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Bitcoin is the currency of resistance, if Satoshi has released bitcoin 10 years ago earlier, 9/11 would never have happened.
Bitcoin Currency Resistance Years
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We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Learned Many Money Poor
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Help tomorrow, act today. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Help Today Someone Planted
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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Shade Today Tree Plant
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Hard Wishful Nerve Reality
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened

Dragonfly Hovering Face Enlightened
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I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
Got Beatles Couple Like
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Prayer is a method practiced from ancient days, so it’s very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we’re just maintaining that routine.

Method Ancient Very Year
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It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Realize Wagon Only You
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Ago Long Time Shade
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact; can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Truth Antithesis Antagonism Society
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Agony Story Inside Greater
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Peace Agony Soul Faith
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

About Articulate Does Explaining
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Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

Able Baggy Bit Cuts
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As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

Price Never Fixed Cheque
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Our Work in Lagos was a Team Effort, I won’t appropriate personal responsibility for the Good Work

Good Team Work Effort
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Freeze Sweet Flood Tears
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Architecture Beautiful Better Chicago
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Beautiful Chicago City Eventually
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Imagination Learned Long Much
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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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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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Agony Blood Cheap Cost
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

Agents Cause Chemical Damage
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Airline Create Else Experience
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Beach Company Ended Long Time
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As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Afraid Doubt Older Out
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Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

About Available Camera Carried
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Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

Any Sane Person Would
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I'm a businesswoman. You know, I have other investments too, real estate. A long time ago, I would buy a house and flip it. But now everybody does that, so I don't do that anymore because there's no houses out there to buy.

Anymore Because Businesswoman Buy
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Cruel Describe Frankness People
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I have declared my asset long time ago, I have submitted all the necessary papers, I know the procedure.

Asset Time Papers Long
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I'm a big fan of 'The Last Dragon' - Bruce Leroy and Sho'nuff - that's one of my favorite movies growing up.

Big Big Fan Bruce Dragon
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Car Centre Display Excellence
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For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

Air Asthma Diagnosed Enough
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Beautiful Brave Dragons Lives
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If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

As Far As Being Being Famous Dead
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If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

Been Commission Crisis Current
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I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

Awe Because Benefit Done
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Dedicate Gentle Greeks Let Us
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It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days.

Any Care Come Days
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I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

About Awful Brown Bullied
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

Always Diversity Fantasy Genre
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Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

Defend Democracy Developing Free
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

Character Connect Dragon Dwarf
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