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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Sharpen Blunt Mellow Personal
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Life Live Splendid Gift
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Live Build Cheap House
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Young Think Lose Sure
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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Razor Skin Stray Line
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Great things have small beginnings.

Great Things Small Beginnings Have
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The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

World Sense Until Force
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Solid Break Feel Term
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Behavior Had Human Make
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

About Alive Did Done
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Job Kids Manners Learning
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

About Again Beginning Came
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If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.

Believe Today Learn Same
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Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Fate Does Chance Matter
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And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become … all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings.

Human Animal Race Cruel
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When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.

People Courage Resist Right
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His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

Light Mouth Gash Human
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Harder Work You Luckier
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I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.

Like Make Movies Really
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

Documentaries DVD Extra Footage
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

Actor Anything Approach Because
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

Grateful Knew Learned Never
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

Act Again Almost Easy
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I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.

Average Beach Everyday Flip
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I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

Amazing Appreciate Dedicate Fan
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When someone feels trapped in what feels like a hopeless situation, pulling the trigger or swallowing pills or hanging yourself seems like the only way out.

Feel Pill Situation Out
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Maternal desire is the profound emotional need to mother a baby. This stems from either the tragic loss of her own child, or the inability to have one at all.

Desire Emotion Baby Stem
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I once dated a guy who washed his car more than he washed his hair.
Wash Hair Car Once
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You do what it takes to protect your family.

Protect Take Family You
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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Nature Place Visit Home
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You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

Preach Sermons Sinners Short
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Would you be my Juliet and I'll be your Romeo my love.

Love Juliet Romeo You
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It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Peace Disintegrate Better We
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Africa Best Ever Principles
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I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

Image Portrait Kept Push
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Debate Culture History Divergence
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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Things Own Like Inanimate
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I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.

Ambition Worth Blood Nigerian
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I seem to be like a hero to people, it's crazy.

Hero People Crazy Like
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Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.

Trophies Good Hope Life
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We complement the men and should be seen as value-adding.

Complement Men Value Adding
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Women need to be giving the opportunities to tap into their talents, and energy is being wasted on a daily basis.

Women Need Talents Energy
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

Social Media Simply Actions
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Black Women World Us
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I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.

Blow Did Expect Good
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I like me some Bape, you know. But I wear anything, to be honest. Adyn, Rick Owens, Givenchy, anything. I shop from everywhere.

Anything Everywhere Honest Know
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When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

African Back Fabric Home
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Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

Able Baggy Bit Cuts
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I have a lot of tailors. If I want something made in 12 hours, it will be made in 12 hours.
Hours Lot Made Something
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Umm... my favourite Wizkid tune of all time would be 'Don't Dull' 'cos I recorded the track in, like, 5 minutes. The beat was ready, we went into the studio and freestyled, and it was ready. The song became really, really big, so I think 'Don't Dull' is still my favourite.

Beat Became Big Dull
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