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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Hand Energy Ideas Irresistible
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Thinking Probably Reason Engage
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Idealist Person Prosperous Helps
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Grieves Marching Onward Setbacks
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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Men Together Living Must
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Man World Reserve Experience
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Morning Revolution System Believe
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Designs Looks Feels Works
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Discover Definitely Possible Enough
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Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.

Wait Details Matter Right
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For Nigeria to make meaningful progress, our leaders have to be more interested in the price of leadership than in the perks of leadership.

Progress Leader Price Perk
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Whatever foreign activists say, we must appreciate our military. When push comes to shove, they are the only folks defending us from terror.

Push Shove Terror Military
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The more you attack your predecessor the higher the bar is set for you. Know how slippery a road is before knocking those who slipped on it.

Attack Higher Road Bar
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Act Book Bring Creative
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Art Become Hide Magic
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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Always Beautiful Because Best
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Absolutely Best Reader Writer
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I'm going to show the world that I'm not a tyrant, much less a devil.

Show Tyrant Much World
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action

Once Happenstance Twice Coincidence
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.

Burn Idea Problem Passionate
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Yourself Stone Friends Parents
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Rich Bed Wonderful Something
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
Communicating People Through Work
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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Woman Creativity Destroy Judge
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Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Hope Person Defeated Does
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Focus Simplicity Complex Worth
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Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Convince Separates Entrepreneurs Perseverance
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Life People Influence Build
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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

What Does Matter Fate
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Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

Listen Dent Universe Life
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I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Highway Stumps Year Wonder
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I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

Want Pass Smooth Through
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I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Topic Left Learning Person
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There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Trapped Bodies Counter Mountain
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Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Attack Defence Lies Strength
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Destruction Education Ever Invented
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Heartbreak Definitely Deeper Sensibility
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Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Life Broad Embrace Change
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Communicating Dictionary Impact Poet
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Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

Am God I Am Protection
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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Great Honest Life Know
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I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

Entrepreneur Launch Cash Business
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When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Relationship Putting Chips Break
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We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.

Universe Create Artist Poet
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To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.

Working Game Changer Confidence
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