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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Read books Privilege Life
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

God Write Comedy Bad actors
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We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
Come from People Believe Life
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

Good People Repay
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Question Story logic Powerful God
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Away Been Got Gun
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Also Animals Becomes Cruel
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Bad Begets Even Evil
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In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Abortion Morally Person Physically
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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Biting Divide Finger Licking
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In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Came Character Close Everything
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The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

Cabinet Culture Far Holds
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The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Among Certainly Desirable Difficult
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I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Clear Head Idea Life
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I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Accepting Am Enough Fortunate
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I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

Anyone AnyoneElse Because Characters
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Actually Believe Bit Could
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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

Also Audience Changed Early
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

In love Advantage Encounter Rivals
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

No words Wisdom Understands
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Many people Prevent Thinking
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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Accurate Been Being Believe
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Noble Simplicity Works Nature
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I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I.

Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Actually Am
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I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Always Any Backstage Band
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For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

Band Did Exist Felt
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I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Audience Because Bush Ended
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I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.

Common Denominator Fans Know
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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

Actor Being Brother Family
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I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

Big Book Comic ComicBook
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I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.

Black Cigarettes Day Every
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I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it.

Address Am Constantly Feet
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I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

After Books Movie Read
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Never try to win over those who dislike you for your convictions and beliefs. They’re not the barometer of life. The best way to treat them is to ignore them whilst firmly defending those beliefs until their anger turns to solemn resignation and their hatred turns to quiet admiration

Never try Win Dislike Conviction
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The panic and paranoia over the virus have become more deadly and infectious than the virus itself! What we need is deliberate calmness and extreme caution as we meticulously follow all the guidelines of WHO and NCDC daily. Panic always compounds every emergency situation.

Panic Paranoia Virus Deadly
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. Posthumous eulogies teach us that people who dislike you also quietly admire your sterling qualities. The dislike only stems from their frustration as a result of their inability to make you accept their convictions about things that are dear to them like religion or politics

Posthumous eulogies Dislike you Admire
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It is very intriguing that it is the same set of people, including some members of the public, who always seek to hold public officers accountable (and who are always quick to cry ‘crucify him’) that also put them under pressure to contribute financially to everything they do.

Intriguing People Members Public
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It would appear that majority of those who demand accountability from public officers do so for selfish reasons as they really would not mind if they benefit from some unethical behavior of the public officers; their watchdog role is just to ensure that they are not ‘left out’

Majority Demand Accountability Selfish
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Surround yourself with people who will lift you higher. Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.
Surround yourself People Higher Down
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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Afraid Any End Leaving
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They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

Clearer Doing Fun Get
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The Joy that comes with meeting and connecting with people who love and appreciate God’s gift upon your life is so fulfilling.

The joy Meeting Appreciate God
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It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public

Impossible Man Friends
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Such thing Honest man
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Too bad People Country Taxicabs
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Weed Plant Virtue Discovered
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I have for many years given practically the whole of my income for charitable purposes, except what is spent upon my family. Nearly all my money is invested in businesses in which I believe I can truly say the first thought of the welfare of the work people employed.

Many years Income Charitable purpose
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Don't be afraid to employ people who will force you out of your comfort zone.

Afraid Employ Force Comfort zone
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