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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Age Airplane Any Artists
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

Country Creations Economically Generation
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National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Bad Defense Direction Everything
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Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Better Better Way Bulgaria Chances
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These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

Acts Any Appalling Both
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Believe Desire I Think Idioms
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We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

About Black Conversation Everywhere
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Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

Anxiety Cannot Chest Cross
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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Does Dominant Even First
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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Easier Even Expected Inaccessible
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I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
Backup Because Lead Lead Singer
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Became Because Child Everyone
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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Because Grew How Like
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

Am Children Composer Daughter
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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Accept Always Avoided Being
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I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

Absolutely Absolutely Not Am Difficult
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Actually Almost Anybody Best
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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Artists Belief Delightful Given
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
Get Ideas Me
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Age Book Depends Experience
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Fact Full Future Notion
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Easy Fake Inner Nothing
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Adventures Canada Encouraged Large
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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Attacked Dog Every Fewer
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Communal Defend Doctrine Every
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Achievements Been Before Century
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What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

About Conservative Declaration Full
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

An anarchist Politics Impressionist
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Tell you Truth Trinity Accept
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No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Man Politics Honestly
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I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Wonder Kinder World Needs
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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Life Isolate Among men Trouble
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As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Back Building Country Elections
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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Aggressive American AmericanTradition Another
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There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

Come Creator Freedom Government
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Superiority Man's opinion Never
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Mind anything Anyone else Judge
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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

AllThings Conservatism Constitution Describing
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Task Leader People Where
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Matter True Counts Perceived
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It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Nations learn Past Draw Correct conclusions
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned.

Statesman Arguments Convincing End
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Judge people Excellence Distance Traveled
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Books Furniture Beautifully furnishes
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Library Luxury Necessities Life
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Love Endure indifference Lamp
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Greatness Being strong Use Strength
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Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.
Because Debt Exploding Medicare
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Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

Bubble Correction Created Federal
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