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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Beautiful Beauty Look Poor
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

After Building Come Crisis
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The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

Believe Change Coming Country
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

Also Apart Area Election
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Anger Bottom Breath Coming
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If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Benefit Entire Everyone Family
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You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Also Child Come Deep
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Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Anyone Aware Being Breath
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

About Flowers Joy Mad
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Come Evil Letting Lies
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To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Young Poet Bird Wing
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Achieving Aid Better Colonialism
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Books Found Point Reason
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

Come Exotic Mad Place
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

Although Believing Cheat Con
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Art Books Fiction Learn
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So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

Become Divorced Lifestyle Many
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

Arrows Banging Computer Detective
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

Altogether Childbirth Could Different
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From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Age Early Early Age Humor
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

Affair Break Depression Father
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If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Acting Away Breathing Me
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Conscience Doing England Enjoying
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If one is not appreciated where he comes from, it would be hard for outsiders to support you.

Appreciated Comes-from Outsiders Support
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When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

Distance Enemy Blame Shame
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How much do you believe in yourself? How much do you believe in what you carry on the inside? This is where success starts from. Believe in yourself, let it become a state of mind. Everything is foreign.

How-much Believe Yourself
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Separate yourself from the familiar. You cannot hang out with people who make you weak and expect to me strong. You cannot hang around people who feel intimated by you. Instead of being inspired. Trust me, it won’t be long before they begin to plot against you.

Separate Yourself Familiar People
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There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

Any Lick Nothing Outside
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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Just Just As Much Made Money
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Art Close Economics Kin
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Always Aroused Born Create
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One thing that frightens leaders and lead them to a number of excesses is usually fear of death. No leader should fear death. In fact, you should accept the fact that from the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death.

Leaders Frightens Death Excesses
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

After Congratulate Death Dream
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From the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death.

Moment Leadership Sacrificed Death
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The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it's about going from dead to alive!

Gospel Bad Good Dead
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No painstakingly perfected air brushed picture can hide it.A prognosis of nature.A disease from birth.It glares no matter your best efforts.

Painstakingly Perfected Air brushed Picture
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Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.

Gratitude Grateful Giving Grace
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Only real democracy can move our nation forward towards progress, and earn her the respect she deserves from the international community.

Democracy Our nation Forward Respect
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Our youths, in particular, can see no hope on the horizon, and many can only dream of escaping from our shores to join the brain drain. Is this the Nigeria we want? We are plagued also by periodic balance of payments crises, which have led to a perennial shortage of essential drugs, that has turned our hospitals and clinics into mortuaries.

Youths Horizon Dream Escaping
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No one can give you power. It is yours. Take it! From this day, show to the world that anyone who takes the people of Nigeria for fools is deceiving himself and will have the people to answer to.

Power Nigeria Fools Deceiving himself
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The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
Away Dogma New Right
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A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Century Experience Great Many
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Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

Another Beings Divide Done
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Winning comes at a price but so does losing. Whatever you do, don’t let the fear of losing stop you from working towards your goals.

Winning Price Losing Stop
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I never run away from the responsibility. I'm used to it.

Away Never Responsibility Run
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
Consciousness Different Human Human Consciousness
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The only thing that can protect me from someone coming from behind are the rules.
Behind Coming Me Only
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

African Bondage Exactly Expect
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