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I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Bus Day Depressing Even
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I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower

Okay With School Sister
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People are recognising that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.

People Are Recognising That
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I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

Little More Shy Not
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Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

Even The People Surround
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Citizens Difference Little Make
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I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

Author Believe Man New
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All the other rappers around me aren't saying anything worthwhile. They're lost in rap: all they do is tell you they're a sick MC and they're better than you. I don't want to look like all these other little punk, dress-up, fake, manufactured artists. I'm not a rapper. I'm an activist.

Activist Anything Around Artists
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I haven't just come up with a hit - I'm not like a one-hit-wonder - I've been here for ages. No one is questioning my ability, so just enjoy the wave, spread the wave.

Ability Ages Been Come
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Being Central Dead Enjoy
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Destroy Easily Make Power
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Artist Distinguishes First Great
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Become Facts Legends Make
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Armed Combat Decide Engage
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

About Around Each How
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
Becomes Everything Face Little
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Belittle Created Mystery Something
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
His Made Man Only
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Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Blacks Especially America Have
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Adult Average Between Child
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Ambiguity Inability Neurosis Tolerate
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Every Forcing Him Life
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Another Civilized Civilized Society Disintegration
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

Another Credibility Find Had
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

About Around Deciding Important
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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Abundance Genuinely Gets Happy
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Destruction Ecology Reality Universe
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Beauty Earth Humility Wonder
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Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Another Going Intended Intending
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Attention Burroughs Destruction Emotion
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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Beauty Discovery Majesty Nature
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Aim Biography Discovery History
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Sense of smell Memories
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Beauty Environment Environmental-justice Inspirational
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

Biology Earth Force Future
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I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Not Most Attractive Fella
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Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'

Because Small Been Called
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There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.

Banned Cannot Communal Consensus
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Between Bond Each Highest
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Belief Believe Cultivate Feelings
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

About Course Grown Know
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Consists Each Greet Love
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Difficult Good More Must
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I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.

Balls Defense Dive Floor
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I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

Else Few Guitar Little
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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

Battery Cell Cells Challenge
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I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.

Child Chose Could Denied
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