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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Intellect Same SameThing Thing
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

AllThings Difficult Excellent Rare
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Does Effect Exists Follow
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Desires Difficulty Govern Men
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Accepted Astonished BeTrue Because
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There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Desert Man Needs
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Conceived God Nothing Whatsoever
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature

AllThings Conditioned Contingent Divine
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It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Album Artwork Behind Collaborating
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Everything Like Lot Men
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Am Band Ben Big
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

About Almost Any Back
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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you

About Heard Honesty HonestyIs
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I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.
Anything Like Music Other
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My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that

Chorus Details Down Dwarf
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Put all you are into whatever you do. Anything less is a waste of your time

Waste Time Less All
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Never forget how beautiful and powerful you are and there's nothing you set your mind to that you can’t achieve

Beautiful Powerful Mind You
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I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

Against Drinking Eating Horrible
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Surprising How Much Memory
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Anything Backbone Been Difficult
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Always Dream Fight Full
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it.

The House Important Thing
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Memory Is Complicated Thing
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

I Never Think Anything
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Seems Very Safe Me
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Every Time Write New
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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

Passion Oxygen Chemistry Book
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Everything Having Helps Many
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Home Growing Up Weren't
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Used Think Religion Just
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“We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realize this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less”
Better Realize Prepared Settle
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It's Funny Thing People
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

For Me Writing Always
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

Most Every Book Bring
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I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

Adds Certain CertainThings Dyslexia
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“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism.”

Something Bible Churches Legalism
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“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”
Things Living Christt Dying
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I personally don't think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you're better at, because you try harder in it.

Always Amount Because Better
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One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.”

Church Alone Keep True
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“If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!”

God Bypass Something
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Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Forgiveness Funny Warms Heart
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

Acquaintances Anything Friends Hide
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
Kind Many Much Once
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

Anything Come Ever Me
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I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Actor Alternative Anything Anything Else
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
Go Journey Life Life Is A
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Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Attitude Church Committed Could
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If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Banks Die Eat Fall
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Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

Children Easy Food Grave
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Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

Articulate Even Fall How
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