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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Bread Just Just As Much Light
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The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

Passive Ironic Attitude Destructive
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture Create Function Objects
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Admires After Centuries Conservative
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Being Believe Cease Never
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Different Even He Him
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Above Before Cannot Cynicism
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Back Character Conditions Defined
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Absolute Circumstances Conduct Depends
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Agreement Applied Blend Blow
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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Capacity Development Freedom Hand
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Enter Ever Fire Ideas
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Burning Evidence Just Life
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Discussion Great Had Made
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Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Abuse Comrade Everyone Occasion
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Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

Adventures Events Laws Moral
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The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

Before Changes Classes Determined
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Children Flesh Happens Like
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Consider Feel I Feel I Think
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Acute Be True Compassion Despair
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Catastrophe Clinical Conversations Days
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I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

Anyone Boxing Bullied Camp
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It's important to have a life outside the band.

Band Important Life Outside
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Activity Any Delicious Disagreeable
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I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now... being a bit wilder maybe!

Being Better Bit Changed
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We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

Always Amazing Band Bit
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I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

Actually Boy Coming Ed Sheeran
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When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

Bit Gets Idea More
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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

Although Any Born Brought
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I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Able Bad Does Enjoy
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A key role for a leader is to support and mentor the next generation of leaders and create an effective team.

Key role Leader Next generation Leaders
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Credibility is earned. Result speaks loudest.

Credibility Earned Speaks loudest
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Never underestimate your potential to be among the best in the world.
Never underestimate Potential Best World
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Leave no one behind. Be inclusive. Whatever you choose to do in life, always remember this: involving others in designing solutions that affect them will ensure ownership and ultimately sustainability.

Leave No one Inclusive Choose
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Always Considered Explore Minor
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Negative consideration of every politician is not a better approach…

Negative consideration Politician
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I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

Back Come Daughter Dog
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We don’t have to discriminate against people wherever they reside in the country. Once you’re a citizen of this country, you’re qualified, you’re eligible, you’re free under the law to decide to settle in any party of the country and go about your businesses without fear of molestation.

Discriminate Against people Country
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Am Get I Am Older
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Always Call Certain Dangerous
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Pain Death Part of Life
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Sex lies Life Never Learn
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Jealousy Dragon Slays love Alive
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I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Accept I cannot Malagasy Civil war
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In order to tackle malnutrition, it is essential to ensure people’s access to adequate food, appropriate health services, clean water and sanitation.

Malnutrition Adequate food Health Clean water
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Determined Ensemble Every First
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