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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Bad Cannot Civil Common
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Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

Burden False Make Horrible
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Accepted Astonished BeTrue Because
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition
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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

Walk.valley Shadow Death Fear
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There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Desert Man Needs
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Cannot Consequently Determined He
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I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Being BeingNice Changed Easier
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Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

Even Feel Get
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

Because IWrite Inside Lot
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My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that

Chorus Details Down Dwarf
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Meaningful development can't take place without adequate security

Meaningful Development Security Adequate
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Adventure Comfort Zone Good
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
Downfall Guidance His Learn
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

About Again Because Being
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The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

Alive Deep Dig Go
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
Arena Change Desert Never
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Terms Like That Humane
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

What Keeps You Going
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

People's Dreams Are Made
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The Very Least You
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Stop Minute Right Where
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Hopeful To Embrace One
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Small Change Wonders These
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

When You Pick Up
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Empathy Really The Opposite
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Seems Very Safe Me
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Don't Understand How Good
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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

Passion Oxygen Chemistry Book
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Count All The Way
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One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

Man Minds Differ Widely
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

Always Seen The World
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Grew Up Aware All
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Home Growing Up Weren't
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I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Abuse Basis Being Bullied
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“I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion”

Regards Education Task Survival
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Used Think Religion Just
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“There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.”
More Setle Less Lives
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“There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.
Exist Everyone Passion Thirst
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Readers Fiction Read Think
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“Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .”

Education Young Effect Right
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file.

Morning Begins With Trying
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“Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or quarreler?”

Remember Boy Rebel Fail
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It's Funny Thing People
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Love Developing Children Characters
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“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. ”

Entertainment Devil Joy
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Live Rural Part Virginia
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“There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.”
Kinds People World Black
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“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”

Entertainment Devil Joy Lord
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I personally don't think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you're better at, because you try harder in it.

Always Amount Because Better
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