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The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Away Cut Forth God
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

Artist Give Inspire Now
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Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Coped Others Past Prepare
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Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Command Those Always Ask
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
Safe Untrue Worlds Fairyland
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

After Dragons Ending Even
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Friend Mine Shorthand Talk
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Affairs Anger Meddle Quick
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Follow Fought Gains Leads
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Both Counsel Elves Go
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Education Effort Get Struggle
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Above Cheer Food Gold
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Know Paragraph Piece Read
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Battle Except Get His
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

About He I Wish Know
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Became Behold Editor Feminine
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Deserve Half Know Less
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Burning Burning Desire Desire Knowledge
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Act Beyond Commit Conduct
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Cannot Deal Death Deserve
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Accomplishment Breaks Capable Energy
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

About Going Just Much
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Am Chained England English
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Any Before Defeat Easiest
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

See Terrible Thing Vision
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Achievement Born Great Great Achievement
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Best Calls Come Enjoyment
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Achieve Beliefs Feelings Harmony
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Drawn Enough Eye Hold
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I've never abandoned the novel.
Abandoned Never Novel
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

About Attractive Begin Being
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

African Kicked Need Only
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Adversity Being Challenging Courage
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Another Anyone Difficult Energy
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Away Balance Give How
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

Being England People Proud
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A friend who cares, is more valuable than a friend who is rich and powerful.
Cares Friend Valuable Rich
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You don't have to die to go to hell. You can be righteous and live in hell on Earth.

Die Hell Righteous Earth
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

Big Business Getting Go
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Been Chosen Heart Must
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Child Feel Home House
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

Always Come Had Home
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Deep Does Frost Glitter
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Been Business Foolish Grandeur
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Any Anything Even Fit
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