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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Conservative Defense Freedom Frighten
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Being Central Century Condition
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Become Books Clearly Concerned
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Art Constant Continue Fall
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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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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Advances Between Connection Develop
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Considered Dangerous Jail Repressive
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Alone Concept Doom Invented
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Concentrate Essential Important Most
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Begin Bore Bores Contradict
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I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

Best Come Conversations Cruel
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Anguish Beautiful Beautiful Music Cries
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Let us take control of our situation instead of being afraid, for Satan, the cause of crisis, has been defeated.
Satan Control Instead Afraid
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

We All Self-conscious Just
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

School Teacher Facial Features
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I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

Didn't Want To Play
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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Aggression Culture Disposition Independent
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Accord Complexes Conduct Eliminate
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Adult Average Between Child
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Activities Dreams Interpretation Knowledge
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Ages Books Burned Burning
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Alone Also Anticipate Businessman
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Conflicts Emotions Flowers Look
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Been Conqueror Favorite Feeling
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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Itself May Nature Unconscious
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Awareness Change Choose Conscience
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Change Choice Life Principles
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Basically Because Character Consistent
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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Accomplish Carefully Certain Certain Things
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
About Accumulate Contribution Life
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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Contributions Ever Extremely Job
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Being Better Between Challenges
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I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

Affects Been Causes Condition
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Trust is central to an economy that works.
Central Economy Trust Works
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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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If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.

Confident Feel I Feel Play
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Contemporary Gets History Message
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Contract Hollywood Instead Observation
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Inspiration Nature
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

Biology Curious Evolution Existence
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Beauty Earth Nature Strength
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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Carefully Consider Definition Experience
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Beauty Earth Humility Wonder
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There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.

Allied Entirely Experienced Having
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

Any Half Make Me
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A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.

Chemicals Nature Science
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