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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Afraid Alone Good Marriage
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Book Daughter First First Of All
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What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Brain Good Out Speed
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Best Blessings General God
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Destroy Easily Make Power
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Book Easy Just Offended
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Book Ignore Like Offer
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Church Event Moon Photograph
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Chiefly Good Good Life Life
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Corners Easy Escapes Fuss
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Bad Bad One Become Get
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Become Books Clearly Concerned
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

Anywhere Beautiful Big Countryside
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

About Always Because Books
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Catholic Childhood Last Sense
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Appear Desire Endeavor Gain
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Armed Combat Decide Engage
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A Good Man After Death Either
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Dare Footing Lose Oneself
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Books Language Man Shaped
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Alone Concept Doom Invented
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

America Book Come Europe
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Begins Birth Could Cry
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Boredom Despairing Evil Oneself
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Being Evil Far Good
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

About Complaint Even Me
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If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Actually Gain Huge I Can
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

As Far As Caught Else Everyone
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You have been praying for your leaders and their families, it's time you pray for yourself and your family; you too deserve to live.

Praying Leaders Families Pray
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

School Teacher Facial Features
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

You See Black Family
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I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

Didn't Want To Play
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Pretty Calculating Take Stuff
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Micheal Jordan Basketball Power
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Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Why Someone Good One
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Would Never Want Book
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I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

Don't Even Listen Rap
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Feel Like Busy Too
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Don't Have Be Scared
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Ages Books Burned Burning
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Built Civilization Extent Impossible
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Any Cannot Childhood Father
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Being Entirely Exercise Good
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Conflicts Emotions Flowers Look
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Awareness Change Choose Conscience
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I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
Believe Coach Football Football Coach
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

First Seek Then Understand
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