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Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

Also Economic Freedom Liberty
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Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Above Communism Compassion Everywhere
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
Generation Next Next Generation Raising
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Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Bringing Equality Generation Men
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

Answer Asked Feelings Honestly
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Originality Confuse Never Aim
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I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Choice Controlling Equality Essential
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Autonomy Controlling Denying Equality
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Depend Essence External External Things
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
Ability Advance Anger Annoyance
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Character Determine Example Follow
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Greater Heaven Little Little Things
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Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'

Constitution Could Crucial Expressions
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

Court Get Little Sitting
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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

Chances Concern Considered Diminished
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The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

Alone Certain Courtroom Eight
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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Around Carrying Corpse Little
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Escape Eyes Only Others
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People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

About Bit Even Feel
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Ability Creativity Introduce Nature
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I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

Actually Always Been Elizabeth
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I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

Before Child Creator Even
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There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
Aggression Antiquity Bred Evolutionary
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But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

Constrained Felt Idea Little
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I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.

Am Day Every Every Day
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It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

About British Describe Experimenting
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There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

Doors People Personality
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In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

Art Matter Violent
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I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.

Spiritual Crazy Inspiration
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We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

Got Clear Some Room
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Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Musicians Run Can State
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The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.

About Assemble Little Now
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Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Age Carry Claimed Could
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Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Politics The Only Field
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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

And Musicians Better Run
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Brings False Heart Joyous
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Being Fellow Fellow Men Former
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ability Almost Always Cowardice
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Alcohol Down Flame Go
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

American American Literature Book Huckleberry Finn
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If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Always Blunt Candid Confidentiality
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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Advice Based Could Debates
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Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Able Any Certainly Job
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Finishing Gets Oblivion Olympics
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Found Played Politics Rules
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Dont just listen to sensual music focusing on sex, parties and materialism. They keep you in the soulish realm where there's little inspiration. Listen to music focusing on love, sacrifice and courage. It stirs up the divine and inspires greatness

Inspiration Sensual Love Greatness
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Business Cynical Dirty Politics
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Brought Cereal Controversial Family
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Choices Die Ends Lives
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The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.

Means Resources Weapons Beat
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