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The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
Come Day Position Powerful
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The secret is not for you to venture into business because you think people are making money. You need to do your research. You also need to have an understanding of finance.

Secret Venture Business Making money
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

America Bracket Decade Imagine
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

Person Potential Recognize Themselves
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Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

Box Cannot Chalk Defeats
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

Alabama Because Crow Democrats
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Citizens Demand Glorify Hesitant
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Because Could Did Greater
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

About I Write People Want
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Complexity Does Growing Imply
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Act Boundary Feelings Imagination
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Accepts Blacks Bottom Class
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Between In My Opinion Justice Liberty
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Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Accomplished Actually Against Companies
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Actual Any Case Considerable
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art Creation Essentially Finished
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Africa America Ancestors Been
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Acknowledge Being Being Smart Books
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Command Commands Free Indeed
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

Art Beast Brave Flatterer
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Roles Society Soldiers Tendency
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ambition Makes More Need
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Language Man May Most
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Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Good Hat Honor Man
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Fool Himself Master Only
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Beauties Just Life May
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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Careless Commonly Curious Face
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I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.

Between Bridge Girl Laugh
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I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

Cemetery Certainly Family Man
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A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?

Anything Delusion Fails Funny
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

Case Congress Impression Know
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I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Army Basketball Because Being
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We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

Brings Children Country Elderly
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

Agents Cause Chemical Damage
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The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

Contain Ensure Federal Financial
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I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

Being Control Decision Every
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Approach Child Difference Going
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Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Become Children Family Grown
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.

Clear Focused Get Going
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When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

Breaking Enforcement Illegal Immigrant
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

Between Dealing Distinct Easily
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Advice Arm Children General
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Angels Brother Cause Death
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Acting After Bear Boarding
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

Boring Character Male Pretty
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

Accent Beginning Being Black
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Book Each Felt Like
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