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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

Am I Am Like Perhaps
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Easy Myth People Publishers
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Churches European Every Exciting
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

About Challenging Experience More
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

Because Invent Lies Possible
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Our life is full of empty space.
Empty Empty Space Full Life
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Believe Defeated Evil Final
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America Australia Because Captain
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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Events Political Today TV
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Age Beginning Enlightenment Modern
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Centuries Each English French
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Dew Flash Human Life
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Church End Falling Go
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Down Find Full Life
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Between China Defects Even
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Defend Intervene Liberty Press
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Animals Business Enjoy Except
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Art Conclusions Drawing Insufficient
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Believe Fully Humans Important
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Aims Enjoy Learned Life
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Anticipation Except Future Memory
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Death Life Must Neither
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Art Exact Life Science
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Before Leap Like Look
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Because Excluded Felicity General
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion Spirituality Without You
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Best Done Easy Forgive
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Appeal Like Logic Perish
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

Astronaut Back Confidence Every
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Christian Doubted Equally General
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Else Enough Fools Knave
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Adolescence Convinced Everyone First
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Actor Business Crazy Dead
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Embryo Life Living Man
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Life is one long process of getting tired.

Getting Life Long Process
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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

Beautiful Believe Even Me
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Against Healthy Instinct Like
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Answer Any Asked Because
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

Basically Buy Got Job
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Before Boundaries Child Had
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

About All Religions Am Buddhism
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I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Athletic Bright Funny Just
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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Austin Austin Powers Comic Like
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Children Everything Family Flows
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Active Actress Actually Around
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

Aggressive Also Defensive Female
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Be Real Character Find Heart
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