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In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Age Better Doing Get
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Best End Focus Game
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How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Christ Dies Even Ever
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

Before Course Even Go
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Exceptions General Can Think
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I think I can change the game.
Change Game I Can I Think
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

Advertising Am Bear Because
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Destruction Ecology Reality Universe
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Biologist-and-writer
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You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Behave Out Problems Talk
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I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!
Deny Fact Like Me
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Attention Burroughs Destruction Emotion
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Conservation Science War
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Environmentalism
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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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How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?
Beat Everything How Lost
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

Another Any Describe Feel
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I've always had an aptitude for wrestling. I can't explain it - it's like a gift. To this day, I don't always know how or why I do certain things.

Always Aptitude Certain Certain Things
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.

Courage Cruelty Expectations Humanity
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

Cruelty Humanity Nature Peace
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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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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Beauty Environment Environmental-justice Inspirational
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I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word.

Honestly Say After Talking
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There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.

Banned Cannot Communal Consensus
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I am capable of holding the quote-unquote 'title' of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Capable Holding Quote Unquote
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I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

Never Standup Step Away
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Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

Every Relationship Should Eventually
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Any Art Been Danger
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When you're coming up with new material, it's not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it's working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You're constantly rebuilding.

When New Coming Material
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I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Happy About Working Happy
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The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

Two Things World Share
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Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

Comedy's About Opening Being
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I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.

Got Chance Work With
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This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.

This Younger Generation Around
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Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Change Else Flows Life
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There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

Get Going High Mean
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You can get caught up in making and missing shots, but the game is so much more.

Caught Game Get Making
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I think I can run a team pretty well.

I Can I Think Pretty Run
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I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.

Balls Defense Dive Floor
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People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.

Buy Cancer Cost Costs
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I always feel like I can teach.
Always Feel I Can Like
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Cost Down Drive Great
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If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

As Far As Being Being Famous Dead
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I have no doubts about what my talents can do.

About Doubts Talents Have
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

Because I Can Lennon McCartney
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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

Battery Cell Cells Challenge
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Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

Cannot Else Everything Everything Else
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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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In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

Being Consciousness Enables End
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You can consider me stubborn, but I think I'm really intelligent.
Consider I Think Intelligent Me
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