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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Crowded Defeat Ourselves Street
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Deserved Destiny Fame Inevitable
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Arrow Eagle Feather Hand
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Clears Complaint Joy Love
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I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.

Leader Little Offer Breakdown
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Be consistent and never give up in life ... Even tissue paper, hand sanitizer and face mask no believe say them go blow like this life na turn by turn.

Consistent Never Life Tissue paper
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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Any Crimes Equally Government
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I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Believe Between IBelieve Man
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Am stressing on all my haters. Cos am standing on my job and am counting all my blessings

Stressing Haters Job Blessing
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We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

Beyond Build Carry Forward
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Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Across America American Bringing
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The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Allies Danger Determined Live
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The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
All-Powerful Cell Found Hole
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The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

America Assassins Fail Freedom
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For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

America Credible Diplomacy Doubt
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After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

After Chaos Enemies Enough
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I don't spend time analysing and nitpicking. I just say 'Thank you Lord. Then I watch the lord do more, again and again.

Spend Time Thank you Lord
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For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

Better Freedom Hussein Love
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Aim Ambition America Basic
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If you are filthy and need a bath, pray from now till tomorrow, if you no baff, you go still dey smell.

Filthy Bath Pray Tomorrow
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America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Ahead America Better BetterLife
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

Certain CertainWay Chance Explore
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

African Always Ant Begins
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

Become Came Center Come
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
Ask Give Given Lecture
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

Actual Am Any AnyGivenMoment
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Pastors in Nigeria are quiet at the killings of northern Christians because they are afraid of arrest and media been set up against them. Shame.

Shame Set Afraid Quiet
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Amount Details Documentation Fascinating
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.

About Australia Bali Decided
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

Calculated Choose Doing End
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I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

About Bad Carries Crack
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There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.

Celebrity Days Era Focus
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I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

An Art Art World Coming
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Any Been Before Book
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Always Conquered Forces Long
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I have been able to imbibe this nature, to walk with God, you must spend more time with him and less time with people, you can never walk in the power of God having too many friends.

Friends God Power Walk
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

About Darkness Existed Kind
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Also Flatter He How
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Ability Around Consciousness Contains
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Fear Interest Men Moved
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We may be age-mates, class-mates, and room-mates, but we are definitely not Grace-Mates.

Grace Room Class Age
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.

England A Shopkeepers Nation
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Bayonets Feared Four Hostile
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Anything Before Beside Connection
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

About Behind Came Changed
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Abandon Avoided Better Dangers
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

Almost AlmostNothing Beyond Child
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Care Come End Just
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Bit Colored Fight Hard
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Daily Death Defeated Die
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