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I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

About Blow Brain Computer
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Never have more children than you have car windows.

Car Children More Never
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This generation of Nigerians, and, indeed the future generation, have no country other than Nigeria; we shall stay and salvage it together!

Future Stay Country Salvage
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Average Discuss Events Great
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Always Individual Obligation Only
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: they offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

Twist Minds Money Promise
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If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Any Ask Cannot Favor
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If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Another Any Anyone Back
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition Any Cannot Despicable
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Let us put the recent past behind us and forget our old battles.
Battles Recent Behind Forget
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This generation of Nigerians and indeed the future generation have no country other than Nigeria, we shall stay and salvage it together!

Stay Future Country Together
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Abject Billions Countries Developing
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We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Capacity Deal Find Means
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I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first.

Love Twitter At First
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Mind Center Known Find
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I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

Love Dressing Up Doing
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The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

Vacation Love Most About
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The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.

Thing The About Christmas
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Anything Battle Countenance Individual
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Ecstasy Enough Find Joy
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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Action Constructive Ndecision Reverie
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Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Belief Believe Beyond Force
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Colonial Country Fight Gain
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Arab Spring Bit Country
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Childhood Doorway Full Met
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If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.

Ballot Believe Box Change
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Early Induced Infancy Trance
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Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

America Ever Individuals Know
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Always Break Breeze Cooling
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Above Contents Examining Mental
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The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

Great Human Individual Inner
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

After Altered Changed Color
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

Dangerous Destroy Inadequate Mankind
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Am Company Country Cured
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Against Beneath Crush Down
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Anything Blind Job Kingdom
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Before Beware Finds Hard
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Center Close Edge Going
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Again Beings Cancer Communities
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I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Always Been Brought Chemistry
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Access Always Boxes Century
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Never index your own book.
Book Never Own Your
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True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
Heart Mind Pocket True
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Because Effect Great Had
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Been Behind Cliche Eternal
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I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Believe Dragons Dreams Even
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