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Everything that you’ve gone through will work for you if you keep hope alive. What you’ve gone through will give you the credibility and moral right to help others walking the same path.

Path Alive Moral Give
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Purpose gives your life direction and a goal. Without it, there will be no passion to live. When you lose your purpose, there will be confusion, frustration, discouragement and disillusionment.

Passion Goal Life Live
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Purpose is what gives life enthusiasm; it is the womb that enables the nurturing of ambitions until there is a fulfilment. It gives birth to anticipations and fuels the passion to accomplish a dream.

Life Dream Birth Womb
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All men are driven either by design or default. Instead of strolling along with the “default circumstances” you find yourself in, strive to align your life with the instruction manual of the designer of life; God Almighty.

God Life Design Strive
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Before Books Floor Furniture
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

Bunch Chosen Crime Dark
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Artificial Backgrounds Conformity Consequences
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

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According Changed Had How
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

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Divorce Divorces Easy Get
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

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Beautiful Beautiful Life Fun Get
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

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Enjoy Enjoy Life Every Get
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

Correct Could Create England
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

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Get Hip Hop Lot Making
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Accept Best Content Craves
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Black Far Ignorance Infinity
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

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Combination Feeling Me Soul
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

Based Common Emotions Fundamental
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
Any Beautiful Realism Think
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

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American Better His Just
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

Absolutely Am Bored Come
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

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Enough Feels Get Grown
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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

Am Anything Down Dream
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

Decrease Happiness Human Human Happiness
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Associated Darkness Fancy Horror
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

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Able Being Blessed Career
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

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Crazy Crazy World Daughter Good
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

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Any Barack Barack Obama Before
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

Cosmic Escape Fixed Hence
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Be Original Being Believe Common
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

Fanatics Few Marked Minds
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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.

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Been Call Calling Conscious
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

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About American Life Make
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

Able Accomplish Away Christianity
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

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Doing Easy Every Every Time
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

Affects Concealed Conflict Discoveries
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

Any Anything Better Cannot
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'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

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Beautiful Dramatic Good Heavy
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

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America Basically Dead Hip Hop
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

Am Being Beings Conceive
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

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America Could Government Help
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Heroic Interruptions Judicious Just
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

Allow Altered Any Been
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Aim Endless Hence Imaginary
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
Better Better Time Having Immorality
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Beautiful Children Extent Fellow
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Any Communism Largely Like
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Believe Hard His Know
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

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Around Bass Big Definitely
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