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The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

Powerful Weapon Devil Humility
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“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Practice Judge Favorable Light
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“Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.”
Nature Trees Deep Roots
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To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

Being Best Bring Carry
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Man Uniform Adds Excuse
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Drunken Joy Taste Wine
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Tragedy Delight Affording Pleasure
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves
Nature Fault Punishment Deserves
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Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

AllYear Confidence Give GiveMe
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As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

Buildings Down Drive Get
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At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice way, not just on a dusty shelf.

Art Artwork Certain Certain Point
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When all my girlfriends were watching 'ER,' I was watching episodes of 'Kids in the Hall.'

Episodes Girlfriends Hall Kids
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There's a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit.
Express Femininity Fruit Going
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Getting to prove yourself in a room that's not your typical demo is an experience every comic should try. It makes you better.

Better Comic Demo Every
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I was always rewarded for being funny. I liked being funny.

Always Being Being Funny Funny
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The women who are pool waitresses are another worldly species. They're half-desert lizards. They never have sunburns.

Another Never Pool Species
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Against Beings Conditioning Control
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The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Destroy First First People Free
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
Patterns Perceive Understand Wisdom
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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Against Being Established Ever
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I've built a career on evenly entertaining men and women. And I'm kind of known for not making either side feel bad.

Bad Built Career Either
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I think people have to understand that 'empowering' for women doesn't mean negating men.

Empowering I Think Mean Men
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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Absolute Certainties Childhood Craving
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Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

America Anyone Auto Detroit
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Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

Aircraft Always Carrier Japan
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Too much Sex Person Waka
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If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.

America Destroyed Fleet Hawaiian
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I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.

Air Appointed Attack Chief
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Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

Attack Been Being Better
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Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has come for the Navy, especially the Combined Fleet, to devote itself seriously to war preparations, training, and operational plans with a firm determination that a conflict with the U.S. and Great Britain is inevitable.

Although Anyone Britain Combined
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To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.

Been Best Decided Fight
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As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.

Arms Consequence Continue Damaged
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The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.

Afforded Another Before Build
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I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.

Captain Heartfelt Must Now
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Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

Air Anyone Failure First
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You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good.

Comedy Deny Good Makes
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The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.

Attack Believe Cannot Destroy
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I remember playing a college in Michigan, and they all held up their hand to show me where they live, which made me wonder what weird alien cult I had entered.

Alien College Cult Entered
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

About Being Bored Boring
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.

Birth Choose Country Denying
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Based Books Documentary Evidence
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Across Art Art Form Authentic
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

Action Character Character Development Development
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There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

About Believe Desk Else
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My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

About Always Ambition Chaotic
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Creative Documentation Endless Eve
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

About Deep Father Fear
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Ability Absolutely Almost Both
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

Critics Reach Readers Regardless
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