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Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

Began Consider Earth Having
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Also Although Arts Away
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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Anyone Books Exclude Excluded
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We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Badness Becomes Cope Good
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Common Denominator Football Lowest
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I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

Am Gloomy Just People
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Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

Her Make Mitchell Own
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I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
About Close Detail Enough
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If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

Book Done Every Found
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When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

Book Else Read Says
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Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine.
Either Gets How Internal
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Situation Problem Certain Exist
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Executives Scientist Business school Believe
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Mistakes Inadequacies Perception Logic
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Motivation Willingness Stop
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Surprised Attention Philosophers Humor
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Opportunities Occur Crowd
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Complexity Inefficient Mental energy
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Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

Answer Cool CoolGuy Good
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When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

Else Episodes Going Good
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Unhappiness Difference Talent Expectations
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I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

Big BigFan Buster Fan
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Great deal Children Problem Original solution
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Humor Characteristic Human mind
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don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

Audience Hear Know Listening
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A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Painter World Craftsman People
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For your home to be sustained, you must lay your foundation upon the Rock, in the person of Jesus Christ. By making Jesus Christ the central focus in your home and allowing Him to take His rightful place.

Home Sustained Foundation Rock
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Whatever your situation or circumstance right now, you must settle it in your heart that the future God has planned for you is a glorious one. I rejoice with you!

Situation Future God Plan
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A fundamental truth that you must understand about child training is that it is a commandment from God. It is not a piece advice, a suggestion or a thing you do at your convenience.

Truth Training Commandment God
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At times submission in marriage may appear as foolishness to the world, to the believer it is wisdom. By this wisdom, many women have won their husbands to the Lord and several have kept their homes from falling apart.

Submission Foolishness Believer Wisdom
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An important step to locating a marriage partner is to make yourself as good as the type of person you desire. Think and consider if you constitute a right person to be sought after.

Marriage Partner Type Person
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To be successful, you must first understand that you did not just happen; you were made. You are a high-tech product packaged to perform certain well-defined functions. Since no product determines its purpose, you cannot determine your purpose, you discover it

Successful Happen Happen Perform
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Longevity on earth and eternity with God are both tied to the honour given by children to their parents.

Longevity Eternity Honour Children
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Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.

Attached Need People Person
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

Able Also Been Come
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Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

Big BigBudget Blue Budget
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I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

Cause Chapter Different Get
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As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Actor Anything Average Exciting
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Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

Ever Fan FanMail Jim
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I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.

Always Beat Content Eye
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In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger. Neil Patrick Harris

Ate Burger Mostly Occasional
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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

All-American Average Career Chunk
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I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

Able Fairy Get Gotten
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I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

Another Beverly Books Demographic
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I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

Being Gone Had IRemember
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What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
Changing Constantly Defines Involved
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A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

Always Bar Class Club
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I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

Best Cruise Guy Karaoke
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I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

Awards Definitely Done Door
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