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What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Shame Nation Developing Beauty
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Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.

Keep Pineal-gland Operating Old
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Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

Destiny Karma Soul Done
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Beat Fear Lose Most
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I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

Danger Means Drops Program
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

Action After Always Dream
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I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Again Comet Computation Did
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I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Appreciating Born IWasBorn Incapable
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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

Educating Give Greatest Habit
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Appetite Beginning Brings Eating
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Alone Being Essence Love
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Any Becoming Ending Endless
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

Bible Continuous Crime Even
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

Crime Crime Rate Development Era
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

Countries Getting Having Here
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
Human-life Important Mountain
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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Familiar Fear Go Hard
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We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Come Continue Higher Knowledge
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Come Evil Letting Lies
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Continuous Distant Hear Other
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She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

Learned Hands Fairy-tale Valentine
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Charming Chiefly Falling Forgetting
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Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea.

Searching Heart Sorrow Words
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Conceited Digest Eating Empty
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

About Am Hate I Am
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Almost Any Been Book
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Act Any Being Concept
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Because Fiction Like More
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Awaiting Flesh I Write Images
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

Belief Christian Heart Jesus
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

About Arts Because Business
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

Always Because Circumstance Extreme
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
Kind Mysticism Writing There
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Biased First Generate Get
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Been Constantly Cultural Fiction
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

God Religion Life Power
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Any Chapter Doing Every
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

About Culture Everything Makes
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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

Changing Feminism Getting Hard
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Absence After Argument Lot
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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

Facebook Get Home I Think
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Always Book Tour Meet
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

Bit Cinema Continuum End
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Certain Characters Cutting Feet
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Boring Much Patience Takes
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

Experience Julie Miss Premiere
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

About Construction Creating Father
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Close Cold Come Could
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