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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Alive Time Painful Also
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Beads Control Crow Dropping
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Voice Crowd Roar Brave
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Help Artist Concerned Reflect
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

War Honor Yield Peace
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Adds Conversation Myself Often
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Consent Creep Feels Impulse
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Love Conquers All Things
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Conclusion Economists End Laid
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Consume Happiness More Producing
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Idea
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Always Believes Bible Convinced
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Conversation Her Lacks Power
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Forces Threat Nation Great
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Forms Opinion Support Public
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Nature Believe
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Demand Perfection Practice Concert
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

Being Concerns Decent Gandhi
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Always Any Concise Enjoyed
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

Common Context Cut Earned
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

Biggest Change Constant Growth
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The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.

As Far As Become Bureaucracy Change
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Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.

Congress Everyone Federal Job
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Best Between Charter Continuing
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Am Convinced I Am Innocence
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I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.

Because Countries Economy I Think
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Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

American Economic Impact Increasing
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As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.

Begins Economy Goes Grand
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Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Fear Bred Arms Geared
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I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

About Always Being Company
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Grave State Cry Fear
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My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

Been Connection Doubt Fragile
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I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

Person Modest Confident Very
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

About Accepted Away Became
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Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Reason Playing Ounce Each
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Also Book Considered Hip-Hop
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Trust Proud Fear Avoid
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

About Anybody Basically Caught
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Disloyal Confuse Honest Doctrine
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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Aims Achieve Effort Scare
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I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

Day Emotions First Idea
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Courts Obey Orders Troops
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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Existed Ever Book Join
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Accomplishments Again Always Come
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In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Book Bring Comfort Fame
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