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It is, I think, enough for me to say that life itself is, from the cradle to the grave, a series of unbroken risks. I make no boast about this, but those who know me intimately will testify to the fact that I have never, at any time, shrunk from taking my full share of the risks which life, with its unending opportunities and vicissitudes, offers.

Enough Life Series Unbroken
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There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

Adversity Always Bumps Done
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I never want any problems with anybody in this world.
Any Anybody Never Problems
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Perhaps Absence Soul Breathe
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Advance Foolishly Great Individuality
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Moment Ennobles Place Great
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The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
Cream Life Chance Unexpected
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It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

Auditorium Blind Classroom Date
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

Character Boy Develop Play
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

Work Heroe Business Inspire
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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Motivated Expressed Vitalism Refute
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Sometimes God allows you to taste the bitterness of this world so that you could fully appreciate the sweetness of faith.

God Taste Bitter World
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
DNA Proof God Exxstence
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This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Absolutely Airlines Beyond Bizarre
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Arrogance Example Nuclear Option
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The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

Act After Come Continue
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This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

Critics Feelings Hurt Know
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

God Exercise Intellect Side
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Certain Man Revenge Green
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Adolescent Being Danger Humanity
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Act Acting Battle Circumstances
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Always Imitation Opponents Poor
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

Being Defend Dignity Europe
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Given Greatest Make Man
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I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Buying Clothes Escalator Girl
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Actively Best Lunatics Mad
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Caught Commencement Easy How
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

Devil Foundation Work Apple
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The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

Begins Art Frame Humble
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Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

Love Enriched Earth Leave
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Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.

Will Quietly Peacefully Joyously
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God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

God Qualified Sinner Work
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Again Beings Come Creator
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Base Calling Crumble Face
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Astonishing Become Despite Easily
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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Agents Concern Criminal Criminal Justice
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Around Because Bread Came
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Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

Patient Weaknesses Body Given
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.

Greatest Security World Grace
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Any Appearance Cannot Does
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Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.

Maxim Sight God More
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Find His Imperfections Man
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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Beauty Mystery World Emerges
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The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

Actor Also Always Career
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I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Man Who Truthful Pride
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I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.

Don't Want Life Explainable
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When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.

Become Concerned Our About
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...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.

Every Person Star Has
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