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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Again Anything Become Even
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

About Always American Declaration
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Adult All-Around Am Around
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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Agnostic Any Bottom Evidence
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
War Luxury Small nations
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Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.

Good works Forgotten instantly World
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Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.

Taken away Lasting enjoyment Proper object
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I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Picture Mind Dollars Think
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Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.

God Can do Anything Fear nothing
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They are stories I wrote because my friends are gone, a lot of them, and if you can’t be angry about it, how the hell much did you care to begin with?

Stories Friends Gone Angry about
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The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

Chef Even Fire His
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You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Choose Friends Family Look
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There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Kind Men Worrying Next world
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Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience

Live Folks Myself Majority
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The love that money can’t afford to buy, it comes naturally from God’s blessings.

Love Money Afford God
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I always believe that everything is possible. Just to inspire my fellow African youths that IF WE BELIEVE, WE CAN!!!

Believe Everything Possible Inspire
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

Your brain Greatest weapon Heart
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You cannot transform the society of the people if the people are not part of the change.

Transform Society People Part
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Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

Acceptable Belonging Box Candidates
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

Accept Far Grander Imagine
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I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

Dive Even Flip Me
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Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can’t fool anymore.

Education Political Educate People
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I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter.

About Favorite FavoriteThing Gatekeepers
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You can't always be a leading lady.

Always Lady Leading You
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There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Back Better Career Degree
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Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Agency Because Car Car Keys
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

Afterlife Consoling Idea Immensely
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Always Apt Beautiful Better
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

Down Get Paper Remember
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It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Dope Gossip Inside Vatican
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Failure He Man Success
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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Eat Food Get Health
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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

American Auto Back Before
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.

Man Condemn His enemy Wiser
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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

Really Know Person Shoes
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Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.

Remember Always easy Look back Yesterday
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One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

One thing Certain circumstances Do anything
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Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.
Sometimes Kill Little Live
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How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

Because Believe Comforting Finds
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I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

Anglican Certain Church Country
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Tight place Goes against Cannot hold Give up
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

The truth Kindest Give folks
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Really great Truly noble Everyday life
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I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Braver Have Lost all Nothing
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

About Absolutely American Being
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It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

Oppressed Enslaved Wished Lighter
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Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Everything Money Averted face Worth
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Being an indigenous talent of the African race;

Being Indigenous talent Race
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We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Cannot Course Disprove Fairies
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Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can’t. It’s always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.

Obeying God Public evils Always safest
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