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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations

Always Around Brought Happiness
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Ask Grow Literature Live
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When I look at the faces of children, I see endless possibilities. All they need is a little help, a little hope, a little love, and someone who believes in them. God bless the child.

Look Face Children Endless possibilities
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I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Able Active Carter Center
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I think politicians really go with the tide.

Go I Think Politicians Really
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So, the easiest way to waste the future is to churn out millions of semi-illiterates, largely unemployable citizens most of whom seek criminality as the only way to escape the poverty trap.

Easiest way Future Churn Millions
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I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Able Been Carry Commitments
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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Because Bring Disagree Equality
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

About Ceremonies Civil Condemned
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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Bit Cover Fact Few
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The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Answer Around Been Communities
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There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Clear Crystal Doubt Evidence
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No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
Anything Away Ever Gets
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Ability Did Hollywood Interest
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I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.

Any Assess Could Ever
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

Believe Cats Cemetery Dogs
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Political elections are not life and death.

Death Elections Life Life And Death
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Animals Control Events Glorious
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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
After Amazing Another Happened
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I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

Come from Background Loving couples
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I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

I believe Things Care Strong political
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Whatever Happened Innovation Immaculate reality
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There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Movies People Diversion World
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Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Film Tight Little box Gone
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Come Great Humility Nearest
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Art must Parochial Cosmopolitan
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Reality Destroy Dream
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
Man never Free Morality
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.

We trust Reality God Word
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Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

Fable Lord Jesus Friend Satisfied
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When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.
Day Recompense comes Regret Done
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Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

Assured Christianity More than Creeds
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The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

Province Faith Probabilities cease
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I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty

Virtues Nobles qualities I love Exclusive
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Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

Doubts Reality Situation Wondered
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We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

Begun Bought Cheaper Dog
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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Convincing Health Inequality Instability
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Some of us are having a wild time, we are constantly changing while remaining the same…we are a little insane, and love is the reason for the malady.

Wild time Changing Insane Love
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I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa if you see the poverty around us, you can’t afford to be anything else

Politician Socialist Poverty Africa
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It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

Find Happiness Impulsive Life
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There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Better Different DifferentKinds Fit
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Spirituality is when we can't explain everything in life, totally. So, we have a spiritual meaning for it; we don't know why we are here really.

Spirituality.explain Life Meaning
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

About Art Could Fail
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Ability Alive Come Extremely
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Bachelor Been Born Every
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Bachelor Born Ought Politician
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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

Divided Equality Fervor Ideological
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Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

Born Different Different Things Leave
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