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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ability Be Humble Became Countries
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I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

College Finish Fit Get
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Advantage Class Community Plunder
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Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Existed Exists Most Point
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Change Constant Country Inevitable
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Beauty Elegance Magnificence Splendor
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The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
Almost Depends Education Entirely
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It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

Better Better Chance Care Chance
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Rarely Proud Alone
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A witty saying proves nothing

Witty Saying Proves
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Law Nature Tolerance Consequence
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
God Created Own.image Reciprocated
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I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

After Commercials Did First
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After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States - the greatest privilege on planet Earth.

After Arrived Become Both
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You follow the law. Every few months, you need to fly back to Europe and stamp your visa. After a few visas, I applied for a green card and got it in 2001. After the green card, I applied for citizenship. And it was a long process.

After Applied Back Card
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My style has stayed pretty consistent over the years. I always wear what I like and what is appropriate for the occasion.

Always Appropriate Consistent Like
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I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

Best BestWay Energy Gardener
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Problem Withstand Assault Thinking
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
Course Democracy Good Prescription
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I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Concentration Fun Helps Me
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Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Humans Matches Me Mere
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Been Book Break Could
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I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.

Women Solutions Practical Problems
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

Good Good Mood Having Humor
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Care Don't Care Eighty Glad
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If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Always Another Because Been
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Football coaches don't have real problems.

Coaches Football Problems Real
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Prophet Greatness Ability God
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Badly Even How Know
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Adversity Balance Friends Just
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Create Discord Disease Examine
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Adversity Direct Easily Harder
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Any Better Proper Season
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The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.

Prophets Never Taught God
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Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.

Human Body Explained Bible
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Happiness lies in conquering one’s enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Happiness Conquering Enemies Driving
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Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

People Proof Committed Words
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The solution of mankind’s most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

Solution Mankind Technical Civilization
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Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

Because Expensive Instruments Produce
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Attained Bourgeois Democracy Dream
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I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Been Between Catholics Collaboration
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

AllNations Birth Bound Decadence
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The uncomfortable is a difficult place to be, but also provides a platform to grow if you allow yourself. It's VERY hard, but do your best to see the gain and growth thru the uncomfortable.

Place Uncomfortable Grow Platform
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Adjusting to any “uncomfortable” is stressful, frustrating, and definitely a learning curve. Be mindful through challenging times that many others are fighting thru their own set of problems as well. Kindness, tolerance, and patience take extra work, but have a huge impact.

Uncomfortable Stressful Frustrating Mindful
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

BeTheFirst First Flattery More
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The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.

Money Commodity Intrinsically Best
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Absolutely Arts Freedom Liberal
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A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Wise Man Proportions Belief
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