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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Goes Instrument Learning Life
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Dignity Excellence Humanity Importance
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Awaiting Burial Concerned Conditions
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Death Discouraging Humiliating Limit
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Am Call Features Human
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

After Book Bookstore Content
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Believe Defeated Evil Final
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America Australia Because Captain
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Dew Flash Human Life
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Argument Irony Neither Sarcasm
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Believe Fully Humans Important
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Become Book Even Homer
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

Being Deserves Each Even
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Accurately Becomes Destructive However
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Bona Doing Falls Ground
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Actor Business Crazy Dead
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This is a mean world, and everyone likes to jump in and kick people when they're down.
Down Everyone Jump Kick
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Dana White's awesome. He's an emotional guy, but I feel like he's a good guy. He's an emotional guy. He's like Donald Trump. He says whatever the hell he wants.

Awesome Donald Donald Trump Emotional
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European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.

About Authors Books Casting
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Always Dysfunction End Evils
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Anger Boredom Come Conditions
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

Cardio Classes Kickboxing Mum
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Am Aware Better Better Person
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It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.

Beautiful Beautiful Thing Desire Fellow
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

About Before Crime Current
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

Allowed Because Could Hostess
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

About Awhile Event Happen
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Distant Dying Love Love Is
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Former Human Infinite Stupidity
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I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.

Energy Felt Artist Album
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Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that's turning into a 'they.' My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the 'they' is out of you.

Invite Jump Key Bar
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I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

Also Because Blonde Dumb
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People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Mine Obvious People Assume
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There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

There Are Always Going
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You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.
Argument Be Happy Couple Every
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

Being Being Happy Course Happy
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I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

Argument Boy Girl Going
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As always, whenever I'm contacted by the White House, I'm just humbled.

Always House Humbled Just
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I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can.

Again Album Allow Almost
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With the music that I've put out, I realized that putting pressure on an album isn't always the right thing to do for yourself.

Album Always Music Out
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If you don't put your crew on your album, you're a snake.
Album Crew Put Snake
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Blessings Death Greatest Human
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Because Everywhere Extension Fear
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

About Becomes Events Extraordinary
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Being Central Century Condition
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Animal Birds Breeds Commonly
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