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Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Ability Behave How Patience
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I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.
Use To Be Able
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I've always been a little shy about taking my clothes off, but I don't worry about it any more.

Always Shy Little Been
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Relationship Untrue Partnership
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Achieving Successful Relationship Disaster
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Arts Defense Emotional Important
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I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Ask Because Embarrassed Every
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

Afghanistan Anytime Democracy Dream
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Acts Idle Infinitely Knowledge
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Hills Itself Jails Justice
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Alone Little Low Our
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Coming Equality Generations Learn
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A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Advantage Continue Did Feel
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Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Because Before Decision Depending
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Give Little Possessions Truly
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We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do.

Ability Anything Believe Clearly
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As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Children Computer Literate Nearly
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Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Because Complete Cultivated Difficult
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Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.

Europeans Groupie Mentality Seem
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My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

About Because Bring Feel
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

Because Dictate Figure Hot
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Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

Confidence Exact Gold Impact
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

Age Base Elegant Find
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It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.

Accomplish Actually Always Because
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

America Enemies Get Hate
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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Contact Life Lost Reality
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Angels Demons Economists Everything
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

Before Big Little Me
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It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Words Unsaid Split Friends
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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

God Unending greatness Possible
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Affects Also Aspects Because
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

Accepted Attitude Because Beginning
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Accomplice Am Aware Call
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I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

Actor Artists Because Believe
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Been Could
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Cannot Change Charge Circumstances
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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Born Change Character Fingerprints
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

Hipsterism Codes Social Originality
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Chorus Discord Does Even
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It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

Always Constantly Fountain Hard
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Always Bourgeois Content Manifest
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

Everyone Community Friendship Accountability
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Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.
Marriage Broken People
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

Abroad Also Born Carried
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Another Being Deeply Even
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Been Century Favor Freedom
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