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Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

Peace Promoted Limitation Creation
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Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Economic freedom Sacrificed Political
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My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

Apparel Because Emphasis Gays
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Better To fail Originality Succeed
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Cannot Even Literature Must
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I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

Being Certainly Environment Football
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I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

About Around Away Canada
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So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

About Create Creating Detailed
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I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Animal Animals Blame Disney
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I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

Because Blue-Collar Established Filmmaker
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

About Being Case Destroyed
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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

American Politics Biggest He
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I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.

Believe Cardinal Greatly I Believe
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I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

Bill Bill Clinton Came Clinton
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

Actually Church Figure Johnson
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Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

American American Politics Business Debating
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Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

Back Business Campaigning Get
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It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.
Better Hates Married Momma
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I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.

Affiliation Ask Close Convince
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The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers.

About End Goal I Love
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Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.

All Day Around Bore Bunch
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With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.

Almost Almost Everything Armed Armed Forces
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Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

Against Argument Contrary Course
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It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.

Candidate Literally Painful Perry
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
Greatness Immortality Man Only
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The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a little, if you're so inclined.

Anything Away Because Camera
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I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.

Devil How Intense Know
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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Little Soon Would become Big
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

One thing Alone Many ways Freedom
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Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

Military action Politics Tree Root
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Always Slave Live Little
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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

Mingle Little folly Wisdom Pleasant
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As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

We speak Fleeing Believing
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Paradigm Shift – Youth in politics is a discuss every sphere should be having at the moment.

Paradigm shift Youth Politics Moment
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As a government,we accept responsibility . In this instance direct responsibility not fully given to Nidcom It’s a pandemic in which Nigerian travellers were stranded, . Not Nigerians living abroad.. The Minister briefs daily ,addresses concerns ,apologized and will not relent.

Government Accept responsibility Pandemic
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Assume Capabilities Character Common
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Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

About Because Could Decade
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Belongs Both Breeding Candor
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

Becomes Child Citizen Controlling
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Men Great riches Culture Business
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Action Aim Being Citizen
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Being Clearly Deal Ending
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

All-Around Any Around Character
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Abstain Accumulate Add Aid
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Another Boldly Ends Feeling
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All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

Combinations Common Expense Individuals
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It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

About Dangerous Get How
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When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

Crazy Does Even Get
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