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If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.
Front Gifted Had Instead
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For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

After Awful Because Candy
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Split seconds of actions that change lives forever

Split Seconds Actions Change life
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

Election Politicians Actors Power
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Beginning Bodies Desire Driven
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Between Big Books Components
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

About Binary Book Character
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I don’t care how beautiful/handsome you look, if your personality sucks, you are damn right UGLY.

Personality Beautiful Handsome Ugly
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At this point, love is all we need. No judging, No hatred, No religious division, No politicking, no racial discrimination. Just Love for Humankind.

Love No judging No hatred Division
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Around Does Fertilizer Good
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Conscience More Politics Than
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Being Little Possibility Without
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You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.

Fight Film Hey Music
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Aversion Begin Little Matrimony
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Liked Lover Modesty More
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I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive.

Alive Believe Bring Broadway
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Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

Amongst Courage Determination Focus
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Imagination creates reality.

Creates Imagination Reality
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In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.

Any Centers Family Hereditary
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I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Always Become Being Did
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I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

Business California Ever Financial
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Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Stock market Grow out Solid basis Misconception
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We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

Speak Triumph Capitalism World
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Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

Globalization World Interdependent International politics
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The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

Concept General equilibrium Relevance Real world
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I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect

Contend Financial market Never reflect
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

Awareness Past Establishment Personality
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The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man’s basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act – and if necessary, to suffer and die – for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

Preservation Peace Freedom Right
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I've been fortunate enough to experience financial success on a large scale through both my music career and my many business ventures. With this type of financial success comes financial responsibility.

Been Both Business Career
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

Built Copied Hearts Men
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Enlightened leadership Spiritual Religious dogma
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A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being

Grateful heart Greatness Expression Humility
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Spirituality is not theology or ideology. It is simple a way of life, pure and original as was given by the most high.
Spirituality Theology Ideology Way
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Character Clue Complexion Fact
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Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Ability Anything Key Lies
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Attract Capacity Circumstances Either
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

After Attributed Been Essentially
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Aid Being Better Better World
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We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Arms Before Bow Considerations
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In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts.

Chemical Differs Elements Less
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The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

Accept Burden Buy Front
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The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone’s responsibility. And it must be everyone’s concern.

Impact Armed conflict Children Concern
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Taking charge of my life at the age of 12 gave me a go-getter attitude in life, which was further reinforced by the school’s culture that instilled the value of responsibility.

Taking charge Life Go getter Attitude
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Acts Armed Back Good
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Civilization Me Politeness Sine
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Basic Communist Conservative Controlled
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so

Almost Any Creed Cult
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The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

About Advantage Away Certain
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Creation Heart Lies Love
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Environment Even Fantastic Feeling
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