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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

Abundance Been Depths Flame
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

Abreast Bit Born Enables
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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
Branches Currents Dealing Electrical
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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Great deal Importance Papers
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Mathematician Painter Poet Permanent
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

The poet Love Words Knot
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Writing Cheer me Soothe Spirit
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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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Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.
Quiet place Heart Rainbow Possibility
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I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

Taken So many Turns Careless
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The living wander away, we don’t hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.

The living Hear Dead
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

A man Lives life Meets Licks it
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The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

Human race Remarkable creature Potential Hope
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Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Normal television Limit Science fiction
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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Because Certain Characters Directly
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Concepts Constitute Corresponding Elements
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Although Arises Begins Does
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Blind Concepts Content Empty
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Above Awe Law Me
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Another Guidance Immaturity Incapacity
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Dark Lighthouse Many Metaphysics
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We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Allow Bring Connections Delight
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I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Abortion Associate Good Good Life
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Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Academic Becoming Cursed Discovered
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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Also Any Because Critical
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Background Classic Even Holds
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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Because Excellent Find Followed
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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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Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Cannot Day Every Every Day
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Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

Ally Borders Country He
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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

About Because Book Compare
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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

After Bored Boring Drawer
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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 love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

Actor Company Directors Each
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Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

Always Away Bad BadGuys
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I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

School Four years Communications
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As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realize that with an interest like that people are going to think there's something wrong with you.

Kid Raise snake Social life Interest
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Always Back Because Character
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

Mother Confidence Anything Do
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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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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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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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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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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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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

About Bite Children Denying
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At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

About Admit Also Always
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Most people Disbelief Founded Blind belief
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