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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Authors Did Everybody Famous
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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Action Alive Author Before
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Art Ashamed Author Belief
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Authors Because Cats Creatures
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What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred

Courage Think Quality Man
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.

Adult Authority Become Beings
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As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

Cheese David Fellow Hamburger
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Experience Thorn Warning Whole
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Dealing Great Great Things Himself
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For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

Authority Doctor Plumber Never questioned
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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Conscious ignorance Prelude Real advance Science
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Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Intolerance Ambiguity Mark Authoritarian personality
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Remember that you are in charge! Use the authority that you have

In charge Authority Remember You
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To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they should not expect to be treated with kid gloves.

Parent Authoritarian Succeed Work hard
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To stop community clashes, it's about deal making. Both sides want something. Someone has to step in, and give both sides what they want. An authority figure has to make the 'warlords' feel like they matter and they are heard.

Stop Community clashes Deal making Both sides
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Books Ourselves Strangely enough Great pleasure
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We will ensure that all rape cases are thoroughly investigated, and the perpetrators of this hideous crimes are prosecuted.

Will ensure Rape cases Investigated Perpetrators
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment not authority.

The ultimate Court Appeal Observation
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I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it.

The author Salvation Responsible The way
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Overcoming authoritarianism starts with recognizing it. The attitude that those in authority are to be respected to the point of not daring to question their behavior, even when it involves wrong-doing, needs to be changed.

Overcoming authoritarianism Recognizing it The attitude Authority
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
One kind Good book Leave you Asking
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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent and unbudgeable as those in food.

Best efforts Critics Hope Authors
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Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

Greater pleasure Come across An author One enjoy
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The stadiums are huge complexes with many outdoor and indoor areas. Medical personnel and authorities will determine the appropriate areas of usage if and when necessary.
The stadiums Huge complexes Many outdoor Indoor areas
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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

People Interested Books Authors
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Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

Woman Like man So honest Thoroughly square
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What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

Organized violence Laws orders Obey Compel you
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.

History A novel People The author
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Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Phrase Books Universal Eternal
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Author Reader Depths Thoughts
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Public institutions represent our commonwealth and those in positions of authority in them do so in trust. Hence it must be treated as such.

Public institutions Represent Our commonwealth In positions
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further urge the authorities in the United States of America to intensify their efforts to ensure the total elimination of all forms of discrimination based on race or ethnic origin.

The authorities To intensify Efforts Ensure
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Authority Wisdom Like Edge
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Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere.

Who believe That authority Challenge Threaten it
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what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

What Hear Voice Fury
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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

People know Going on The easier Wield power
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How do we manifest the life of God when we are “keeping safe” with everyone else from a virus we have received the authority to heal.

Manifest The life God Keeping safe
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they will create for themselves a legal system that authorizes LOOTING.

When plunder A way Life A group
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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Authority Work Prestige Distance
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Old age An honored Great authority More value
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The authority Who teach An obstacle To learn
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The African Union must condemn these outrageous attempts by African youth to stage mock coups. These practice exercises pose a future threat to Africa's long-standing authoritarian regimes.

Must condemn Outrageous attempts Youth Mock coups
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Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Some books Be tasted Some devoured Digested thoroughly
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Authorities have failed black footballers, who are racially abused. It's why they will have to take matters into their own hands.

Authorities Have failed Black footballers Racially abused
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No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Mind Well-organized Deficient Humor
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Authoritarian regimes are only as strong as the people’s acquiescence.

Authoritarian regimes As strong People acquiescence
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Exposing corruption in an authoritarian environment is not a easy job. The corrupt will go after those who expose corruption, leaving their corrupt friends.

Exposing corruption Authoritarian environment Easy job The corrupt
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Let us love this distance, which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated.

Love Distance Friendship Seperated
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Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Freedom Not possible Without authority Into chaos
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