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I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.

Clear Focused Get Going
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Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Culture History Language Nation
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Family Following Give Healthy
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Advice Arm Children General
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As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

American Become Dream Embrace
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Angels Brother Cause Death
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I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.

Considered Every Genre Happy
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

Boring Character Male Pretty
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Memory Nuns Poems Problems
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Caribbean Completion General Good
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

Numbers People Poetry Resource
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Always Clutch Excuse Hearth
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Desire End Felt Heard
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Applied Clerk Doctor Get
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Accord Arm Came Day
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

Accepted Alive Being Chance
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

Along Board Canoe Currents
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

Cooking Doing Either Getting
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

Battle Being Biggest Center
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Also Animal Brains Egotistical
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Ability Cycle Evolving Get
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Away Danger Expedience Liberty
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Empire Go Great Ill
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Ages Been Contest Executive
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Nothing Often Powerful Strange
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Anger Argument Cool Keep
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Agents People Power Same
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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Arising Changes Circumstances Often
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Borne Constitution Country Destiny
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Farmers
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Christ Decay Despair Else
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Beings Ethics Evolution Goal
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius Inspiration Ninety-Nine Ninety-Nine Percent
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

After Ahead Decided Fully
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Accomplishment Always Being Being Busy
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Always America Be Brave Before
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Behind Denying Everything Exists
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

America Anything Begin Catalogue
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Biggest Human Little Settle
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And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Challenge Obviously Our Own
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Anything Attitude Day Enjoy
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Aim Earth Heaven Neither
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Achievement Fails Failures Finger
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