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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Beyond Control Exchange Excuse
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We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

Cannot Choose Coming Contribute
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.

Contrary Control Create Does
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Ability Become Control Counterproductive
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What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

Got Law Lawyers Learn
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

Being Concentrate Disagree Forget
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Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'

Brain Contains Depths Ever
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I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Against Decided Discovered First
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

Anatomy Bomb Constantly Cut
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

Believe Come Defining Derive
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We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

Attitude Common Country Develop
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

What Interest Always Modernism
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The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

Active Choose Love Distinguish
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The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

True Hypocrite Knows He
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Art Effort Eternal Existence
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

Being Blocks Call Hypocrisy
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
Happens Heart Simply What
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In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.

Analysis Carry Complete Composed
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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

About Dealing God Knows
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Grief Grieve Loss Only
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What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

About Alive Become Building
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Advances Age Because Deranged
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Anyone Aware Become Despair
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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

Cost Cut Doctor Empower
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If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Allow Coordinate Each Get
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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Been Decades Good Has-Been
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Down Ease Expect Forbid
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The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Confuses Even Feeling He
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The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

America Circumstances Come Essence
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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.
Affect Cannot Did Know
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I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Actually Anybody Else Frequently
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In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

Operating Own Personal Plays
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It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

System Taking Themselves Understand
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What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls.

Always Both Boy Certain
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I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
Sense Speak Truth Continue
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

Life Mean My Life Read
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

About I Write People Want
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

Being Bright Cliff Considered
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Basic Best Decide Most
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What we've discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor.

American Discovered Humor Love
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A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?

Anything Delusion Fails Funny
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Believes Difficult Necessarily True
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

Agents Cause Chemical Damage
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I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.

Care Could Less Prove
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

Black Color Cowboys Expand
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I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.

Clear Focused Get Going
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Advice Arm Children General
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

Applause Glee Hear Most
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

Different Earth Feeling Nobody
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