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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Conceive Eyes Ideas Just
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Beginning Fortunes Ideas Points
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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Always Brains Dangerous Money
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

About Going Just Much
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Another Blind Needs Person
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Been Earth Gold Has-Been
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Big Big Opportunity May Now
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Balance Bicycle Brain Effort
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Advance Backwards Civilization Flow
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Am Chained England English
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Any Before Defeat Easiest
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Carbon Character Man Persistence
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

See Terrible Thing Vision
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Autobiography Distort Facts Fiction
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Achievement Born Great Great Achievement
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Any Burning Burning Desire Cut
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

Ever Frauds Go Intellectual
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Attained Beyond Failure Great
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Best Calls Come Enjoyment
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Any Idea May Mind
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

After Effort Fully Only
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Achieve Beliefs Feelings Harmony
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Drawn Enough Eye Hold
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Achievement Desire Everything Hope
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You give before you get.

Before Get Give You
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I've never abandoned the novel.
Abandoned Never Novel
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

Art Biography Done Great
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment

About Charming Friends Had
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

Always Craft Equipped Felt
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

About Attractive Begin Being
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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Converted Culture Destroy Does
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Against Battles Fought Strike
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Anyone Colonial Complex Knows
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Delightful Most Must Senses
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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Am Looking Me Out
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

Dead Generate He Hostility
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Alone Little Much Together
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Consume Happiness Producing Right
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Writers should provoke disagreement.

Disagreement Provoke Should Writers
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Most Pathetic Person Sight
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Beloved Certain Friends Good
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Purpose
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

African Kicked Need Only
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Adversity Being Challenging Courage
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
Authority Feel ICan Many
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Another Anyone Difficult Energy
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

Aspect British City Council
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Away Balance Give How
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Always Back Holding Lose
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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