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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Any Calling Intimate Knowledge
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Because Containing Face Invested
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Amount Any Bloody Intelligence
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Better Bombing Bringing Child
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Bigger is always better.

Always Better Bigger
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I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Evil Genius He Jamie
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

About Each Each Time First
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Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Always Apartheid Change Countries
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Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

About Entrepreneurship All Gratification
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Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it's not my thing; it's an ANC policy.

About Implement Leader Policy
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Am Convinced Creature Cries
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Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

Agencies Bad Corruption Dealt
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Afraid Been Daughters Eve
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
About Being Geek Learning
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

Absolutely Community Dear Embraced
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I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

Building Deadline Decades Learned
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Jazz Black Classical
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Spent Pursuing Classical
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

Appreciate Clinging Day Discovering
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
Believe I
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SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

Brothers BrothersAndSisters Got Great
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Tale Passion Tell Mind
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Access Direct Life Taboo
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Burn Live Living Desire
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze drifting' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good

Birds Flying Sky Breeze
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
Talent Burden Joy Planet
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God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Beautiful Compare Crazy CrazyPeople
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My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

Adam AdamSandler Good-Looking Name
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Also Although Full Overcoming
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Any BeginningBeyond Boats Broken
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Children Crime Thing Waste
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.

He Who Hesitate Is
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Marriage Great Institution But
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Business Exciting Life Lived
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Between Difference Else Everybody
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open

Alliance Entered Man Marriage
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Always Believes Bible Convinced
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Affairs Before Breath Does
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
Becoming Life Lively Process
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Across Lived Miles Potent
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Believed Critic Criticism
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

Absolute Being Candidate Equal
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Music Gift Burden Remember
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Science is about unravelling nature.

About Unraveling Nature Science
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

About Better Comfort Cost
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The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

About Chosen Citizens Competence
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Advantage Great GreatAdvantage Home
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Three Playing Piano Onstage
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