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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Bright Classes Night Rise
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Forgotten Galaxy Insignificant Live
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Been Blood Financial Good
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Believe Disservice Long Reason
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Brothers Clown Columbus Fact
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Power Prescription Science Technology
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Come Help Hint Obscurity
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?

Each Function Weapons Gotta
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Beings Home Human Planet
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Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

Deal Experience Human Lot
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Clearly Confused Credulous Dangers
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

It Is What It Is Marriages More Regret
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

About Candidates CNN Come
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Could Country Cure Diseases
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Awesome Become Choose Discouraged
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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

Disguise Grapes Hidden Human
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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

Enough Help Need Never
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cherish Community Cultural Nation
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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Admit Belong Determines Honest
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Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

Church Fault Help Wealth
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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.

Act Belief Convinced Courage
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Back Best Buying Cable
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

Business Crisis Everybody Had
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

About Destroying Elephants Environment
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

After Going Hot Hours
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Alone Circus Die Love
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Against Fear Humor Thing
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Begin Fail Lie Poem
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Cat Love Moment Quiet
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Death Laugh Live Lives
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A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Strong Cat Forces Itself
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Heart Hurts Never Temper
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Between Constructed Construction Created
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Credit Dressed Spirits Good
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Beauties Changes Easy Every
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Answer Baby Born Complete
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Better Heart Human Strings
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Creature Fact Human Mystery
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Better Done Ever Far
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great Melancholy Men Poor
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Ability Any Awesome Beings
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Beliefs Events Lives Mean
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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Character Crucible Difficulty Forms
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

About Act Beings Determine
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