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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

Am Anything Down Dream
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

Nas
Because Daughters Fatherhood Help
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Be Original Being Believe Common
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

Able Accomplish Away Christianity
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

Affects Concealed Conflict Discoveries
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

Allow Altered Any Been
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

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Admire Ahead Entire Favorites
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

About Afterwards Average Before
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Avoid Catholic Chemistry Forbidden
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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Began Comedy Did Feel
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Always Anyone Anything Publish
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Further Here Human Human Knowledge
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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Because Fans Get Nice
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Also Democracy Form Worship
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

About Baseball English Italian
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Adventures Ashes Be True Dust
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Able Almost Any Conclusion
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Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Future Truth Evaluate Work
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Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

Die Generation Kind Length
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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
Art Art Form Deserve Form
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The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

Add Also Brother Glory
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The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Perishable Science History Revealed
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Big Pleasures Relish Small
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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Back Dinner Dreams Far
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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Activity Children Literate Make
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When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

Been Books Cause Had
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Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine

Future Truth Evalute Accomplishment
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My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Best Countries Fantasy Fiction
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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Any Elements Every God
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

How Looks Often She
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Always Appreciated Friendship Gesture
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Major Communication Interact Century
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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Power Aloud Positively Components
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The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.

Continue Could Delighted Ever
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Spend Practical Learn Value
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Magic Enthusiasm Spell Mediocrity
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Shoulder Drop Atlas World
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Promise Crying Babies Carried
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Watch Speech Develop Peaceful
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership Potent Strategy Character
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Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Figure Generalship Figure Accomplish
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

Hunt Fish Apologize Fishing
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

About Always Learn Relationship
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A girl may never get married if she waits for the PERFECT MAN.

Girl Never Married Wait
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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

Along Always Brothers Folks
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Attention Because Commitment Energy
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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Feeling Flourish Atmosphere Individual
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