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I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.


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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.


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Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.


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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The arts are a celebration of life.


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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.


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Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.


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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.


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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
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The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.


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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.


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Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.
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