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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams’.

Myself Conclude Best Story
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Wise Banks Mountain Emperor
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See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream — and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment for states of becoming.

See Sense Mind Stream
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Build Buildings Built Could
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Accord Arm Came Day
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It's rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Another Enough Immediately Income
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Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

Added Attack Been Center
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People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

Always Am Because Dress
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

Biology Earth Force Future
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Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

About Acting By The Time Culture
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Away Children Extinction Fought
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Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to a minimum.

Animals Body Fast Found
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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Get Great History Once
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Streaming is a really big market for me. We've been doing great in the streaming market, so it's not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They're treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

Alienate Artists Been Big
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Bitter Fountain Parents Poisoned
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The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Climate Forests Importance Our
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It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Any Easier Explain Feel
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Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Climb Dragon Get Going
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Character Develops Itself Life
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If you tell a fool there are crocodiles in a stream, he will argue with you. The only way he‘ll believe you is if you prove it to him. The only way to prove it to him is to enter and get eaten by crocodiles. Is the fool worth it? Leave him to die

Fool Crocodiles Stream You
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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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Streams and mountains never stay the same.

Stream Mountain Stay Same
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

Agony Bear Biological Blood
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Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

Because Character Characters Consciousness
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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
Spring Movement Life-stream Unconscious
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

Brought Extremists Mainstream Pakistan
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Books Found Point Reason
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Cheeks Day Down Enough
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Contain Different DifferentNames Just
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The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.

Deep String Touched Moment
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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Because Being Challenges Deep
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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.

Stuffed deer Wearing Dark glasses
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Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

Education Africa Mainstream Globalization
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

Comedy Coming Hear Kind
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The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Absolutely Curiosity Information Mainstream
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With all my imperfections on my head,
Anchor Imperfections Hauled Stream
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How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

About Changed Devices Experience
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You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

Am Hear Hits IAm
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I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.
Mainstream Pretty Say Would
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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Been Comedy Drop Gate
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For democracy to flourish there must be a continuing stream of individuals of integrity and ideas with promise; there must be room for a new generation of leaders to rise and solve the generation problems.

Democracy Flourish New generation Integrity
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Ajaokuta Steel Company is meant to generate important upstream and downstream industrial and economic activities which are critical to industrialization of Nigeria.

Meant Generate important upstream Downstream Economic activities
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Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

Never Nothing Will die Stream flows
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.

Learning Rowing Advance Drop back
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

Great glasshouses Streaming Condensation Children
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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom.

Media Tend Mouth Conventional
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Do unto Downstream Upstream You
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It’s now so mainstream that many today still wonder why anyone would want equality of the sexes.

So mainstream Still wonder Want equality The sexes
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Man Stream Knows Strength
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