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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Cat Love Moment Quiet
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I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.

Sure Smarter Always Hire
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Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive.

Achieved Productive Bed You
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Another Brave Communication Electric
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Activities Business Concerned Far
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Concentrate Determination Diligence Done
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Blessings Reflect Past Every
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Business First Men Other
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Joy Meeting Pain Parting
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Beauties Changes Easy Every
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Arrangement Attire Great Seldom
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Brother Call Endurance Learn
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Emergency Life Safe Simple
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Fan Flame Friendship Pass
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Answered Home Magician Name
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Coat Dignity Holiness Imagine
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great Melancholy Men Poor
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Ability Any Awesome Beings
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Beliefs Events Lives Mean
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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Attach Become Environment Events
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There's no abiding success without commitment.

Abide Commitment Success Without
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It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Decision Destiny Moments Shaped
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We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Age Entertainment Information Information Age
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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Call Luck Meeting Offspring
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I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Anime Before Comics Even
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For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

About Artist Automatically Because
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I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.
Could Create Me Needed
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Basically Breaking Breaking Up Come
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Arrangement Benevolent Friendship Greater
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Bad Bad Government General Government
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Among Certain Created Creator
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Ever Free Government No-One
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Armed Best Free Mean
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Decide Government Hesitate Latter
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Alone Error Government Itself
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Blood From Time To Time Liberty Must
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Am America Become Book
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Entirely Inefficient Instead Instrument
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I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Before End Financial Financial Resources
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Achieving Attitude Earth Goal
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Gain Government Ground Liberty
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To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

About Being Business Essentials
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Despotism Force Immediate Parent
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Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

Focusing Get Lot Most
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I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

Been Close Come Family
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If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

Appointment Business Date Decades
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