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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Whatever True Dangerous Near truth
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.
Books Windows Soul Looks out
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Boredom Death Existential Like
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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

About Contemplate Enjoy Facts
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By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

1980s Always Any Appreciate
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Win, lose, or tie, you’re gonna play like champions!

Win Lose Play Champions
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
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Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible.

Any Father Him His
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I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.

Affluent Africa Am Bit
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I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.
Anything Artist Like Never
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Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

Our soul Orphans Mothers die
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Go out of your way to be kind to ordinary people like gatemen, secretaries and cleaners. They may not have money and power to give you, but they can direct you to where to get money and power. But do it because it is the right thing to do anyway

Go out Your way Kind Gate men
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One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

Diamond Different Likes Maximum
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Also Free Like People
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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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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

Write Wind blows Command words
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Friendship disappears Space Open Loneliness
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I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Being Citizen Like Second-Class
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It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

After Day Demand Driver
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At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Any Arrested Day Had
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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Accuse Acting Being Causing
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I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

Because Blue-Collar Established Filmmaker
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Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Being Deep Different DifferentThings
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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

Air Balls Certain Certain Point
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To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

Back Convince Create Energy
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Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

Bet Bill Bill Clinton Clinton
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

Actually Church Figure Johnson
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Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

Airport Beat Before Connection
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My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.

Any Been Cape Day
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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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With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.

Almost Almost Everything Armed Armed Forces
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But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Behavior Come Conception Far
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You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

Always Away Be Yourself Done
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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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But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Like Great success Jealous The gods
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Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

Military action Politics Tree Root
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I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

Any Consider Good Judge
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I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you've got to behave in a way that... the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you've got to have someone to save you.

Always Behave Desperately Got
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If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.

Accept Discrimination Evolution Exists
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

About Actually Anything Because
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Make yourself so busy that you do not notice those who dislike you for their selfish reason, because life is too short to be wasted by giving attention to the nay sayers.

Make yourself Notice Dislike you Selfish reason
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The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.
Ask Cancer Causes Come
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The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Any Better Fact Get
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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Cats Cities Like Night
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Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
Bargain Battles Discussed Rarely
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Day Every EveryDay Get
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My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
After Artist Exciting Label
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And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Destroy Going Life Like
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I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.
Even Feel I Feel Like
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