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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility
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I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

Audience Because Either Feel
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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Everything Feeling Just Know
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All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.

Anything Anything Else Band Decided
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As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
Being Closer Gets Losing
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

Come Course Fact Kind
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As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Africa Any Child College
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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Begun Half done Courage Wise
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The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

Contempt Money Virtue Wash
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Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
Lawyers Rogue Easily rooted Rich soil
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Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Impossible Almost everyone Ideas Fantasies
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Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?

Passion You crazy Live
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I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

By nature Perfectionist Trouble Mistake
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If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

Worked on Assumption True Hope
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Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Men Wise Become rich Save
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About all else, I want to be the most famous man in the world. And I don’t care by what means I become famous, as long as fame comes.

Most famous World What means
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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

World needs Come alive
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Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.
Free means Ability Deal with Own situation
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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

During time War Hatred Respectable
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Ask yourself World needs Come alive
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Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.

Keep alive Dream Heart Cannot lose
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Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Love No awareness Merit Demerit
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Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God....I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.

Prayer Communication Between God Man
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Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

Silent No limit Power Be released
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Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.
Ask Come alive Do it
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The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

Measure Man's estimate Strength Weapons
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There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?

Question Ask ourselves Going With me
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The truth is that more people have been killed by terrorists in the North West, North East and North Central zones of Nigeria over the last 5 years than in the entire south. Buhari is an even bigger curse to his own constituency than anywhere else. Nigeria deserves better.

The truth More people Killed Terrorist
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Hundreds of thousands of people are being butchered by terrorists all over the country as Buhari marks his 5 years in office whilst poverty, diesease, despair, hunger, fear & Covid 19 ravages the land. What type of man says & does nothing whilst his people are being slaughtered?

People Being butchered Terrorist Country
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The emergence of Buhari in 2015 annihilated Nigeria & plunged her into darkness, death & destruction. He came to steal, kill & destroy & for the last 5 disastrous years that is all he has done.

The emergence Annihilated Into darkness Death
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Two days ago the prophecy came to pass as the "short man", was appointed Chairman of the 'Use The Toilet Committee of Nigeria'. The Bible says "what profiteth a man to gain the world and lose his soul?" Vice President of Shitty Matters, how do you feel now?

Prophecy To pass Was appointed Chairman
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The minute a man says ANYTHING in his home belongs to him and not to both him and his wife he ceases to be a man and the marriage or union is not a serious one. The only thing that belongs to me in my home are my boxer shorts. Everything else belongs to both me and my wife.

Says Anything Home Belong
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The best thing that a man can do is to give up and let go when he knows that all is lost. Be bold and wise enough to know that you have lost the battle & save as many of your troops as you can by retreating. Learn to let go, heal, gain your strength & live to fight another day.

Best thing A man Give up Knows
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Thrown so many gifts in the trash, I forgot to remove my heart from one of the boxes.

Many gift Heart Trash Boxes
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Music has improved me as a human being and made me more receptive to business. Now I am more open to opportunities and I have more exposure.

Music Improved Human being Opportunity
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Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

Marriage Something Worked on Marital advice
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I'm with someone who makes me incredibly happy. I'm not one of those people who subscribes to the idea that marriage takes the romance out of things. I think it gets better, it deepens. I love being a wife. We have a blast.

Someone Happy Subscribes Marriage
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I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Relationship Sound bite Trivializes Adventure
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I want to die as a slave to principles, not to men.

I want Die Slave Principles
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It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

Great comfort Man Readily renounced Life
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There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

Collective Individual humor People Cheerfulness
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A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.

Society Members United Think
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

One cannot Absorbed Emptiness Increasingly attracted
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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Man Live Impervious Sadness
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

My view Any conservative Loves Country
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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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We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited

Televise trials Criminal trial Defendant committed
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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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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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