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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

About Bright Bright Future Feel
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.

Impress Me Memories People
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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

Exploit Inequality Long Other
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Chickens Discouraging Know Literature
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Don't be competitive, take life easy. Avoid rat race because even if you win the race, you are still a rat.

Win Race Life Easy
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

Defend Democracy Developing Free
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

Ability Any Blow Child
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

Character Connect Dragon Dwarf
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Childhood Doorway Full Met
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Greatness begins with a vision. It's your dream that produces your future.
Future Vision Dream Begins
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If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.

Ballot Believe Box Change
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

Awards Care Cool Doing
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Avoid Change Common Instinctively
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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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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Even Gives Grapes Joy
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Across Education English Getting
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Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

Catastrophe Climate Creating Employment
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Acquainted Club Easier He
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
Am Born Optimist Remain
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Actually Any Because Church
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

Begins Creation Creatures Economics
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Because Change Deeds Fail
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Begin Change Disappearing History
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Destroying Effectively Love Ourselves
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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Early Induced Infancy Trance
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Adjustment Insane Insanity Perfectly
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Achieved Alienation Beings Destiny
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Life Need Only Really Succeeded
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I don't fear media or arrest, not any threat. Am born for this. I will fight those who fight Christians and true Christians will join me.

Fight Media Fear Born
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Any Asset Beauty Deep
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Barrier Before Crash Destroy
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Anything Conscious Enslaved Freed
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Yesterday might be a ridicule, today an obstacle, but tomorrow is a miracle. Don't give up.

Miracle Give Today Obstacle
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Acquainted Actually Assume Become
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Become Begins Conscious Freedom
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Attacks Cannot Clearly Exterior
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Your success is not tied to what you have achieved but your set-goals yet to be achieved.

Achieved Tied Goal Success
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Door Honest Just Just Be
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Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. The proof of knowledge is unconditional love.

Love Care Know Proof
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Men are looking for better methods, God is looking for better men. Men are God's method. Use me Lord.

Better God Men Looking
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Don't let what people say about you define your views of yourself. People's opinion is not credit alert. It doesn't add value or take from you.

Value Credit Define People
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I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

Could Darkest Fact Iraq
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A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Can Look Lot Negative
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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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Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

America Ever Individuals Know
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I definitely feel I do have God in my corner.

Corner Definitely Feel God
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