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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Consciousness Delight Focused Gift
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Dreams False Poets Tales
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

About Am Any Backed
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Accept Best Content Craves
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

Based Common Emotions Fundamental
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

Authors Become Competitor Concerning
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

Nas
About Anybody Dating Music
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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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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

Decrease Happiness Human Human Happiness
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Dramatic Element Great Great Part
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

Cosmic Escape Fixed Hence
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

Nas
About American Life Make
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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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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Comparison Disease Fatal First
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Amendment Countries Current First
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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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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Backwards Discipline Forward Going
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Problems Survival Nuclear Catastrophe
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We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
Words Sentimental Few Millions
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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Interesting Be Enthusiastic Talk
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Stamp Indelibly Mind Mental
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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Physical Mental Resources Focused
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I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

Environmentalist Believe Mankind Nature
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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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It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

Family Microcosm World Understand
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Propaganda Democracy Bludgeon Totalitarian
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It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.

Donald Hear Talking Kills
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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Talked Live Compulsion Have
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A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

Business Conversation Fewer
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Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

Listening Fellow Talk
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

Around Know Loss People
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I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Because Change People Power
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He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
Among Crystal He Morality
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The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Because Camera Digital Great
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
About Ambitious Any IWish
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

BarbraStreisand Biggest Driving Dying
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

About Like Myself Talking
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Dig Done Hole Just
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Because Degradation Environmental Families
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Drug Alcohol Fundamental Society
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Capitalism Success Failure
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If you are carrying an elephant on your head, don't use your toe to kill an ant. Ignore small haters. Your progress is too vital to interrupt for them

Head Elephant Toe Haters
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I see myself as a new artist again who is hustling. That's my mentality, I don’t walk into a room expecting anyone to know who I am. I'm just here to get a seat at the table

Artist Hustling Mentality Know
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The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Church Sinners Museum Hospital
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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Talk Listened You Less you talk
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Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

Blind date Girl Jeans Talk
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Fear less Hope more Eat less Chew more
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It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Also Be Strong Course Day
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