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You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Big Consult Done Edge
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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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Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

Child Important Job Most
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You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Afraid Allow Break Christmas
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Back Being Communion Connection
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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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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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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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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

Duty Encouraged Getting Information
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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 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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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Always Believed Everyone Gotten
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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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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

Believe Better Brain Few
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If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov.

Love Russia To Love You
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Academics Ask Department Diversity
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I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

Afforded Been Conservative Daughter East
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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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Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Anyone Brain Developing Entertainment
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Because Considered Coordinated Effective
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Detest Dishonesty Fare Honest
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Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

Badly Because Fault Frankly
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When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

Bonding Collaborative Doing Experience
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When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

Corporate Going Government Ladder
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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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Always believe that you can create something for yourself, believe that you can make things happen.

Believe Create Happen Things
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Do something for yourself and try to create an impact. Let your passion be well expressed and every other thing will follow.

Yourself Create Impact Passion
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The secret is not for you to venture into business because you think people are making money. You need to do your research. You also need to have an understanding of finance.

Secret Venture Business Making money
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

America Bracket Decade Imagine
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I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

Came Conclusion Decided Father
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When you want to attract people to buy a product, they must have a certain level of likeness for the product.

People Product Likeness Attract
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

Person Potential Recognize Themselves
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

About Assume Believe Care
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Considerable Extent Ignorance Just
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Citizens Demand Glorify Hesitant
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Betrays He His Industry
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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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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

Adopted Attitude Children Dare
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Despair Never But Work
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Acknowledge Being Being Smart Books
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Dishonorable Few Few Things Misleading
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Begin Common Disease Either
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Roles Society Soldiers Tendency
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Arena Cause Difficult Distant
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Citizens Colors Country Dependent
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If you can mix glamor and gags, then you can catch the audience twice over.

Audience Catch Mix Over
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I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.

Between Bridge Girl Laugh
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