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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

Care Gift Music Bad
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Treat Person Society Mean
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

Good More Work Able
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal.

Goal When Life Need
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Thing Past Cloud View
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

World Able Treat Another
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My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Race Believe Begin Fact
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Trust Protect Lost People
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There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.

Happy Want Same Mean
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If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.

Active Young Want Poor
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Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”

Pursue Careful Person Fear
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Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Long Better Found Many
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Peace Guard Secure Way
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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

Expect Good Food People
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When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.

Receive Return Favor Much
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The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

Art Much Virtue Very
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Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.

Own Our Power Form
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There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

Real Arrive Life Time
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Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Life Old Wise Late
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Being Look Youth Taught
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How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?

When You From How
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What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

Kind Care Break Nation
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We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

Truth Soul Loud Have
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Success Much Overcome Life
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Way I see it, everyone plays their own role in the world, and no role is more important than the other.

Play See Role Other
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Come Half World Good
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Happy Circumstances Combination
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Education Alone Faliure World
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People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

Good Me Time Money
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Light Darkness Purpose Being
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Fierce Darkness Black Light
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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Community Progress Forget Achievement
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Crazy Truly Horrible Live
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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Change Solemly Spread Again
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Past Pioneer Future Prisoner
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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Equal Opportunity Rich Invent
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Gone Intend End Need
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From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Tone Alone Love Awaken
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Command Wealth Free Our
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer,

Certain Person Speak Excuse
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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

Believe Impress Evidence Reject
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Moment Life Whole Blankly
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

Thankful Connect Receptive Audience
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Compensate Sense Humor Imagination
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Exclude Compassion Pity Deal
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A quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examined it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime.

Evil Effect Guilty Crime
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Ignore Beauty Life Invest
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If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Miserable Shit Deserve Boring
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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Comfort Contentment End Come
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Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

Truth Illusion Destroy Hear
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