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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Achieved Against Civilization Human
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Blocked Come Concentrating Out
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To be free is to have achieved your life.

Achieved Free Life Your
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

Air Children Country Did
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Child Doubt Eradicated Grow
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Above Achieve Compassion Hope
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Adult Believe Child Dead
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Always Be Grateful Children Grateful
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Above Achieve Children Compassion
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Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

Ambition First Child Had
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Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

Because Children Everything Pick
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Any Chief Chief Executive Executive
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There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Being Chill Time Glittering
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Important Keep Law Love
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Between China Defects Even
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Certain Children Decided Had
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Before Boundaries Child Had
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
Machine Me Options Sophistication
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Children Everything Family Flows
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Always Anything Architecture Else
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In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

About Article Child Felt
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Character Chisel Complete Life
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Blazing Came Chimney Continue
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Stillness Teaching Vehicles Around
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Awaken Because Coming Contact
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.

About Article Beasts Began
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'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

Books Childhood Displayed Few
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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

Afraid Africa African China
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Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.

About Achieve Be Happy Earth
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If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Assimilate Because Children Different
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Actor Going Good Good Movie
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

Chickens Even Farm Fun
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Achieved Force Kept Peace
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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Children Everybody Just Marriage
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My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

Absolutely Big Countries Destroying
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

About Art Background Candy
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So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Away Big Billion Business
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Achieves Better Cost Evil
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Bear Beauty Beholder Children
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

Beautiful Boom Broke Buying
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

Above Below Children Consist
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The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.

Perfect Date Me Would
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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Children Desire Well Either
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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

Children Expect Like Old
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Benefits Bequeath Children Conserve
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Back Cannot Children Responsible
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'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did in two years; they're gonna tell me today.

Because Classic Did Everyone
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An honest man is always a child.
Always Child Honest Honest Man
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