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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Colonial Country Fight Gain
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy Half More People
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Arab Spring Bit Country
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Becomes Christmas Difficult Every
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

Any Beyond Book Business
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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

About America Career Job
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

Always Diversity Fantasy Genre
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Facts Form Get Great
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Agreement Among Countries Disagreement
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Character Come King Move
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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Give good counsels and advice but leave people to make their own decisions..some people never learn until they “learn lessons”.

Learn Never People Advice
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Along Friend Good Good Writer
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Enemy Most Things Time-Consuming
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck Men Mention Presence
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

About Bright Bright Future Feel
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
Become Before Eighteen Father
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.

Impress Me Memories People
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Childhood Doorway Full Met
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

Awards Care Cool Doing
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

About Absolutely American Believes
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Across Education English Getting
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Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

Catastrophe Climate Creating Employment
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Acquainted Club Easier He
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

Begins Creation Creatures Economics
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Begin Change Disappearing History
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Along Climbs Creative CreativePeople
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Adjustment Insane Insanity Perfectly
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I don't fear media or arrest, not any threat. Am born for this. I will fight those who fight Christians and true Christians will join me.

Fight Media Fear Born
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Acquainted Actually Assume Become
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Become Begins Conscious Freedom
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Men are looking for better methods, God is looking for better men. Men are God's method. Use me Lord.

Better God Men Looking
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I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

Could Darkest Fact Iraq
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A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Can Look Lot Negative
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Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

America Ever Individuals Know
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Away Freedom Measured Number
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Above Contents Examining Mental
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Everything Existing Fact Filled
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

Absolutely Amount Clear Desire
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Arms Debates Disarmament Imperative
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Farmer Good Handy Less
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Acceptance Adjustment Age Atom
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
His Made Mine Our
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

After Altered Changed Color
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

Dangerous Destroy Inadequate Mankind
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