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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

Genius Overflowing vitality Fertilize Nature
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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Real freedom Mastery Knowledge Historic conditions
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Most radical Revolutionary Conservative
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Totalitarian education Convictions Capacity
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Under conditions Tyranny Act Think
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Only crime Confront us Perplexity Radical evil
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Been Birth Children Consequences
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Activists Always Building Committed
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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

Revolutionary action Theatrical concession
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Blind Discouraging Expedient Faith
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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.

Slavery Social condition Laboring classes
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Hardly Better way Discussion Releasing
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,

Mass leaders Power Lies Propaganda
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The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.

Possible metaphor Conceive Life Mind
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The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.

National crime Violated Constitutional right
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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the non totalitarian world.

Existence Non totalitarian world
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I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

Age Confirmed Prep School
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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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The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Consolation Feeling Inside Nice
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Really understand Person Point View
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

One thing Majority Rule Person's conscience
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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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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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I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

Become Boy Consumed Creation
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Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

Always Ambition Bad BadOne
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I will continue to use my position… to rekindle the spirit of women for the utilization of their potentials towards the socio-economic & political development of our country.

Will continue Position Spirit Women
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Nigerian women will continue to be stronger together in love, peace and unity.

Nigerian women Continue Stronger Love
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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 greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Artist Confidence Consolation Doubt
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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Another Conveyed Evil Literal
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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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I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Conclusion People Peculiar Withdrew
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Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people

Concept God New Obsolescence
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Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Confusing First First Thing Girl
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So inconsistent Human nature Undertake
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Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Humor Like Starts Then
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise

Resolve Grace Silence Fault findings
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Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

Government derive Power Consent
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I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Actually may Musical Star in My concert
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I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

Believe Connected Positive energy Power
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I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Really Understand Contract Marriage
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The fool is not he who asks what and when he/ she doesn’t know. The fool is he/she that is so confident that they don’t ask out of pride, so they don’t seem dumb and they still end up making fools of themselves!

Fool Who ask Confident Pride
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People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Around People Constantly Emotions
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Say to yourself- I was made to be global, achieve things only wildest dreams could conceive and only in that incredulity will I find my true purpose in life.

Say Yourself Global Achieve
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Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show.

Another Anything Connected Drama
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I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

Anymore Anything Concerned Enough
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

Always Confident Definitely Feeling
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Alarm Consists Courtship Nor
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Anything Asleep Conduct His
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