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There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

Constitution Order Protect Privacy
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

Communist Sense Science Innocent
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

School Teach Children Basic Skills
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

Online Years Uploading Archive
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

Big Business Political Access
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Exposure Young Age Realities World
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

Confusing Money Period Ability
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Knowledge Power Astonishing Little
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Indulge Supposition Morality Caution
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

Think Teach Children Begin
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True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Humility Intimacy God Bring
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Labor Alive Conscience Little
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate Quality Reputation Better
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Political System Right People
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There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Science Literature Patronage Promotion
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Window Reality Effect Music
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Political True Using Precious
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Canada Wonderful Political Faith
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Fiction Reality Interpret Volition
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Dream Judged Children Nation
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Acceptance Looks Passive State
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Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.

Love Bring Real Calm
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I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it’s because I’m as old as I am! But it’s just polite.

Touch Fast Chivalry Sound
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A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

Lady Look Compliment Eye
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So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.

Fast Feet Image Mirror
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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Love Fall Because Reality
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I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.

Calm Complete Day Live
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

About Government Only People
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Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

Never Curse A Ground
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

Acceptable Ballet Cultural Dirt
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I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.

Think Space Should Believe
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The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

Religion Love Patience Tolerance
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We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Weird Love Life Someone
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

House I Think Keeps Kids
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It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

Heat Humility
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The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

True Joy Moonlight Something
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The size of a socialite’s backside is indirectly proportional to the size of her brain.

Size Brain Backside Back
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Give, even if you only have a little.

Little Only Give Even
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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Drop Water Pot Wise
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Solitude Happy Compose Delight
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

Rise Die Least Sick
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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

Ability Delay Short Term
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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Reach Good Very Money
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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Feeling Believe Your You
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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Future Apply People Deevelop
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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Life Part Total Every
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Communication is a skill that you can learn. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

Skill Learn Work Improve
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The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.

Key Else Future Think
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Wealth Ability Around Affect
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