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In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Become Creative Decorating Eventually
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I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

Ability Activity Circle Embrace
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Being Course Girl Like
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

Ability Away Great Just
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Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Adolescence Based Because Bill
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With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

Acting Great Horrible Just
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Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Camaraderie Differences Everything Great
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At the end of the day, the quality of life you live is what matters, not how many arguments you won. Build your life.

End Quality Matters Arguments
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Stand with swag… Work with purpose… Pray in humility… And soon, It’ll all come together.

Stand with Swag Purpose Humility
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Freeze out the negativity and see life’s purpose a little bit clearer.

Freeze out Negativity Life Clearer
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Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.

Abandon Days Addicted Things
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The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our thoughts. What we expect from life is what we manifest.

Quality Our lives Thought Expect
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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

America Ancestors Came Eighteen
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I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

Affairs Am Answer Any
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Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.

Google Kind Little Myself
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It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

Any Disgusting Dry Father
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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Am American Audience Color
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Businessman Businessmen Came Doctor
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Between Break Cause Child
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I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

Also Amount Big Country
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

Child Child Labor Growth Illiteracy
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Accountability Across Against Child
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I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

Am Behind Chair Children
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All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

Spiritual things Sacred dignity Humility
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A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.

Christian True humility Gentleness Christ
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Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

Child Dignity Education Equality
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High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Eternal things Little weight Youth
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Eat Fishes Great GreatOnes
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God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

God tests Common occurrences Little things
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Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

Done Pure love Contemptible Men
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A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

About Glory Good Greatest
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Because Interest Just JustBecause
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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Action Capable Only People
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We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Assumes Economic Future Idea
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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

Pattern Coherent Easier Little
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Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Associations Different Emotions Evoke
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I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

Based Best Comedy Reality
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One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Progress Sense Better Things
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I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

Election Get How Interested
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Physically, my character is stronger than him which is totally unrealistic, ... Because in reality he can ... kill me. I think it has a lot to do with (him being) the youngest of all of his brothers, and I think he got beat up a lot.

Physically Unrealistic Character Beat
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

After Age Any Better
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If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

About Always Another Any
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Desperation Instinct Possibility Disguise
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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Account Army Beatles Bells
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Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

Sit down Satan Arise Elevated standard
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I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

Admit Better Getting Got
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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Courteous Dad Guy Kind
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

Ability Fats His Humor
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

Always Appreciate Bad Could
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It's got more cosmopolitan, and it's lost its uniqueness, but Australia is still a great place.

Australia Cosmopolitan Got Great
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