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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.

Act Belief Convinced Courage
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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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 will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Christmas Heart Honor Keep
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Aims Heart Always Devoted
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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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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Attached Close Conceal Heart
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Creature Fact Human Mystery
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Appetites Conquered Human Nature
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

China Cows Entirely Farm
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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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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Always Been Cheap Despair
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There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn't feel it was safe enough for myself.

Ask Enough Feel Flight
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My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Above Apparently Challenges Huge
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When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn't have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else's.

Anyone Ask Bit Curriculum
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My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Again Always Attitude Back
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Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Associate Happy How How Much
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Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

Am Assume Because Brought
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I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

Cracks Keep Life People
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I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Brunt Humor Often Own
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I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Attention Audience Begin Important
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I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.
Breath Last Lungs Out
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Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Been Business Career Conventional
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As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.

Mother Name Night Praying
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One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

Enough Goals Great Heart
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My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Birds Breeding Business Christmas
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From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Better Business Day Entrepreneur
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Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

About Children Consider Fame
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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Enemy Greatest Human Salvation
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I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Distinguishing Fashionable Glory God
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I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Anthem Ascend Bass Deep
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If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Arouse Love Christ Died
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Boy Dad Father He
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My beloved daughters, don't marry a man who has no job.

Beloved Job Marry Daughters
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Before God gave Eve to Adam, He gave him a job. He said this is the garden, keep it! Those who come to you and say 'sister, thou saith the Lord, you are going to be the star in my firmament' ask them 'what is you job'?

Star Job Garden Keep
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My dream is to save women from nature.

Dream Nature Save Women
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Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

Beautiful Happier Instincts Intention
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Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

Dresses Everything Expressed Finally
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I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

Buildings Considered Constructed Craftsman
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Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

Boyfriend Career Pretty Single
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Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

America Business Job Parent
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

Base Build Complexity Goal
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

Actually Depth Favorite Kind
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It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

Grown Interact Learned Lives
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
Album Always Before Graduated
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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Fields Hills Live Love
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I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Alone Always Better Impressions
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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

Always Corner Living Nature
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