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If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

Continue Going Instead Motivation
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I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'

Could Less Okay People
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People who have nothing to lose in life are as dangerous as suicide bombers.
Nothing to lose Life Dangerous Suicide
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Animal Animals Conceive Convince
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Consider Did Middle Myself
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Ability Did Hollywood Interest
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I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Best Come General Give
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Political elections are not life and death.

Death Elections Life Life And Death
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
After Amazing Another Happened
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Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.

Two wrong Right Make Left
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It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
Great day White people Black Latinos
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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

About black White Many people Mixed backgrounds
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Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Working hard Very important Get anywhere
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Story Star wars Classic one Retold
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A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

People Certain things Keep going Good
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Arts Been Every Go
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The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Secret Give up Something worthwhile
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Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Changes Unusual Movies Release them
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I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
Spent My time School daydreaming Living
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Child Discouraged Every God
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Child Dismiss First First Time
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I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Realized Director Horrible people Right
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Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoid the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

Everyone seems Digital technology Medium Content
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Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

Whenever You do Something People
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race Religion Policemen Priests
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Believe Universal religion Language Feeling
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.

We trust Reality God Word
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The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.

Lord Jesus Worse Grace Christ
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Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

Fable Lord Jesus Friend Satisfied
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The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great

Joy Answers Prayer Impetus
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God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

God Pleased continually Mode Dealing
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I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

Desire Many things Heart filled Love
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If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

We desire Faith Strengthened Shrink
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When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.
Day Recompense comes Regret Done
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When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

God Overcomes Our difficulties Assurance
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God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops

God Orders Steps
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Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

Faith Operate Possible Glory
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If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

Honest Heart Uprightness God
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Tear out Single page Life Book
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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Nothing resembles Selfishness Self respect
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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

My body Hands Actions Strongest
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The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

World Understand me Greatly matter
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I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty

Virtues Nobles qualities I love Exclusive
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And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Refused Sacrifices Valuable Peace
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Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

Doubts Reality Situation Wondered
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When someone is not free to do what they feel like doing, like every other person on the street, it causes depression which can even lead to death.

Someone Free Feel Depression
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You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings.

Been Beings Cyberspace Different
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You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Good Good Reason Other People
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