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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action

Once Happenstance Twice Coincidence
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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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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

Wife Kids Just Don't
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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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Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Bridges Build Regions Unexplored
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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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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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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Ages Generals Knights Like
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Voice Happened Before Tap
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The day of individual happiness has passed.
Day Happiness Individual Passed
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.

Afraid Better Tehran Hear
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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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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can’t switch gears. It’s a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they’re the same thing.

Weakness Strength Subtle Situation
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I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.
Buy Things End Ridiculous
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I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

Was Repressed Person School
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The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Adversary Against Art Attention
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

Classmates Flinch Gesture Afraid
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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Cowardice Expression Stupidity
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I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

Assurance Dictates Go Providence
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As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Admitted Cause Doubting Even
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Activity Cast Distress Emotions
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Any young man who gets on his knees to propose to a girl, is not just an idiot, he's a bloody fool, a compound buffoon.

Young Man Propose Girl
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Before Gained Ideas Lives
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Another Bad Believe Change
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Away Community Impulse Sympathy
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Both Both Sides Bring Closer
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Single Individual Theory
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Accommodate Business Cannot Convenience
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Always Anything Believe Everyone
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Every Law Contrary Potent
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Actually Catch Character Darker
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Come Force Idea Individual
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Afraid Am Back Better
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Said Several Thousand Universe
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Him Individuals Man Many
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Been Before Cannot Did
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Another Done Last Returns
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Timid Impossible
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Raise Invention Eyes
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Side Bolt
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Race Perish Power
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Feels Force Full He
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Could Decide Drunkenness Experience
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I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

Longer Buy Papers Tabloids
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