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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Actually Attention Been Has-Been
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Around Genuine Hanging Known
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And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Either Great Guitar Had
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Always Close Closed Down
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

Heart Man Men Most
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The sun Moon Stars Disappeared
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Art Living Fine mingling Letting go
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Pain Death Part of Life
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Call morals Simply blind Word Command
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Sex lies Life Never Learn
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What is important is the victory of the people, not of a candidate. We must unite for the good of Madagascar’s people, and we are going to succeed.

Victory Candidate Madagascar Succeed
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I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Accept I cannot Malagasy Civil war
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In order to tackle malnutrition, it is essential to ensure people’s access to adequate food, appropriate health services, clean water and sanitation.

Malnutrition Adequate food Health Clean water
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War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

War Jungle Bush-clearing Thicker
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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Am Around Bubbles Fresh
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Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Aims Aspire Body Ever
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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

According Better Easier Impression
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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Always Blend Burn Clear
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We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Between Got Hereafter In-Between
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Men Know themselves Longer fools Wisdom
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Promise land Always lies Wilderness
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Thinking Lower grades Comparable Paper money
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Romantic Embrace Music Prayer
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There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

Dangerous Intoxicating Victory Nothing
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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

Any Before Discard Good
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

Became Deeply First Rhythm
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Admired Also Could He
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Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

Again Animate Discouraged Elaborate
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Applied Back Body End
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Always Man Objective Reach
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I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

Ancestors Built Decent Deep
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I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.

Appreciate Beatles Could Devotion
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As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

About Am Approach End
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Never Country Every moment Virtuous
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The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Abstract Activity Birth Course
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Art Dancing Stands Express themselves
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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Men Women Understand Nature
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

The family Important Human beings
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Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

Calculus Differential Discovery Even
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Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Also Applied Everyone Feelings
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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Fresh stage Education Little Preparation
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A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

Because Dark Deep How
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Becoming clear Old platitudes Maintained Moral
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Birth control Effect Social life
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I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

Blessed Day Every Every Day
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I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

Always Because Best Better
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Miami has embraced me and I love them for that.

Embraced I Love Love Me
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I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.

Day Die Gonna Just
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