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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Blessed Young Shall inherit National debt
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I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'
Blessed Campaigning Existence Felt
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I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

Have written Wicked book Lamb
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It is not in doubt, that our health workers and personnel are the true heroes making the most priceless sacrifices on the war against coronavirus. Their welfare should be given priority attention if we must record remarkable success in this COVID-19 fight.

Health workers True heroes Priceless scarifies
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Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

Deep Diamonds Except Fill
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Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.
Africa Businesses Certainty Clearly
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Against Desire Fingers Had
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In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

Truth Mature man Hair oil Medicinally
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

Balances Brooding Civil Civil Servants
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I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

About Around Away Canada
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If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

Bad Child Childless Die
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It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

Any Efforts Enterprise Ever
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The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their highest potential. I set examples by the way I lead my life.

Accepts Against Any Anyone
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Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Boundless Compared Human Human Imagination
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Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Almost Any Certainly Choose
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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

Different Directing Narrative Piece
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I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.

Cameras Creating Different Effects
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.

About Backwards Ever Forward
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The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.

American Bush Disastrous Ever
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Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them, and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.

Never wade Pretty ripples Flowing rivers
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STOP letting folk make you think your discernment is off. You know what you see! You are too anointed to be disappointed. Too blessed to be stressed. And, too grateful to be hateful!

Folk Stop Discernment Too blessed
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Better Noble Risk Evils
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Men trust Ears Eyes
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Mankind Troubles Market Exchanging them
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No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Senseless Choose War Peace
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Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.

Happened In love Wife Fairest woman
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Planned badly Fortune Stroke Luck
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

Look End Everything God
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The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

Ears Men Lesser agents Belief
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Accepted Adherence Based Everyone
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Become Complicated Dealing I Think
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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Through life Master Happy man
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I have been much blessed.
Been Have Blessed Much
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Almighty. On this blessed day, help us to realize our Ramadan goal in getting closer to You. Soften the hearts of those who’ve yet to feel the sweetness of this month; don’t let them give in to despair.

Almighty Blessed day Realize Getting closer
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Being able to see the good side of things even at the toughest of times is really a blessing from Allah.
Being able See Good side Toughest
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Assume Capabilities Character Common
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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

Answer Become Cannot Care
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Impossible Enslave Mentally Human freedom
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Accord Borne Engine Excellent
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We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

One people Freedom Slavery
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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Boasting Noble deeds Ugly fact Iniquitous
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Breathless Grass Hill Kissed
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Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
Bargain Battles Discussed Rarely
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Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

Acting Always Art Art Form
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I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

Angeles English Film Going
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God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

America Australia Bless Christ
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

Acting Actor Because Bounds
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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Animals Be Kind Care Child
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I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Animals Children Dependent Helpless
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