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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

About Again Book Books
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Any Assurance Built Entertaining
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

About Feeling Like People
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Cannot Cared Disease Drought
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally
Wise Man Fool Finally
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

About As Far As Discontented Far
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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Air Alone Befall Course
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Climb Get Good Mountains
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Away Awhile Break Clean
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The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

Also Begin Damage Few
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

Any Away Bark Cannot
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Hatred Gained Good Work
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Bark Birds Brush Centuries
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Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Animal Clean Earth Eating
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Adventurous Armed Beasts Came
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The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

Birds Board Cherry Cost
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In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Avalanche Came Danger End
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One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Best Broad Climb Close
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I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

Anything Bread Considered Days
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

Baptist Beauty Care Eager
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I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

About Afraid Because Book
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I am too old to think.

Am I Am Old Think
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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

Back Bible Get Giving
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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Against Art Be True Bible
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Ability Man Poor Wealth
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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

About Army Book Church
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All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
Get High Life Low
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

About Books Keep New
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I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Aware Bad Good Good And Bad
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My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

Around Away Eyesight Going
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Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Beautiful Beauty Consider Deep
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I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

Just Want Soppy Everything
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When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.

When Eight Was Eight
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The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it's the parts you don't often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.

The Point Job Entertain
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I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much.

Get Sensationalism Get Gossip
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Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

Funnily Enough When Was
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I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment.

Am Really Not Looking
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I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Have Always Had Separate
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

Doubt Backward Regret Inward
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Love Foundation Cornerstone Complete
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Flavor Sex Supersede Stuff
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Again Box Care Honey
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Country Defined Every Food
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Wisdom Life and Love Monopoly
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Better Children Every Generation
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

Memories Second Chance Humanity
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
Friendship Relationship Family
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Earth Pay Rooms
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I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Ask Because Embarrassed Every
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