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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Come Help Hint Obscurity
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?

Each Function Weapons Gotta
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Beings Home Human Planet
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

Dust Enormity Numerous Sand
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Arbitrary Between Boundary Earth
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

It Is What It Is Marriages More Regret
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Diverse Fortune Good Good Fortune
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

About Candidates CNN Come
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When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

Disappointment Discouraged Things Try
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

Better Men Office Planet
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For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Businesses Create Creating Difference
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
Adolescence Big Just Pimple
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Could Country Cure Diseases
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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
Comedy Plus Time Tragedy
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Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

Growing Journalist Know Want
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Contempt Culture Require Disrespect
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Defeat Non-Violence Thing Such
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There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

Farm Jungle Labor Law
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Awesome Become Choose Discouraged
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Because Changed Driven Energy
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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

Disguise Grapes Hidden Human
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Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

Benefits Consumer Corporations Force
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

Always Fight Grapes Lettuce
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Character Exact Growth Language
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cherish Community Cultural Nation
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
Derogatory Fight Start Thing
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Best Better Book Consist
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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Admit Belong Determines Honest
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Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

Church Fault Help Wealth
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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.

Act Belief Convinced Courage
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Back Best Buying Cable
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Environment Equitable Everybody Generous
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

Business Crisis Everybody Had
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

Apart Believe Better Country
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Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.

Children Demonstrate Effects Else
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

Business CNN Grew Half
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

About Destroying Elephants Environment
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Artist Hard Intellectual Says
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Back Bar Bunch Dice
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Basically Because Feel Free
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There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Bodies Course Crowd Cuts
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The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
Against Female Loves Man
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Betrayal Exploration Feels Female
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The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Against Fear Humor Thing
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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