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All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

Combinations Common Expense Individuals
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

Acquisitions Age Apt Becomes
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Day Every EveryDay Get
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Across Acting Actually Been
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I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.

Acoustic Chicks Did Down
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I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

Against Alienated Allies Country
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Around Because Care Directing
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War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
Idiocy Live Others Ourselves
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There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

Back Cows Like Nothing
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

Art Art World Because Bring
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Escaping Home Longest Round
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There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free.

About Australia Beach Best
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War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

About Actually Also Benefit
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I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

Apart Australia Australian Been
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The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.

Actually Afraid American Because
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At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

Achilles Bit Bone BoneMarrow
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Battles Behind Forehead Fought
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Alarm Experiment First Liberties
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Aid Flourishes Government Greater
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We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Develop Evolve Feeling Find
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All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

Become Begins Incomprehensible Language
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Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art.

Art Being Concentrate Continually
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We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

Against Criticizing Devotion Disrespectful
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I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

Hate funerals Who's dead Alive
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The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

Thing money Good Your freedom
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Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

Write down Love Good at Just try
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I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

A lawyer Journalist University
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Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Terms True natures Fascination Human
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Sometimes Places Characters Emotions
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.
Alive Dissent Elections Hang
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As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Get older More respect Empathy
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There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been

Certain point In life Stop blaming People
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It is very important to keep the diversity of development models and encourage different models to complement each other if we expect the world economy to move forward with full dynamism

Very important Diversity Development model
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We stand ready to seize the opportunity, expand our cooperation and work together to usher in a more beautiful tomorrow for the partnership.

We stand Opportunity Expand Cooperation
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Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.
Practice good Personal hygiene Wash Hands
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A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

Always Appears Bears Believe
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I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

Biology Bothered Enjoying Great
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

Feel Thing Touch Sorry
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You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

Healthy Kind Personality Relationship
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I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

About Cool Dinner Earning
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Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view.

Man Assumed Highest form Life
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Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.

Cause Deep Effect How
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The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.

Aim Art Between Continuing
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We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.

Find First Guide Her
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You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.

Animal Capacities Fluid Go
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You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

Egotism Higher Leads Learn
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You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen.

Always Bodies Brooding Brought
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The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.

Activities Architectural Elements Essential
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What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.

Accordance Becomes Being Environment
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It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

Beyond Deal Doing External
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