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God did not create us to abandon us.

God Create Us Abandon
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Demand Did Never Nothing
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I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

Worked hard Anyone Achieve Results
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You owe it to yourself to evolve beyond anybody's imagination especially for those people that didn't rate you

Imagination Evolve Owe
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I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

Wish Long Covet Myself
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America Civilization Profound Change
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“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Politics Ability Explain Happen
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Purpose Feel Power Regret
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

Love Him Both Fell
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I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Success Today Friend Heart
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A phantom queen through all the house shall rove; and all the joy doth flee the sculptured forms of beauty once did give; and in the penury of eyes that live, all Aphrodite's grace is lost in empty space.

Queen Beauty Penury Grace
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Feeling Matter Mind Anyone
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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

Books Heaven World
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

Marriage Love Dream Dead
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I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised.

Improvise Movie
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I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.

Career Creative Music
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I think that his ability to reach out to people was because of his sincerity in what he was doing. And the truth in which he did it in. He had no ulterior motive. He wasn't trying to be something.

Ability People Truth Motive
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When I was going through transition, I didn't push it on everyone.

Everyone Going Push Through
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I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me thirty years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Journey Supreme Dream Build
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
Water Taste Black From
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Thing Past Cloud View
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My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Race Believe Begin Fact
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Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.

Knock Home Alone Friend
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Sail Safe Habor Catch
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Forget People Feel Them
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People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.

People
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If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.

Art Nice Already Next
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I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I'm in a wheelchair. And I realized that it's not that, it's because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That's a universal thing.

Falling Love Girlfriend Dating
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We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like,

Mother Children Book Work
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We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

Couple Long Road trips Hassle
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I didn't feel like I was putting anything good into the world, even though it was funny. I wanted to do something more positive that would have an impact. So even when I'm doing naked push-ups or whatever, it's astounding to see how people respond to it.

Impact People Naked Astounding
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The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn’t make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.

World Standard High Fierce
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There was a huge period where I was filming and studying. But then we went into summer and it became easier. I did find combining the two difficult and I haven't figured out how to do it effortlessly just yet.

Period Huge Summer Difficult
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

Writing Movie Total Dialogue
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I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.

Accept Respect Term Time
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We didn't grow up with TV as a viable means of supporting yourself.

Viable Grow Beautiful Support
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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.
Career Advancing Emotional Dating
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

Think Teach Children Begin
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Book Dance Mind Every
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Happen Lip Their Came
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

Band Beatles Could Did
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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

Bother Me Turned
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Years Dream Sail Safe
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There was a huge period of time  where  I was filming and studying. But then we went into summer and it became easier. I did find combining the two difficult and I haven't figured out how to do it effortlessly just yet.

Studying Huge Period Filming
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Dating a slim/slender guy is cool. The only problem is when you are lying on his chest then his ribs draw Adidas lines on your face.

Draw Line Face Chest
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Dear ladies, if your boyfriends didn’t wish you a happy Mother’s Day, you should stop breastfeeding them.

Wish Happy Day Stop
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It is better for a man to be stingy with his money because he hustled for it than a woman to deny him a hole she didn’t drill.

Better Man Stingy His
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

Rise Die Least Sick
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If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.
Fun Good Thing Never
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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