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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Aspirations Poor Poverty Real
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Visible Words Pages Blank
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Flesh Love Actual Letter
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Power Above Universe Relationship
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Almost Almost All Conscious Country
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Contains Control Describing Every
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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

Affair Audience Genuine Love
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

About Born Changed Changes
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Discover Foresee Impossible Larger
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
Advantages I Think India Knowledge
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

Advantage Competitive Competitive Advantage Country
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
Company Even Make People
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Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

Agencies Bad Corruption Dealt
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

About Asked Attributes Been
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I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

Believe Friends Language Literary
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We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Curiosity Demonstrating Educators Engage
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
How Lists Manage World
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

Age Could Early Early Age
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Age Another Away Day
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Beads Control Crow Dropping
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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Cycles Process Vision Remains
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Survival Passion Battle Child
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Voice Crowd Roar Brave
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Feels Stage Poetry Sinks
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

America Countries England Language
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Marriage Great Institution But
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open

Alliance Entered Man Marriage
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Affairs Before Breath Does
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I speak two languages, Body and English.

Speak Two Languages Body
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Forms Opinion Support Public
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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Bay Died Filthy Hard
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Author Everyone Everywhere Exists
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Advantage Great GreatAdvantage Home
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Three Playing Piano Onstage
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Any Call Exclude Mostly
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Act Clear Desire Except
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Ceases Critic Deadly Encouragement
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Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.

Because Competitive Corporation Corporations
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Age Body Quitting Soul
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

About Accepted Away Became
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Bahamas Family Lovely Quite
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Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
Area Courage Life Maybe
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Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

Age Chance Down Dropping
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Agents Because Double Fat
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Age Fear Few Long
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Heritage Fruitful Free Protect
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Human Process First Wisdom
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Filled Purpose Empty Age
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Also Corrupt Corrupts Language
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Aims Between Clear Enemy
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