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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Abundant Africa Cheap Favor
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

Attribute Young Biological Birth
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Benefit Black Elite Empowerment
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God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Become Children God Patient
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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Wish Shut Could
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Being Between Call Church
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

Anymore Wish Kind Miss
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Ape Autumn Beauty Dying
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Democracy Everybody Lord Me
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Afraid Also Artist Certainly
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People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Comfortable Different Evolved Gotten
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

American Among Artist Be Different
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Get Go Like Somewhere
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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Afraid Another Appear Because
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Always Dealt Difficulties Every
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Always Career Ever Feel
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Does Done Due Feel
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Birth Death Different Had
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
Art Improves Material Never
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Being Far Interpret Only
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Actual Business Emotions Express
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Faith Hope Love Thing
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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

Able Being Could Frustration
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

Actually Clothes Feel Get
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

About Actually Any Being
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This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Amaze Bets Big Cycle
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Being Come Create Done
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I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Able Communicate Day Even
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People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

Always Am Because Dress
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I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

Always Business Circles Move
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Athenian Citizen Greek World
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No man is hurt but by himself.
Himself Hurt Man
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Face House Man Place
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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Gods Know Ought Whether
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Polluted Sun Privies Too
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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Remove Side Sunshine Take
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Celebrate Failure Heed Important
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Accept Always Change Coal
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I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

About Amazing Amazing Thing Consistent
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
Became Chemistry I Think Miracles
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

Baptist Christ Church Committed
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Day Fanatical Less Little
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You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Area Capitalism Causes Diseases
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I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Beautiful Full Hawaii Places
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Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Ahead Bold Often Real
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The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Appreciated Aware Became Being
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

Couldn't Have Happened Anywhere
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

We May Achieve Climate
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