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I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Abortion Associate Good Good Life
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Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Animal Behavior Bringing Child
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Anything Concentrate Does Else
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Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Alike Always Answers Ask
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Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Cannot Day Every Every Day
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The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Among Certainly Desirable Difficult
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Been Great Inventions Made
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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

About Because Book Compare
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I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

Anyone AnyoneElse Because Characters
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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Strength Civilization Measured Ability
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Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

Someone looks Acts differently Ugly
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
Message Worms Inherit Earth
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If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Tell Truth Start talking
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Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Pride Worst Sins Interesting ones
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When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

Working on Period Depression Keep busy
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Actually Believe Bit Could
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Talent Human being Character
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If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?

Audience Funny Fall
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

The world Based on Fairness Human being
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

Love acting Fantasy Kind Realistic
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Never thought God Believe Devils
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Cannot say Get better Change Must
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Person reveals Character Joke Resents
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

One must Judge men Opinions
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Falls Character Man Badly
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Nothing can Contribute Peace Soul
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Nothing makes Old Thought Growing older
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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Accurate Been Being Believe
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Convinced Love Ourselves Hate
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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

About Bite Children Denying
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Attendance Bed Belief Brain
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Called An acute Human nature
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Receive applause Works Demand Power
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Man Masterpiece Creation Believe
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I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I.

Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Actually Am
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

Because Control Could Creative
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I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot.

Back Balloon Best BestFriend
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For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

Band Did Exist Felt
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Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

Because Being Drummer Ever
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You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

Get Going Happen Markets
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I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.

Believe Born Child IWasBorn
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We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Around Doing Environmentally Good
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Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Am Because Days Dealing
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Difficult Enjoy Keep Living
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Never try to win over those who dislike you for your convictions and beliefs. They’re not the barometer of life. The best way to treat them is to ignore them whilst firmly defending those beliefs until their anger turns to solemn resignation and their hatred turns to quiet admiration

Never try Win Dislike Conviction
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My personal view is that another total lockdown would be counterproductive. Before defeating the virus, we must learn to live with it all around us and practice the skills of avoiding it like a landmine. Practice makes perfect. We cannot perfect those skills by locking ourselves up

Personal view Lockdown Counterproductive
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