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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

American Bits Books Broadcast
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Contempt Culture Require Disrespect
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Contemplate Existence Moral
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Answer Baby Born Complete
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Contrast Dark Shadows Earth
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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Begin Consistent Control Daily
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Control Controls Having How
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Better Contemplate Deliver Illuminate
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I believe firmly in God's control in life.

Believe Control Firmly God
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If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

Preach Rid Sidetracked Stuff
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If he tells you (lady) that he is a contractor, ask him to show you evidence of all the contracts he has done. Because the contract he is talking about may be you. He wants to eat you off! Don't be a fool!

Show Contract Fool Eat
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Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Ages Between Continue Fascinating
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It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Control Discipline Influence Lives
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Admission Compromise Compromised Contradictory
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Acquired Affairs Born Control
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Content How Impressive Matter
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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Destroy Does Faith Force
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Brilliantly Continually Disguised Faced
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Contributor Efforts Greatest International
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
As Far As Content Depends Entire
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Belongs Content Lacking Nothing
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Confidence Contentment Friend Greatest
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Better Contract Friendship Man
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In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.

Business Control Impatient Important
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People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.

True Being Constrained Corner
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Compare Compete Content Everybody
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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Along Anxious Chill Control
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Close Conflict Control Dwelling
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Book Container Create Itself
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

About Communion Contact Dignity
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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Always Continue Find Habit
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Community Continually Ears Ever
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Contrition Deep Eloquently Grief
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I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

Control Forgive Forgiven I Tried
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When you have legends who want to do music with you, and you befriend the Kendrick Lamars and the Chance the Rappers, that's due to you really being authentically hip-hop and not being contemporary Christian.

Befriend Being Chance Christian
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Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm.

Artist Artistic Being Considered
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Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
Black Black And White Contrast Highlight
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Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.

Again Almost Been Conditions
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I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.

Constant Contact Conversations Day
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Act Battle Contend Fighting
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Continue Exist Force Long
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Another Becomes Bit Exercises
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Also Anymore Around Behave
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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Afraid Another Appear Because
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Artist Extinction Personality Progress
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Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs.

Care Care Costs Costs Health
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

Am Attention Control Control Freak
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'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

Admit Am Away Children
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