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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Crowded Defeat Ourselves Street
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

African Always Ant Begins
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But everything of value about me is in my books.

About Books Everything Me
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Whoever has no regards for your time, has no value for you. You can get back money, material things but can't get back time. invest your time wisely.

Wisely Time Invest Money
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Amount Details Documentation Fascinating
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

Calculated Choose Doing End
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

Also Anyone Anyone Else Botox
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I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

An Art Art World Coming
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Children Machines Nothing Producing
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We may be age-mates, class-mates, and room-mates, but we are definitely not Grace-Mates.

Grace Room Class Age
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Fleeting Forever Glory Obscurity
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Anything Before Beside Connection
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Agreed Upon Fable History
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Acquire Else Everyone Everyone Else
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Daily Death Defeated Die
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

According Children Early Geniuses
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Foresight Have May Undoubtedly
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Friendship Life Neither New
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Correction Does Encouragement More
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Cowardly Disagree Fear Know
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Begun Birth Death Fire
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Men Mortal Themselves Think
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Clouds Down Drop Estates
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Poor Dream Feet Softly
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

Breakfast Burner Cook Eggs
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Die Country War Object
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If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

Results Amazed How People
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

Heart I See Life More
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

Acting Always Been Did
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

Also Before Biggest Came
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

Being Being Famous Famous Glamorous
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My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

Always Belief Family Find
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I prayed every night that God would keep my family safe. But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

As Far As Every Every Night Everyone
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Happiness Virtue Pleasure Growth
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

About Cannot Fence Forever
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Follow Fought Gains Leads
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specifi

Become Convinced Exist Greatest
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Another Blind Needs Person
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Advance Backwards Civilization Flow
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Am Chained England English
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Autobiography Distort Facts Fiction
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Achievement Desire Everything Hope
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment

About Charming Friends Had
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

Always Craft Equipped Felt
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Anyone Colonial Complex Knows
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Most Pathetic Person Sight
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Purpose
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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You may be broke, but that should not mean that you should also be broken.

You Broken Mean Broke
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Nigerians are naturally aggressive towards their business, but tend to be docile towards their government. However, hunger is gradually eroding their docility.

Nigerian Business Aggressive Docile
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