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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Attainable Becoming Cannot Come
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Just A Sometimes Cigar
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The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Became Denied Insult Life
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Accounts Afraid Allowed Asked
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There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Companies Data Ethical Expectations
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

Attitude Believe Believe In Yourself Does
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How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Christ Dies Even Ever
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I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

Else Say Someone Will
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I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

Look Person Right Same
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Been Career Course Done
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If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.

Confident Feel I Feel Play
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Accepted Family Female Friends
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

Else Get Keep People
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Inspiration Nature
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Beauty Earth Humility Wonder
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Else Eyes Judge Long
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An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Gets Lion Optimist Scenery
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Always Days Falls Great
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Attention Burroughs Destruction Emotion
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How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?
Beat Everything How Lost
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A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.

Chemicals Nature Science
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Nature Beauty Strength Earth
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I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault - they watched the foot come towards their face.

Think Someone Gets Kicked
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No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'

No Man Wants Settle
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I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It's definitely a gift and for which I'm thankful.

Understand Being Able Appeal
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Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

Every Relationship Should Eventually
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Being Deepest Everything Help
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Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

Everything Funny Yes Positive
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Action Against Fear Had
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Along Answers Day Distant
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

About Course Grown Know
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Difficult Good More Must
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I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Contribute Defeat Enormous I Tried
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I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

Else Few Guitar Little
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For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Appreciate Been Darkest Deeply
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I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.

Catchy Here However Just
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Business Business People Engineers People
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I am who I am. I don't try to be something I'm not.

Am I Am Something Try
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Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

Arriving Chained Chains Free
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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

Advance Car Companies Customers
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There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

Between Differences Disneyland Five
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I've been talking to a lot of young people, especially here in America. I let them know that the people who they're competing with for opportunities live all over the place. They're probably not in your city, state, or country; they are hungry, and they are grinding! Some of the things that a lot of us take for granted, these people don't.

America Been City Competing
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You want be young and have fun, that's great. But while you're having fun, someone you don't see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.

Back Check End Front
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I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

About Earth Even Got
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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
Active Car Extension Natural
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Contribution Heard Little Make
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I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.

About Compromising Day Doing
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So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.

About Doing Fathers Holes
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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

Able Cannot Cures Current
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When you're doing something you're truly passionate about, there is no plan B.

About Doing Passionate Plan
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