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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Jesus Cross Myself Loved
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Christianity Experience Pain Deep
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
Love Effort Someone Created
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

Calling Created Gift Emerged
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

Almost Always Barbarian Condemnation
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Another Being Deeply Even
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

The Will Is Beast
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Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Grant That May Pray
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

After Because Fact Hundred
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Cannot Her Include Leads
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

Energy Live Lot More
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A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Memoir Version Perspective Omit
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Mystery Coincidences Emotion Dream
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Heart Drives Characters Passionate
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Ancient times World Patriarchal Catholic
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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Around Enjoy Envy Eyes
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Fiction Author Chaos Chronological order
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Roots Landscape Country People
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Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Being Bewildered Carry Heavy
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If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

Made Me People Star
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Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

Today's Girls Tomorrow's Leaders
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I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Destroy Nuclear Cataclysm Capacity
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I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Definitely Enjoy Very Woman
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Convey Story Particular Idea
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Labor gives birth to ideas.
Birth Gives Ideas Labor
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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Become Financially Heritage Independent
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I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.
Always Heart Made Music
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Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

Area Around Career Detroit
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Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

About Know Like Made
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Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.

Celebrated Detroit Go Tolerated
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I started recording in my sophomore year in high school. I recorded things on my cell phone in my basement.

Basement Cell Cell Phone High
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My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

Become Decided First Freestyle
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I don't ever make moves under pressure.
Ever Moves Pressure
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Better Business Founded Friendship
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Believe Essential I Believe I Believe That
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Coming Dividends Do You Know Gives
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Devoted I Can Less Life
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Become Charity Helps Independent
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Ability Any Coffee Commodity
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Day Despicable Hours Know
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Blame Buck Chief Chief Executive
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I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.
Operate Highest Altitude Music
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My musical career was an accident.

Accident An Career Musical
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
Continue Discuss Entire Entire Life
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There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

Delicious Eat Gonna Hungry
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Delusions Down Fastest Got
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

Brad Brad Pitt Challenge Going
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

Comedians Department Face Great
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

Artistic Came Did Ever
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