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Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope.

Past Hope Bag Down
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If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.

Pain Sit Time Respect
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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Think Know Most Even
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The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide-open. Being broken open by the storm is your only hope. When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you. Some people never get to see what is inside them; what beauty, what strength, what truth and love. They were never broken open by the storm. So, don't run from your pain — run into your pain. Let life's storm shatter you.

Storm Face Every There
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Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.

Some People Are Wired
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A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn't alright, and talk about your feelings! Honor your truth. Honor yourself. Be real.

Truth Very Moment Instead
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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Conviction Even Great Kindness
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An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Afraid Ashamed Errors Find
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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Between Birth Death Move
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Ability Change Courage Happen
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Consumed Death Desire Great
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Accumulate Conception Education Filling
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I'm Nigerian. I'm African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It's a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.

African Apart Feed Feeling
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You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

Come Lot Nigeria Only
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Most Americans don't even understand what I'm saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration.

American Even Most Pick
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For me, every project is different, and it serves a different purpose.
Different Every And Project
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I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.

Believe Best Doing Else
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When something happens in Africa, an artist will sing about it and stuff. We have all the records; we have everything. Free Mandela records and all that.

About Africa Artist Everything
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Going onstage - that's my joy. You know like when you're in school and you're just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That's me in life.

Bell Class Going Joy
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If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.

Children Come End Everything
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I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

African Almost Ancestors Being
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

Free Virtue Must Force
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Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

Beauty Local Deity Like
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Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Happy Good May Make
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Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

Bar Guilty God Plead
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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

Lens Nature Soul Angel
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We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

Learn Better Worth Wealth
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

Trait Correct Them Exhibit
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On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

Globe Between Gross Force
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If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.

Start Worry Right Along
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Think and wonder, wonder and think.
Think Wonder And
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You oughta be thankful a whole heaping lot for the people and places you’re lucky you’re not.

Whole People Lucky Lot
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People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

People Weird Find Someone
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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Mind Who Matter Those
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If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.
Fun Good Thing Never
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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Simple Answer Are Question
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From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Funny Thing Here There
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Step with care and great tact, and remember that life’s a great balancing act.

Step Tact Act Great
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You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.

Own Know One Decide
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I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

Wet Sun Lot Good
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They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Fast Past Progress Live
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Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.

Learn Turn Live Burn
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When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.

Look Pull Faith Ahead
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Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Love Time Same Hate
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Wish you would learn to love people and use things, and not the other way around.

Wish Learn Love Around
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When all is said and done, more is always said than done.
Done More Always Than
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We live in a generation of not being in love and not being together.

Live Being Love Together
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It’s never too late to realize what you want in your life and it’s never wrong to fight for it.

Late Fight Wrong Never
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Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Over Key After Patience
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