted
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Despise Enough Few People
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The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

Because Blond First Girl
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For men led by the Colour, and the Shape, Like Zeuxes Birds fly to the painted Grape; Some things do through our Judgment pass As through a Multiplying Glass. And sometimes, if the Object be too far, We take a Falling Meteor for a Star.

Star Far Shape Falling
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solace and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

My Heart Which Full
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Betray Rich Night Small
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