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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Politics Act One
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
Rich people Make money Lose Sympathy
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Patriots don't let their nation default.

Patriots Nation Default
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

Telling people Have children Unthinkable
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Question Story logic Powerful God
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

A man Lives life Meets Licks it
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Time is the fire in which we burn.
Time Fire Burn
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It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

Become Crusade Demonstrate Violent
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The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

Human race Remarkable creature Potential Hope
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Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Normal television Limit Science fiction
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Away Been Got Gun
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Commands Divine Duties Our
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Also Animals Becomes Cruel
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Essence Of Vileness Ingratitude
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Bad Begets Even Evil
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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Because Certain Characters Directly
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Favor Few Got Honest
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As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Branches Currents Ebb Electric
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Combine Following Hope Interests
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Concepts Constitute Corresponding Elements
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Blind Concepts Content Empty
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Above Awe Law Me
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Another Guidance Immaturity Incapacity
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Doctrine Happiness Happy How
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Be Happy God Happy Make
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Doing Ethics Guilty He
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Happily Live Long Necessary
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Actions Become Law Life
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Complain He Himself Makes
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Dark Lighthouse Many Metaphysics
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Happiness Ideal Imagination Reason
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We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Allow Bring Connections Delight
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

About American American Society Being
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Fingers Me Simply Thinking
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Believe Books Expect Immortality
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Become Core Critics Crucial
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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

Affected Being Distance Engine
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There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Based Designate Faculty Impression
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It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Ahead Always Applied Basic
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I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Abortion Associate Good Good Life
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In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Abortion Morally Person Physically
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Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Animal Behavior Bringing Child
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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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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Also Any Because Critical
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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Biting Divide Finger Licking
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Background Classic Even Holds
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Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Actually Books Classics Find
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