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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Always Clutch Excuse Hearth
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Expense Gratified Instinct Claim
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Capitalists Criminals Cut Enemies
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Humility Infinitely Listening Lying
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Attentive Being Courage God
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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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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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An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company.

Average Company Details Exceptional
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Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Absolutely Being Critical Front
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It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Exciting Friendship God Grows
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Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

About Children Consider Fame
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No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Knows Listening Wish Newspapers
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

After Cycle Deep Democracy
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Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Believe Dealt Death Fear
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Accomplish Alone Anything Commanding
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I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.

Everything Funk Grew Listening
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I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

Am Clay Complete Easiest
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If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

About Childhood Come Compassion
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Entertainment Joke Listen Lonesome
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

Advice Choose Clothes Time
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

Latin Like Listen Lot
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

Always Basis Change Listen
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If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

Advocate Despair Gentleness Hate
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I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.

Always Autism College College Professor
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Ears Less Listen More
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I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Capitalist Decided Rather Really
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

Boundaries Good Know Realistic
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Against Capitalist Commercial Directed
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Artist Cannot Deals Does
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
Because Die Like Lists
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After a loss, you have to reassess a little bit and be realistic.
After Bit Little Little Bit
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Feeling Important Language Listen
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Ask Clinical Environment How
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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Listen Matter Second Best
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I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.
Feel Listen Lot People
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No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Author Busy Closely Coming
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Basically what I'm trying to tell you is that it's almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you're in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don't recommend it.

Almost Basically Being Besides
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I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

African-American Because Ear Greater
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It's not just my music. Not everyone just listens to grime now 'cause of Skepta. They like how we speak. They like the slang. They like how we dress. They listen to the music. It's everything.

Cause Dress Everyone Everything
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Begins Birth Could Cry
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I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

Don't Even Listen Rap
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Another Back Emotional Giving
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There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Companies Data Ethical Expectations
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Listen with your eyes for feelings.
Eyes Feelings Listen Your
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I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

Love Being Stage Able
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India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.

Basis Come Doing India
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Girls: If your boyfriend is a good listener….he's probably thinking of something else when you're talking.

Girls Boyfriend Good listener Thinking
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If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

Also Beauty Creativity Editor
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.

Going To Gym Wouldn't
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