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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Against Any Born Conspiracy
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Almost Almost All Conscious Country
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency Last Refuge Unimaginative
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My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

Africa Constitution Diversity Gray
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We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

Constitution Constitutional Deal Democracy
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If we avail ourselves to serve in terms of the Constitution, we should be prepared if, indeed, those we serve deem it appropriate to suffer the hardship that comes with our constitutional obligations.

Appropriate Avail Be Prepared Constitution
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I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right and do so in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.

Accept Constitution Exercise Just
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

Also Big Breaking Confront
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Adulthood Care Consequences Defining
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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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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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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Consent Creep Feels Impulse
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Animals Cannot Catch Consumes
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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Before you are tempted to get depressed, consider those who have a harder life than you and yet are happy.
Depressed Harder Life Happy
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The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

The America Negro Never
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Be consistent and never give up in life ... Even tissue paper, hand sanitizer and face mask no believe say them go blow like this life na turn by turn.

Consistent Never Life Tissue paper
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When the consciousness of Heaven hits you, holiness will become a reality.

Reality Become Hits Will
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God is not a quenching water, He is a consuming fire.

Fire Water God Consuming
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Ability Around Consciousness Contains
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God is a consuming fire not an ice block. God's personality is fire, His language is fire. When appeared to Moses, He appeared in the form of fire, when He came to rescue Elisha, He came with chariots of flaming fire.

Rescue Fire Came Form
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Battlefield Both Chaos Constant
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Act Beyond Commit Conduct
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Consume Happiness Producing Right
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Consciousness Delight Focused Gift
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Artist Being Constantly Could
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Instead of being an insignificant grain of sand, you must become a conspicuous mountain of fulfilment. Make fulfilling purpose your driving force against the odds that may come against you.

Come Driving Instead Against
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Artificial Backgrounds Conformity Consequences
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.

Nas
Been Call Calling Conscious
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

Nas
Conscious Doing Gangsta Just
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

Allow Altered Any Been
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Conscience Inner Inner Voice Looking
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Among Cannibals Constituents Dinner
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The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Feeling Constantly Growing Hear
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

About Be Happy Comfort Constantly
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I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

Conspirator Long Mistrust
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