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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Forgive Despise Everybody
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

Masturbation Expression Self-regard Emotional
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Atrocious Black Business Climate
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.
Expanding Universe Outcast
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Disguise Economics Found Money
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.

Just Musician Producer Record
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Rome Create Empire Meeting
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

Diana Ever Felt Forget
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Been Claim Debt Ever
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As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
Closeness Relationship Sex Patch
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Married Human Unnatural State
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Confronted Unbridled Desire Tragedy
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Atmosphere Attended Been Celebrating
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

About Creative Engineering Find
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Lying Struggle Down
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Motivation Believe Philosophical
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Wisdom Life and Love Monopoly
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Better Children Every Generation
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

Memories Second Chance Humanity
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
Friendship Relationship Family
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

Women Progress Care
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I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Ask Because Embarrassed Every
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

About Movies Music Release
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I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Another Believes Kind Man
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Abortion American Any Both
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Leadership Wisdom Health
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Afghanistan Am Been Being
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Action Actions Consequences Every
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Afghanistan Almost Conservative Countryside
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Afghanistan Come Emancipation Gradually
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Life Courage Queens
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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Burden Culture Entire Kind
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

Heaven Bits
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

Understanding Patriotism True Patriotism
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Peace Form Cases
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Been Being Books Broad
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My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
About Dad Did How
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Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
Act Active Imaginative Reading
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Important Answer Formal
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Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

Soccer Football Game
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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

Enjoy Family Life Live
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Hippies Peaceful Popular Quiet
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I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Being Doctor Good Liked
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In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Accusing Always Create Finds
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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

About Always Difficult Easy
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