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Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Animal Clean Earth Eating
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Adventurous Armed Beasts Came
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

California Continent Part Wild
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One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Best Broad Climb Close
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Allowing Another Beautiful Building
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A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

Also Around Feelings Her
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
Distracting Find I Write Listen
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Afghanistan Even Even Now Form
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If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

Assistants Careful Coach Extremely
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Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Ability Behave How Patience
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I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

Being Friendly With Someone
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The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

The Moment Doctor Told
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Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

Funnily Enough When Was
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I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.

Definitely Love More Acting
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

Aware Been Continent Dedicated
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Decency Exhausting Maintain Opposite
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Rome Create Empire Meeting
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Atmosphere Attended Been Celebrating
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Important Answer Formal
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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

About Always Difficult Easy
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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Difficulty Directly First How
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Books Me Success Surprise
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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

About Between Child Economic
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

About Largely Me Rewriting
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You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

Bar Candy Chocolate Eating
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Because Consider I See Me
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A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Advantage Continue Did Feel
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There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

Am Anyone Believe Cannot
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I'm getting into interior design.

Design Getting Interior
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I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.

Because Control Everything Experience
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A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.
Committing Lot Me Musical
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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

Acting Avoid Each Letting
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I've learned through my own relationship with God that He's not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

Best Expecting Faith God
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Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

Confidence Exact Gold Impact
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

Age Base Elegant Find
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It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.

Accomplish Actually Always Because
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I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.

Famous Hot Joke Fashion
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Forgetting Kind Knowing Not Knowing
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Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Act Always Life Matter
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

Passion Writing Anymore Much
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

Artist Emotions Pictures Every
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Desire Even Getting Lose
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Money Stopped Were Writing
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
Come Flow Great Believer
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Ages Art Criticism Distinguishes
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Another Attempt Being Love
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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Coincidence God Attention
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