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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Advisor Allowed Friends Had
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The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

Argument Driver Economic Only
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Astronomer Careful Celestial Compose
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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Any Book Case Changed
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Also Although Arts Away
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We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Badness Becomes Cope Good
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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Bitter Disappointment Fan Football
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Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

Her Make Mitchell Own
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The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Awful Blame Books Find
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When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

Book Else Read Says
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Memory Left Happens Completely
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Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine.
Either Gets How Internal
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Situation Problem Certain Exist
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Argument Reveal Create
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Surprised Attention Philosophers Humor
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Complexity Inefficient Mental energy
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Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

Answer Cool CoolGuy Good
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Need Right Biggest Bar
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

Teaching Unemployed youngsters
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Great deal Children Problem Original solution
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Marriage is meant to advance, increase and promote you. It is not a necessary evil as you may have heard and probably believed. Rather, it is designed to make life complete for you.

Marriage Advance Promote you Evil
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Parents, please know that children need to be molded skillfully and tenderly to become a battle axe in the hands of God.

Parents Children Need Skillfully
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For your home to be sustained, you must lay your foundation upon the Rock, in the person of Jesus Christ. By making Jesus Christ the central focus in your home and allowing Him to take His rightful place.

Home Sustained Foundation Rock
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A fundamental truth that you must understand about child training is that it is a commandment from God. It is not a piece advice, a suggestion or a thing you do at your convenience.

Truth Training Commandment God
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At times submission in marriage may appear as foolishness to the world, to the believer it is wisdom. By this wisdom, many women have won their husbands to the Lord and several have kept their homes from falling apart.

Submission Foolishness Believer Wisdom
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When a man understands the nature of his wife and works according to that understanding, problems are less likely to arise in their home.

Man Wife Understands Problems
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Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.

Attached Need People Person
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

Able Also Been Come
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Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

Big BigBudget Blue Budget
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I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

Able Any Biggest Critic
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As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Actor Anything Average Exciting
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I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

Assistant Game Like Scheduling
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I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

Actor Any Case Choose
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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

All-American Average Career Chunk
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I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

Able Fairy Get Gotten
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I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

Being Gone Had IRemember
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A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

Always Bar Class Club
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There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

Creativity Gay Get Going
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We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

Bit Blessed Doing Everyday
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I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

Best Dance Hours ILove
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I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.
Dance Destroys IThink Impressive
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I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.

About Challenge Equal Exactly
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My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

Ages Dance Everyone Favorite
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I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

Acting Head Heart IThink
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I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

Carving Children Chunks Go
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Sometimes we remember to stop, and breathe

Sometimes Stop Breathe
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I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.

Agenda Camera Down Example
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Fashion for me means comfort. I love to look presentable and be comfortable in whatever I wear.

Fashion Means Comfort Presentable
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Having to become a totally different person at a short notice is quite challenging…

Totally Person Challenging
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