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I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in anymore.

Anymore Believe Aspects Honor
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Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

Honor People Able Revise
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Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.

Cutting Down Forest Loss
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Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.

Abuse Africa Community Global
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Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.

Hatred Lies Borders Closed
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

African Black Inside Like
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We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.

America China Europe Friends
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

Believe Better Feel God
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Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

About Anything Boyfriend Care
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Ambitious Gross Talented Were
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Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Behind Difficult Even Experience
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Real Voyage Discovery Consist
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Happiness Beneficial Grief Develops
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Dreaming Dangerous Dream-less
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Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

Love Fulfilled Vain Frustrated
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...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..

Memory Particular Image Regret
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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine

Instead Imagination Suppose Worthless
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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Lying Ourselves Cease Notice
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

Afraid Bomb Brave Build
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Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.

Mystery Traveling New Places
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Sometimes Future Latent Supposedly
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Believe Reality Visible Artificial
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I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.

Friends Companies Wounded Vanquished
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People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.

Poverty Bad Good People
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
Flower Vase Smiles Longer
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Sometimes Laugh Ear Impossible
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Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love

Despite Troubles World Love
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You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

Wonder Hours Flowers Life
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Dignity Art Lies Duty
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Physician Treat Disease Patient
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There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.”

Difference Between Pain Humans
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Metaphysics Confused Matters Religion
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She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

Love You Metaphors Poet
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Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be

Have Possessed You Me
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Playground Picked Guy Best-players
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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Championship Team Publicity Champion
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I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

I Grew-up Poor Dream
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I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

Hire People Motivate Working
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

People Smiling Court Think
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For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

Long Time Work Magic
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

Great Idea Research Demand
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

Nations Reforms Issues Interfere
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

Manhood Care Family Able
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I speak and speak, but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Speak Listener Retains Words
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It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Fear Dependent Young Child
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I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

Dignity Educated Equality Fought
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In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

Diamond Gift Precious Education
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

Education Just Problems Many
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Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.

Extra Given Great Reach
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The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

Aims Ambition Born Change
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