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The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Profound truth Progress Peace All humanity
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Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Free government Most difficult Everlastingly true
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Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Freedom conceives Mind Spirit Own life
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We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Have government Builds stamina Communities
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It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

Africa Developing Future Natural
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I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.

Affluent Africa Am Bit
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Man thinks Mouthing Hard words Things
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I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.
Anything Artist Like Never
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May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?

African Could Countries Donation
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It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

End Got Guy Hit
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The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.

Army Good Life Me
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It is not in doubt, that our health workers and personnel are the true heroes making the most priceless sacrifices on the war against coronavirus. Their welfare should be given priority attention if we must record remarkable success in this COVID-19 fight.

Health workers True heroes Priceless scarifies
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To confront the Covid-19 pandemic, Osun State Government and people seek your kind support in building Isolation centers, equipping hospitals, providing food & materials as palliatives for the millions that are vulnerable in our Osun State, Nigeria. Your kind support will be appreciated

Confront Pandemic Government People
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I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.

Africa Amount Coming Continent
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Always Invisible Photograph See
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Any Blame Call Discourse
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Cannot Even Literature Must
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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

Happiness Deem World Misery hides
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

World Shipmates Sin Pays
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Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

Devil Live forever Heard Dead
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In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

Truth Mature man Hair oil Medicinally
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Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

About Beautiful Every Favour
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Man Youth upwards Conviction Easiest way
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Away Diminishes Does Done
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I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Wandered My life Traveled Fulfillment
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Friendship disappears Space Open Loneliness
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

Actor Actually Around Because
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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Any Director Filmmaker Had
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It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

After Day Demand Driver
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I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

About Around Away Canada
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It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

Act Actor Bit Give
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It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

Any Efforts Enterprise Ever
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

After Budget Camera Cheesy
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At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Any Arrested Day Had
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The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

Almost Disparate Films Influenced
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Always Because Give Giving
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I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Could Ever Felt Get
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So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

About Create Creating Detailed
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I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Animal Animals Blame Disney
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I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

Around Because Been Bus
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I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.
Able Before Destroy Hopeful
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Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

About Anyway Baby Because
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I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

About Been Before Exploration
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

About Being Case Destroyed
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People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.

Am Case Course Different
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But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Exciting Find Gives Just
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The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

Away Civilized Civilized World Forest
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Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Almost Any Certainly Choose
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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