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Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

Ability Cultivate Endowed Every
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What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

About Alive Become Building
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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

Care Community Destroyed Government
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Anyone Aware Become Despair
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One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Caring Compassionate Conservatives Less
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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

After America Because Economic
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The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

America Circumstances Come Essence
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Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

Attack Choose Co-Operation Cooperate
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I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

Afforded Been Conservative Daughter East
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Anything Disregard Economics Enough
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Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.

Course Enemy Europeans Hamas
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Detest Dishonesty Fare Honest
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

America Bracket Decade Imagine
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

About Concentrated Fact Find
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

About Assume Believe Care
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Barbarians Before Born Civilization
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Because Could Did Greater
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Agreement Little Politics Pulpit
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Founded Frugality Limits Principal
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Roles Society Soldiers Tendency
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Arena Cause Difficult Distant
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution

Citizen Country Fight Leaders Life
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

Contain Ensure Federal Financial
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

Between Dealing Distinct Easily
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Family Following Give Healthy
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Being Blood Fierce Fiery
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Another Balance Bit Else
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Ability Cycle Evolving Get
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Empire Go Great Ill
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Frame Hasty How Judgment
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Appearance Fully Governed Know
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Currency Government Evils Greatest
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Does Gives Him Immortality
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Ever God Important Individual
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Abandon Absolutely Appalled Brain
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Been Best Done Has-Been
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Anything Invent Proof Sale
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Ability Far More Opportunity Than
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Biggest Human Little Settle
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Noticed Often Original Originality
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
About Egos Elites Masses
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Simply Become Competence Daily
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Analysis Else Existence Fails
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Conscience Demands Difficult Fidelity
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Artificial Humility Makes Pride
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