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The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive – she is the ultimate outsider.
Mamphela Ramphele
Double jeopardy
Being black
Female
Racist
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I’m doing what I’m doing because I believe in human dignity, equality and freedom. I cannot be free if my fellow human beings are not free.
Mamphela Ramphele
I believe
Human dignity
Equality
Freedom
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What distinguishes human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom is the sense of being connected to others.
Mamphela Ramphele
What distinguished
Human being
Rest
Animal kingdom
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Dupe Olusola
Preparation
No longer
Dream
Map towards
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Every scar, every scratch, every fall is yours. Embrace it, because this is what makes you truly beautiful and unique.
Dupe Olusola
Every scar
Scratch
Embrace it
What makes
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Sometimes God will do certain things to remind you that he alone is God. Just in case you forgot for a minute and became dependent on man. He will mess you up just to set things straight again. Trust and rely only on him.
Dupe Olusola
Sometimes God
Will do
Certain things
Remind you
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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
Alain de Botton
What makes
Book
Good
Reading it
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
Alain de Botton
Being understood
Sign
Much
In one
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
Alain de Botton
Do you
Love me
Weak
Everyone
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
Alain de Botton
Only people
Can think
Normal
Yet know
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
Alain de Botton
Our lives
Most problematic
Receptive
Beautiful things
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behavior is a sign of suffering rather than malice
Alain de Botton
Forgiveness
Requires
Bad behavior
Sign
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Alain de Botton
Significant things
Learn
About people
Annoy
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent
Alain de Botton
Good sex
Keep us
Sane
Happy
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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
Alain de Botton
Love
Incurable disease
Permanent suffering
Happy
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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
Alain de Botton
Maturity
Knowing
You're crazy
Warn others
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
Alain de Botton
We matured
Affection
Achievement
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
Alain de Botton
Notorious inability
Expression emotions
Human beings
Animal
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The sole cause of a man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
Alain de Botton
Sole cause
Man's unhappiness
Know how
Stay quietly
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.
Alain de Botton
Dialogue
Pain
Beautiful things
Acquire
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When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
Alain de Botton
Two people
[art
In love
Makes
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
Alain de Botton
Feel otherwise
Enjoying life
More dangerous
Apprehending
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
Alain de Botton
Materialistic view
Happiness
Age starkly
Revealed
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To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.
Alain de Botton
Appreciate life
Small moments
Helps
Made perfect
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I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
Alan Cumming
Have
No regrets
My life
Crazy things
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
Alan Bennett
Book
Device
Ignite
Imagination
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules
Alan Bennett
We started off
Set up
Anarchist community
People
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
Alan Bennett
Hardest things
Boys
Learn
Teacher
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History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.
Alan Bennett
History
Nowadays
Matter
Conviction
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Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.
Alan Bennett
Marriage
Partnership
Good looking
People
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
Alain Badiou
Love
Politics
Great figures
Social engagement
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Alain Badiou
Truth
Subjective development
Universal
New
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No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
No company
Should depend
One person
Smart
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Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
Most government
Pragmatic
Logical
Pockets
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I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.
Al Capone
Have spent
Best years
My life
Lighter pleasures
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I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want,
Al Capone
Businessman
Giving
People
They want
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Divorce has the ability to convert habit into a drama.
Al Alvarez
Divorce
Ability
Convert habit
Drama
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Akira Kurosawa
Man
Genius
Dreaming
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People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better... They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
Akira Kurosawa
People
Have forgotten
Nature
Destroy
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
Akira Kurosawa
The power
Memory
Gives rise
Power
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
Akira Kurosawa
Human beings
Unable
Honest
With themselves
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
Akira Kurosawa
Human beings
Share
Common problems
Understood
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
Akira Kurosawa
The root
Film project
Inner need
Express something
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
Akira Kurosawa
Dream
Are capable
The harder
Sooner
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
Aisha Tyler
Wounds turn
Scars
Make you
Tough
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I'm sure you can imagine it's pretty frustrating to have people talking about your private life who don't know anything about it.
Aisha Tyler
Can imagine
Pretty frustrating
Have people
Your private
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Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody
Aisha Tyler
Marriage
Blood sport
Jousting.disembowelment
Terrible
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Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.
Aisha Tyler
Everyone
Stories
Think about
Silently
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I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it.
Aisha Tyler
Married
My husband
Loved him
Missing
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Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
Aisha Tyler
Marriage
Mystery
Being kind
Selfish
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