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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Have seen In life Virtually Intelligence
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Doubt impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Doubt impels Truth Knowledge Faith
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I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

Lost My faith God My daughter
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

So much Plastic surgery Recognize myself
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Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

Everybody Look like Showmanship Rock stars
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

Appreciate Positive experience Religion New family
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So everybody is happy, ... You know, the fans are happy. We're happy. I'm digging it.

Everybody Happy Fans Digging it
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People seem to think that if you didn't do the same things you did 25 years ago, then, you know, then things have changed. But we're not doing anything really any different. You know, we go out, we have a good time. Everybody has always had relationships all around the road.

People seem Same things Relationship
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware

All journeys Secret destinations
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

People relate Authentically Humanly God
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The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

The atheist Nearer To God Believer
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We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Be redeemed Extent See ourselves
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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Using power Compulsion World Cautious
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

The world Comprehensible Embraceable
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Solitude is the place of purification.

Solitude Place Purification
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And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

Devil Against God Eternity No decision
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To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Look away World Reach God
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One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
Nature Expect Turned Club
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Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

Identified With love Real outgoing
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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Close My door Surrender myself Book
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Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.

Have something Stands In relation
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Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

Nothing Doom man Belief Movement
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For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

God Want Believe in Defended
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The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now—or, as Buber puts it, in the present.

Possible relationship God Address
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What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.

Manifold Frightening Prefer How many
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I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.

Mirror Exchange starts You see Done something
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I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about.

Hungry For knowledge Learn Brighter
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As kids we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

As kids Complain Being poor How rich
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That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It’s worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

This generation Least racist Time Club
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You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool?

You make Some money Show face Inspire people
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I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

Collect art I drink wine Exposed
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I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

Being god Work Hard
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I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Think relationships Broken up Media
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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

Successful people Bigger fear Failure
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.

Reasons Inequality Country Everyone
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I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.

Myself Certain way People Stay true
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My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.

My brands Extension Emotional attachment
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My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

Related to Person Clothes Extension
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Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?

Racism Taught Home Teenager
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Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.

Attaining wealth People Success Music
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Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

Racial relations Think Proper credit
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When you’re growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you’ve let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Growing up Your superhero In love
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

First album Need pen My memory
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Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.
Make music Good collaborator Foundation
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You can want success all you want. But to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip, you can’t sleep, one eye open, for real, and forever.
Want success Slip Sleep Forever
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People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.

Respect success Music People
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All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see. Nobody else but me.

Dreams Nobody else Believe
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Don’t tell me what was said about me… Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you

Tell me Said About me Comfortable
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You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.

Learn more Failure Success
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We hustle out of a sense of hopelessness. Sort of a desperation. Through that desperation, we become addicted. But we feel we have nothing to list. So we offer you, well, we offer our lives. What do you bring to the table

Hustle Sense Hopelessness Desperation
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