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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

Life Understand Human pray
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I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension
I believe Question Existence God
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The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

Metaphor evil Represent Dark Human nature
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion

Hear theists Atheists Know God Exist
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Sometimes when someone is asking you a question you can become Socratic, and ask them a question, and have them answer their own question for them.

Someone Asking you Question Socratic
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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

Atheism God existed Have Evil
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Faith is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

Faith Wishful thinking No evidence Anything
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And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

Believe Truth Mighty Shines
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I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.

Don't like Mansions Depress me Rich husband
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My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Only master Objectivity Others
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All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

All things People Life Own merits
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I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.

Very obvious Incompetence Lack Common sense
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The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best
The media Your life Money Automatically
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Have seen In life Virtually Intelligence
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Doubt impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Doubt impels Truth Knowledge Faith
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I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

Lost My faith God My daughter
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

Appreciate Positive experience Religion New family
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

People relate Authentically Humanly God
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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Using power Compulsion World Cautious
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And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

Devil Against God Eternity No decision
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To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Look away World Reach God
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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Close My door Surrender myself Book
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Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.

Have something Stands In relation
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For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

God Want Believe in Defended
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The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now—or, as Buber puts it, in the present.

Possible relationship God Address
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What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.

Manifold Frightening Prefer How many
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I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.

Mirror Exchange starts You see Done something
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I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about.

Hungry For knowledge Learn Brighter
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As kids we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

As kids Complain Being poor How rich
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That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It’s worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

This generation Least racist Time Club
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You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool?

You make Some money Show face Inspire people
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I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

Collect art I drink wine Exposed
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.

Reasons Inequality Country Everyone
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I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.

Myself Certain way People Stay true
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My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.

My brands Extension Emotional attachment
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My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

Related to Person Clothes Extension
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Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?

Racism Taught Home Teenager
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Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

Racial relations Think Proper credit
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When you’re growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you’ve let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Growing up Your superhero In love
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

First album Need pen My memory
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You can want success all you want. But to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip, you can’t sleep, one eye open, for real, and forever.
Want success Slip Sleep Forever
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Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Identity Prison Never escape Redeem
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Those who are successful overcome their fears and take action. Those who aren’t submit to their fears and live with regrets.

Successful Take action Fear Live
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I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.

I believe Excellence Perform High level
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I’m like a dog, I never speak, but I understand.
Like Dog Never speak Understand
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I believe everybody in the world is born with genius-level talent. Apply yourself to whatever you’re genius at and you can do anything in the world.

Everybody World Genius Level talent
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Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great.

Belief Oneself You are Foundation
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I want to make a success of where I am and one of the ways of making a success of where I am is to keep my mouth shut.

Success Keep Mouth Shut
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Today I dream a big dream, way bigger than me, that I will make a great impact in the forward development of my country Nigeria I have just seen first hand, what a dream with commitment…

I dream Great impact Forward development Country
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The goal is to be wealthy not through money alone, but value, by empowering as many people as possible to become successful, that way, success and wealth are guaranteed…

The goal Wealthy Money alone Value
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