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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Carved Crooked Entirely Made
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Crooked Made Man Nothing
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Although Arises Begins Does
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Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Academic Becoming Cursed Discovered
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A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

Always Born Creates Image
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I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

Abstain Also Meat Myself
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I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Because Believe Book Change
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I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Any Convert Crucial Globe
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Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

Someone looks Acts differently Ugly
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Bluebird Happiness Life Depression
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What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

Almost Audience British Distinct
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Many people Prevent Thinking
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Inferred Man Mistress Weaknesses
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Called An acute Human nature
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Habit Friction Mind Gliding over
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Blocks Everyone Experience Expression
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

About Back Blowing Bringing
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For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

Band Did Exist Felt
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I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Democratic Democratic Party Democrats Did
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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

Actor Being Brother Family
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I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

Big Book Comic ComicBook
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. Posthumous eulogies teach us that people who dislike you also quietly admire your sterling qualities. The dislike only stems from their frustration as a result of their inability to make you accept their convictions about things that are dear to them like religion or politics

Posthumous eulogies Dislike you Admire
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Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.

Public officers Mind Power Limited time
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Since most viruses that cause pandemics (e.g Ebola, COVID-19) are contracted from animals, why can’t the world invest heavily in isolating these viruses in animals & develop human vaccines for them in anticipation that one day humans might contract the viruses from these animals?

Most viruses Animals World invest
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It would appear that majority of those who demand accountability from public officers do so for selfish reasons as they really would not mind if they benefit from some unethical behavior of the public officers; their watchdog role is just to ensure that they are not ‘left out’

Majority Demand Accountability Selfish
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The challenge that’ll soon face government around the world is how to keep their citizens safe from COVID-19 by imposing inactivity & at the same time how to keep them safe from poverty, hunger and depression as a result of the inactivity. It’s a decision between the rock and a hard place

Challenge Face Government World
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Prayer is my propeller. It helps me hold it all together, and the distance I have covered is only because I draw strength from God’s presence.

Prayer My propeller Help
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The sure path to frustration is to try and control what is outside your circle of influence. Not everything that CONCERNS us is within our control . PEACE comes from knowing what lies beyond our control .

Sure path Frustration Control Influence
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I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Behind Companies Company Doing
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Adrenaline Borrowing Energy Excite
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When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Depression Graduated Had High
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
Learn Older Other People
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You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

Cooking Got Had Know
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When a nation loses respect for history, straying from the harbor of safety becomes inevitable.

Nation Loses History Safety
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Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

People Educated Piloting
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

Own Dependency Ideas Reason
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I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

Agree Along Believe Came
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I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

Accepting Come Family Very
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I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

About Buying Care Don't Care
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I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

Because Blessed Come Feel
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I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a part of me. When I'm playing, it's staring right back at me, saying, 'Remember where you came from.'

Always Back Because Came
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I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

Beginnings Clear Come Everything
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I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

Conversations Energy Get Group
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PayPal was disruptive, it was democratizing, and it had universal appeal. It gave power to millions and millions of individuals and reduced monopolist control from nations, banks, and other huge corporations.

Appeal Banks Control Corporations
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Broadly, the meaning of life comes from how we interact with each other. The Internet can reconfigure space so that the right people are always next to each other.

Always Each How Interact
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Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage.
Advantage Competitive CompetitiveAdvantage Freedom
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Your credentials do not qualify you to receive any blessing from God. God freely gives to us because of grace and not due to our good deeds.

Credentials Good deeds God Freely
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No country on earth has been spared the ravages of this virus, and my single-minded goal is how to steer the country out of this crisis, protect our population from the virus, and see to the rebuilding of our economy. Nothing else matters for me.

Earth Spared Ravages Virus
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Robert Mugabe will be remembered, above all, for his immense contribution to the liberation of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa from imperialism, colonialism and racist rule. His dedication to the cause of Pan-Africanism is fully acknowledged.

Robert Mugabe Africa Imperialism Colonialism
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I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Always Beginning Certain Even
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