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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Facts Form Get Great
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Having wrong friends and yet expecting a great future is like building a house using inferior materials.

Future Great Wrong Friends
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Accolades Anyone Internal Journey
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Agreement Among Countries Disagreement
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One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Character Come King Move
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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Give good counsels and advice but leave people to make their own decisions..some people never learn until they “learn lessons”.

Learn Never People Advice
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Along Friend Good Good Writer
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Enemy Most Things Time-Consuming
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck Men Mention Presence
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

Core Difference Fantasy Like
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.

Impress Me Memories People
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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

Exploit Inequality Long Other
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Chickens Discouraging Know Literature
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Don't be competitive, take life easy. Avoid rat race because even if you win the race, you are still a rat.

Win Race Life Easy
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Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

Defend Democracy Developing Free
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

Ability Any Blow Child
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

Character Connect Dragon Dwarf
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Greatness begins with a vision. It's your dream that produces your future.
Future Vision Dream Begins
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

Awards Care Cool Doing
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Avoid Change Common Instinctively
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Even Gives Grapes Joy
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Across Education English Getting
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Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

Catastrophe Climate Creating Employment
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Acquainted Club Easier He
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Actually Any Because Church
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

Begins Creation Creatures Economics
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Begin Change Disappearing History
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Along Climbs Creative CreativePeople
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Adjustment Insane Insanity Perfectly
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Achieved Alienation Beings Destiny
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Life Need Only Really Succeeded
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I don't fear media or arrest, not any threat. Am born for this. I will fight those who fight Christians and true Christians will join me.

Fight Media Fear Born
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Any Asset Beauty Deep
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Anything Conscious Enslaved Freed
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Yesterday might be a ridicule, today an obstacle, but tomorrow is a miracle. Don't give up.

Miracle Give Today Obstacle
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Acquainted Actually Assume Become
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Become Begins Conscious Freedom
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Door Honest Just Just Be
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Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. The proof of knowledge is unconditional love.

Love Care Know Proof
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Don't let what people say about you define your views of yourself. People's opinion is not credit alert. It doesn't add value or take from you.

Value Credit Define People
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A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
About Before Give Going
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A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Can Look Lot Negative
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Actor Because Day Fleeting
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