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The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

Because Been Check Checked
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If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

Always Audience Get Got
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Businessman Businessmen Came Doctor
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Academia Father Good His
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I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

Along Biggest Came Depression
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Between Break Cause Child
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You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

Been Big How Made
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I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

Also Amount Big Country
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The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

African American Around Bad
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Development Economic Economic Growth Go
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

Also Billion India Land
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I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Festivals Few Found Having
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I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Apart Believe Come Communist
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

Child Divine Every Fundamental
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Guitar Half Instrument Life
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

Child Child Labor Growth Illiteracy
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Accountability Across Against Child
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

Ages Been Biggest Childhood
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

Action Attention Community Concrete
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I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

Call Education Exploitation Liberty
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I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

Am Behind Chair Children
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But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

God People Earth Bible
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

Because Children Come Dreams
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All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

Spiritual things Sacred dignity Humility
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We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

Belong To ourselves Purchased Price
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Biggest Biggest Challenge Challenge Crisis
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The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Great Moral powers Soul Faith
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

Common Courage Enthusiasm Entire
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Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Talk unbelief Have Faith Seed
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

Believe Believe In Yourself Create Experience
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The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

Bible Rule Doctrine
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I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.

Desired Christian Prayed Forgiveness
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

Bound Child Children Cultures
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A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.

Christian True humility Gentleness Christ
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Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

Action Gives power God Heavenly beings
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At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

About Age Children Contemporaries
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

Access Achieved Cannot Child
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

Any Cannot Children Community
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Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

Child Dignity Education Equality
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It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

Important Food Relish Mechanically
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Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.

Children Dancing Every Freedom
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Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.

Satan Success Harmonious Well
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Christian sisters should not at any time dress extravagantly, but at all times dress as neat, modest, and healthful, as their work will allow.
Christian sisters Dress extravagantly
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My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

Appeal Rich Poor brethren Advance
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A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

Person Mind Satisfied God
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Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

Happiness Comfort Passion Safety
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Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Hope Powerful Magic Things Happen
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True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.
True generosity Eaten up
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My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

Both Comedy Dad Everything
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High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Eternal things Little weight Youth
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