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If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.

We trust Reality God Word
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A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

Servant God Master Rich
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God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

God Pleased continually Mode Dealing
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I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

Desire Many things Heart filled Love
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If we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.

Hold fast Confidence Faith Strengthened
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Tear out Single page Life Book
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Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile
Butterflies Flowers Sunny day Nature
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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

My body Hands Actions Strongest
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The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

World Understand me Greatly matter
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I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty

Virtues Nobles qualities I love Exclusive
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The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Most honest Men Best Powerful
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A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

Bikini Country Die Fight
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Gentle people may be stubborn but it usually helps us to achieve certain things.

Gentle people Stubborn Achieve
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The point is we are borrowing, but we are borrowing sensibly. Seriously, no country develops with its own resources alone especially countries in Africa

Borrowing Sensibly Country Develop
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Nobody has your interest at heart but you.

Nobody Interest Heart
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With the kinds of progress we’re seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

Progress Africa Kinds Gets better
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Emerged Eventually Kept Me
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Anyone Bald Confident Diamond
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My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough you will find some faults in me, so keep an open mind.

Children Perfect father Old enough Open mind
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I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.

Trust people Bit firm Fault Father
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Happily, there’s a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We’re seeing a lot of – actually in Africa – we’re seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

Happily Brain Africa Ghana
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Being Glamorous Had Look
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Capital is necessary but not sufficient to start a business.
Capital Necessary Start Business
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I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

Am Comedian Could Feel
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Carry Everywhere First Me
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Being Comedian Great Interested
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Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

About Actually Around Casual
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Bread Butter Favorite May
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. Lets contribute in our own small ways to build our communities.

Charity Need Cause Contribute
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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Beaten Children Gets Insight
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We need to accelerate growth, but we critically need to also reverse the growth in population.

Need Accelerate growth Reverse Population
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Discover Enjoy Lots Love
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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Choice Full Generous Level
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Serious stories World Failure Death
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A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

A Real Man Complete Days Find
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I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.

Been Cardiovascular Caribbean Classes
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Hate women Abstract way Never learns
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I used to eat big meals at 2 A.M. and base it on my schedule. But I don't do that no more.

Base Big Eat Meals
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Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

Born Different Different Things Leave
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'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'

Also Beautiful Being Instinct
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I don't drink but to all the pain! All my scars are beautiful.

Drink Pain Scars Beautiful
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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Belonging Ever Live Others
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I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Age Almost Digital Happy
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Its ok to follow a few trends here and there but dont be that person who always has to follow every trend! If it isn't putting money in your pocket, stop wasting your time.

Trends Follow Money Pocket
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Hard times...but God always comes through.
Hard times God Always Come
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They will never support or do anything nice for you but ALWAYS expect you to support them.

Will never Support Always Expect
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The people who raised us left Themselves in Us, some in tiny particles and some a whole lot. It would take certain events for those particles to reveal themselves. Be careful my dear, Not all attributes are Yours

People Be careful Reveal Particles
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Love is not love until you share it. Love is not love until you give it away. Sometimes the person you should share it with is yourself but unfortunately most people don’t think they are deserving of their own Love.

Love Share it Give it Yourself
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Another Arrange Constraint Design
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Around Does Fertilizer Good
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