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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

Achieve Always Atmosphere Belongs
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

Am Being Beings Conceive
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Casting Certain Characters Doubts
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

About Book Breaking Classical
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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

About Maybe Started Writing
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Begin Black Every Flag
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Amendment Amendment Rights Book Comic
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Be Happy Fear Happy Haunting
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Adam Apple Eating Got
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Agents Employed Ever Far
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Articles By The Time Candidates Day
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I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
About Fiction More Much
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Bad Bad Manners Good Good Manners
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Bad,Bad Manners,Good,Good Manners,Manners,Means,Other,People,Putting,Simply,Sometimes,Up

Best Doing Preparation Today
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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Back Dinner Dreams Far
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The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Feeling Constantly Growing Hear
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Getting Giving Happiest Happiest People
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Get Getting Happiness Liking
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When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

Anyone Important Interesting Nothing
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People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

People Words Battle Destiny
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Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Again Creating Every Farming
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If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Corporation Honesty Creating Conditions
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

Road Death Blood Alternative
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We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
Words Sentimental Few Millions
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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Power Aloud Positively Components
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Battle Happiness Life Retreat
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The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.

Continue Could Delighted Ever
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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Interesting Be Enthusiastic Talk
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

Hunt Fish Apologize Fishing
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The Human spirit and faith is not usually being challenged by the predictable and the routine but by the overwhelming and the uncertain.

Human spirit Faith Uncertain Routine
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Don't let multiple meetings make you miss multiple blessings. Prioritise prayer time.

Meetings Multiple Blessings Prayer
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I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

Love Clutching Appreciate Judging
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Terrorism Easy Participating
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This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

Step Exploit System People
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I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.

Acting Blessed Career Good
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I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.

Planet Over Reality Latin
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Always Attempting Business Disprove
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It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.

Protest Large Lies Very
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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Talked Live Compulsion Have
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Decide First FirstStep Getting
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I'm an actor. I love acting and being able to use my love, my passion, to also contribute to making this a better society, a better democracy, and a better country.

Country Better Society Passion
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Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.

Stop Least Desire Strong
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Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.

People Families Society Training
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Parent Linger Past
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Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

Word Procrastination Language
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Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

Easy Hard Impossible
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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Decide First FirstStep Getting
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