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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

Use Men Nobody
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Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

Understand Shallow
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When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.
True
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Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

Homage Understanding Upon Play
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The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Kingdom Heaven Treasure Hidden
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With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
God Impossible Man Things
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Crazy Lucky Home Greed
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If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Passion Love Play Music
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But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Kingdom Seek Righteousness Things
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Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Awesome Play Drink Guitar
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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan

Black Label Violence Pure
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Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

Down Life Past Move
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It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Doctor Healthy Sick Righteous
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To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs. To pray is to give Jesus permission to employ His powers in the alleviation of our distress. To pray is to let Jesus glorify His name in the midst of our needs.

Pray Power Need Give
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

Pledge World Power Humanity
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

West Evil Often Done
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I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

Crave Those Independent Small
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Believe Been Denied Until
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Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.

Stupidity Human Common Improving
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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Success Accident Love Work
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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

Interest Strong Understand Certain
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I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

Listen Work Play Hear
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Battle Heart Island Lead
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

Time Important Care Hard
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There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same

Tendency Treat Prejudice Disability
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

People Universe Sweat Work
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

Opportunity Shall Begin Mind
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

People Freedom Involve Want
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Marry Good Happy Become
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Write Lot Above Thing
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Great Settle Heart Matter
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I'm in a wheelchair. And I realized that it's not that, it's because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That's a universal thing.

Falling Love Girlfriend Dating
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You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
Attitude Challenge Yourself Good
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Feel Shade Feel Experience
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

Candle Roof Light Gospel
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Down Liberty Peace Defense
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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

Future Part Journey Sign
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Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

Sense Smile Keep Humor
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Music Love Profound Jazz
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Need Lost Wheelchair Technically
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Unique Culture Single Mold
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The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

Demon Disability Personal Sabotage
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If it weren't for the fact that all of us are slightly abnormal there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Fact Separate Point Abnormal
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

Want Way Disability Call
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Better Trust Dark Sunshine
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Over Career Unlike Life
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Often Art All Sometime
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Love Bread Sit Stone
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I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.

Magical Basically Disney World
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