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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Calling Favorite First Friend
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I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

Anarchist Best Candidate Carefully
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Because them write “Beware Of Dogs” for gate no mean say lion no fit still dey the backyard.

Gate Backyard Dey Beware
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Ever Live Meaning Means
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

Away Bread Camps Comforting
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
About Caring Happen Happiness
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This night you’re looking nice. I like food and you’re looking Rice

Night Looking nice Food Rice
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Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Alive Being Many Miracle
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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Allow Bodies Genuinely Heal
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

Always Another Being Being Human
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You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

Carry Communication Earth Environment
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We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

After Because Begin Continue
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If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

Believes Call Comprehensive Feel
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Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Beings Compassion Fill Hearts
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

Conditions Effectively Even Help
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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Basic Daily Daily Life Everyone
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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Cannot Ignore Know Love
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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Bloom Deal Just Make
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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Actions Artistic Human Human Actions
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Enemies Enemy Governments Invent
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With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Afraid Anything Because Child
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Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Alive Always Aware Being
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It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Available Be Happy Conditions Enough
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Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Condition Every Every Time Go
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It’s not easy catching a loose snake in the dark.
Snake The dark Catching
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Identify the enemy which is oftentimes our own attitude. Have faith and trust God to see you through the season.

The enemy Attitude Faith Trust God
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Admit your own inadequacy. The only people God can’t help are those who don’t think they need His help.

Inadequacy God Need
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You can be the next Obama, you can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, you can be the next Beyoncé. It’s really up to you to put in the effort. The common theme is hard work.

Obama Mark Zuckerberg Hard work Effort
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Always remember that integrity is key, never compromise on your standards, and never compromise on your values.

Integrity Standards Never Values
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Often our eyes are on everything and everyone – except God – the one who can solve our problems.

Eyes God Solve Problems
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We need to address extreme poverty with a sense of urgency especially given the untapped wealth and human capital that Africa is endowed with.

Poverty Urgency Capital Africa
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Africa needs women entrepreneurs to be big, bold, innovative, and have a growth mindset, to unleash their wealth in terms of people and resources. We also need to foster an ecosystem that enables innovation and entrepreneurship.

Africa Women Entrepreneurs Big
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Invest in yourself, crave knowledge, read, read and read.

Invest Crave Yourself Read
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I want to see Nigeria become one of the most industrious countries in the world. I want to see Africa be place where no one writes those articles about wars, disease and famine

Nigeria Africa Wars Disease
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The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

World Core Political Economic
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Without women's equal access to positions of decision-making power and a clear process to get there, gender equality, global security, and peace will never be realized.

Access Clear Equal Gender
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I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in anymore.

Anymore Believe Aspects Honor
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Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

Honor People Able Revise
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Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

Against Brake Corrosive Economic
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Extreme inequality is no temporary blip. It is hard-wired into our economies.

Economies Extreme Inequality Temporary
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Our economic system has enabled companies and individuals to use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth while the benefits for the poorest in society have shrunk.

Benefits Capture Share Retain
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By allowing super wealthy corporations and individuals to avoid paying their fair share of tax, tax havens are denying governments' revenue that could and should be spent on schools, healthcare, and other essential services.

Spent Revenue Share Avoid
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When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.

About Talk Careful Giving
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Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.

Cutting Down Forest Loss
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We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

Act Continue Crisis Future
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The U.N. must be made more inclusive, accountable, democratic, effective, and reflective of a world in which political and economic power has shifted.

Shifted Power Economic World
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Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

Callous Conflict Drive Famine
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Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

Behind Being Billions Economic
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Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

Challenges Global Growth Inclusive
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Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.

Back Cutting Development Far
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