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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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When I was 23 years old, I had just finished my wrestling career. I was top 12 in the nation in the NCAA. And I was top 12 in the state in California.

California Career Finished Had
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Become Imagination Inspiration Model
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.

About Article Beasts Began
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I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

Affect Beasts Different Different Way
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

Brain Build Character Close
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Arts Encouraged Had Helped
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Logic Get Imagination Take
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Imagination Intelligence Knowledge Sign
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination Important Knowledge More
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We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.

Across Airport Bridges Build
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

American Could Directors Discrimination
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Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country.

Abandoned Factory Across Better
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I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

Actually Firing Generation Imagined
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A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Birth Certificate Imagination Live
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Anything Embarked Explanation Life
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Artist Distinguishes First Great
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Apartment Becomes Fate First
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

Act Believe Blowing Bomber
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Awareness Change Choose Conscience
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

History Imagination Live Out
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eautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year…the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Nature Wonder
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There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.

Allied Entirely Experienced Having
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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Civilization Earth Environment Frost
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There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.

Banned Cannot Communal Consensus
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Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.

Ability Anything Big Big Deal
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Account Country Deal Explanation
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

Barriers Beat Begin Between
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Away Beautiful Block Elimination
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We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

About America Change Good
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To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture--a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Ability Almost Apparent Beings
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Acquiesce Consent Control Deployed
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Become Corporate Death Guard
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Alternatives Behave Exhausted History
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Ruled Often Truer Governed
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Best Certain Every Marked
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Evolved Fear Fraud Friend
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

An Imagination Led Mob
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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Because Great Growth Human
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Nations Main Campaign Long
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Counsel Despair Determination Diligence
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Good He Him Inclination
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Being Combination Dumb Life
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Avoiding Being Combination Coming
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Civil Civil Service Examination Federal
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

British Felt Identity Interested
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In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

Action Affect Around Attitude
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In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Basic Confident Excellence Fitness
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