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As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.

California Country Difficult Going
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Environment Equitable Everybody Generous
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The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.

America Burdens Change Fail
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

Business Crisis Everybody Had
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Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.

Children Demonstrate Effects Else
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I wanted to better inform the world.
Better Inform Wanted World
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Without a union, the people are always cheated, and they are so innocent.

Always Cheated Innocent People
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

Business CNN Grew Half
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

About Destroying Elephants Environment
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
Earth Frogs Giraffes Like
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Got Know Left Lose
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Artist Hard Intellectual Says
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Back Bar Bunch Dice
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Always Depends Finds First
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Friends Jail Know Sentence
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Basically Because Feel Free
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There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Bodies Course Crowd Cuts
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When you are pursuing your dreams and trying to leave a legacy, you will find help

Dreams Pursuing Legacy You
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The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
Against Female Loves Man
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Betrayal Exploration Feels Female
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

After Going Hot Hours
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Alone Circus Die Love
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I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Society Shaped Rules Bum
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Against Fear Humor Thing
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Begin Fail Lie Poem
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Alive Definite Largely Magic
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Cat Love Moment Quiet
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Away Beautiful Better Feel
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I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Automobiles Conversations Faces Feet
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Typewriter Without Woman You
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Death Laugh Live Lives
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Almost Born Buried Genius
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Christmas Heart Honor Keep
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Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive.

Achieved Productive Bed You
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Heart Hurts Never Temper
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Aims Heart Always Devoted
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Anyone Burden Else Useless
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Head Heart Wisdom
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Between Constructed Construction Created
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Another Brave Communication Electric
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Ever Life Made Many
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