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Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Lost Thought Virginity
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Corners Easy Escapes Fuss
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Belief Forced Just No-One
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Aim Biography Discovery History
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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Edge Earthly Knowledge Nature
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Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Dollars Done Half Land
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

Africa Because Born Brought
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

Content Discontent Even Moving
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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Being Come Despair Given
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

Answer Asking Many Meaning
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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Come Country Little Part
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That word can be very extreme… But I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality. Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I’m just a woman and I love being a woman. If you’re attractive then you can’t be sexy, and you can’t be intelligent? What is all of that? -from Vogue

Attractive Equality Extreme Feminist
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The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
About Great Great Thing Like
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

True Instant Picture Image
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Cathartic Comedy Deal Personal
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

An Imagination Led Mob
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

About Against Argument Charity
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Agreeable Greatest Mistake More
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Bear Feel Forgotten Himself
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Annoying Generally Going People
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Desk Nuclear Nuclear Power Plant
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Feeling Good Opera People
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Become Being Kind Kindness
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

About Absolutely Certain Only
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Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

Actress Being Find I Can
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Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.

Able About Acting Am
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Best Better Defined Hypothesis
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Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

Accused Analogy Animal Behaviour
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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

And Musicians Better Run
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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Ally Become Compassion Everything
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Defeat Defeated Destroyed Made
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: they offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

Twist Minds Money Promise
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We have to upgrade our dilapidated physical infrastructure. No single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation. It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less.

Power Shame Economy Single
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music Smell Anywhere Invisible
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

About Absolutely American Believes
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Actor Because Day Fleeting
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Away Freedom Measured Number
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Avoid Avoided Deal Great
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You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Cannot Christ Church Committed
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I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

About Dangerous Giving Hope
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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Like Need
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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Belt Feather Head Over
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I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

Dance Music Do Can
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You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

You Can Be Very
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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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I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Bitterness Damaging Die Enemy
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There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

Experience Forget Forgiven Hurts
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