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There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

Things International Law Integrity
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Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

Protest Propaganda Things
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Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
Necessary Lonely Prove Right
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Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

Major Common Point Tension
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If you are carrying an elephant on your head, don't use your toe to kill an ant. Ignore small haters. Your progress is too vital to interrupt for them

Head Elephant Toe Haters
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If you tell a fool there are crocodiles in a stream, he will argue with you. The only way he‘ll believe you is if you prove it to him. The only way to prove it to him is to enter and get eaten by crocodiles. Is the fool worth it? Leave him to die

Fool Crocodiles Stream You
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Another Good Greatest Him
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
Okay Sorry Drunk Feet
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

Hard Advice People Group
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There are 2 kinds of people in the world- those who walk into a room and say

Kinds People Room World
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

Women Miscalculate Mothers
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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Actions Deeds Destiny Fate
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SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes,

Richest Poorest Loneliness Ultimate
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You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Age Live Nothing Right
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Fear less Hope more Eat less Chew more
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Kinds Lies Statistics Three
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If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.
Cannot Concentrate Happy You
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Care Don't Care Else Everyone
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Learning Much Pillars Seeing
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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Artistic Bored Creative Disappointed
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I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

Another Books Five Four
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Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Easier Find Go I Can
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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Always Boring Dark Most
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Area Boston Harvard Never
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Agents Circumstances Creature Creatures
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Alive Becomes Body Concepts
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Ages Experience Quotations Wisdom
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I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Book Fewer Here Like
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Aware Deep Effect Even
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Attempt Become Beware Fearful
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Conscious Facts Great Ignorant
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Both Career Commons Course
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I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Accountable Exercise Exist ForThePeople
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Between Different Each Feelings
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Greatest People Scholars Wisest
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Age Agree Chastity Filth
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What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

Determines Hours Leisure Our
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I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

Any Before Believe Die
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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Above Admire Embrace Key
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It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

Better Better Chance Care Chance
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Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

Any Believe Expression Faith
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If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Activities Better Busy Care
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Rarely Proud Alone
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Forbidden Kill Murderer Punished
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Law Nature Tolerance Consequence
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I don't have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and that's it. I do it myself. You know, those hours with your child are really important ones, even if it's just the two of you, being quiet in the car together.

Assistant Being BeingQuiet Car
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You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.

Cannot Change Person Them
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