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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Accomplish Act Constrain Enemy
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Army Discipline Esteem Formidable
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The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Authorized Congress Constitution Declaring
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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Abandon Constitution Guide Never
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Attack Battle Beaten Both
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Conscientious Dangerous Ignorance More
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Believe Fully Humans Important
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Answer Any Asked Because
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

About Constantly More Paranoid
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I've never been knocked unconscious in my entire career.

Been Career Entire Entire Career
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Actions Conscious Less Lives
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Arises Around Attention Become
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Being Beyond Consciousness Essence
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Case Confident Constantly Defense
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Am Aware Better Better Person
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When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

About Also Being Complex
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There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

Aware Constitute Groups Idea
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Consistent Else General Idea
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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Absorb Education Effects Expression
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Age Charm Consist Different
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Among Considered Equivalent Father
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It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

About Awesome Concept Consider
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

Above Below Children Consist
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Benefits Bequeath Children Conserve
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I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.

Art Boy Considered Dog
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Conservative Defense Freedom Frighten
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Art Constant Continue Fall
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Considered Dangerous Jail Repressive
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

We All Self-conscious Just
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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Aggression Culture Disposition Independent
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Activities Dreams Interpretation Knowledge
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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Itself May Nature Unconscious
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Awareness Change Choose Conscience
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Change Choice Life Principles
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Basically Because Character Consistent
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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Carefully Consider Definition Experience
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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

Ocean Sea Water
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If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.

Bill-of-rights Forefathers Pollution
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My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

Dad Was Never Married
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There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.

Banned Cannot Communal Consensus
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When you're coming up with new material, it's not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it's working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You're constantly rebuilding.

When New Coming Material
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Consists Each Greet Love
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In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

Being Consciousness Enables End
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

About Better Constantly Could
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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

About Advice Best Better
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