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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can’t switch gears. It’s a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they’re the same thing.

Weakness Strength Subtle Situation
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The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

Curiosity Important Feed Incite
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I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist.

Hungry Cultures Exist Suffer
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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Even Extremely Heaven Hell
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Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Chaos Europe Lights Nothing
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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

Arouse Doom Flowing Nation
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Activity Cast Distress Emotions
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Alter Altering Attitudes Discovery
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
Alter Altering His Life
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Candor Faults Forgiven Him
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences

Anywhere Art Been Beyond
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game

American Baseball Game Great
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Action Control Direct Feeling
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed

Beautiful Flowers Garden Give
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Accommodate Business Cannot Convenience
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Afraid Am Back Better
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Been Before Cannot Did
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Artist Bad BadManners Humanity
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Death Nothing Happen
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Beautiful Happen More
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Race Perish Power
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Nervous Stage Help But
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Feels Force Full He
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Life Living Make Say
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Call Falsehood Get Live
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Warts All Songs Think
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Alter Altering Attitudes Beings
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Songs Really Direct Interviews
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Contradict One Thing Only Only One Thing
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Write Another Breakup Record
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Comedy is what I love doing and I like to make it as real as possible so that people can relate with it.

Relate People Possible Love
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

People Light Dark Quickly
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Arguments People Choose Waste
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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Ahead Desert Saharan Cross
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Money Criminal Instead Scholar
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

Instrospective Weird Harmful Probably
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Passport Travel Americans Lot
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Dignity Break Matter Empower
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I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.

Interrupt Professional Wrestler Jump
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This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Love String Significance Miracle
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Alone Cannot Like Lonely
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Always Cannot Control Goes
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.You can never get enough of what you don't want.

Enough Get Never Want
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Choose Round Sides Up
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Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

After Anything Attain Go
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Been Cry Laugh Make
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