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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Accuracy Confidence Had Industry
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Citizens Colors Country Dependent
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I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Afford Again Back Better
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

Generation Invent Own Reasons
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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 don't do something I won't enjoy just for the money. I do it for the fun, for the joy of working.

Enjoy Fun Joy Just
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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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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Believes Difficult Necessarily True
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I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.

Hear Lot Nervous People
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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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In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

Ever Feel Get Know
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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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The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

Able Business Changed Control
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We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

Break Dependency Domestic Energy
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Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

Bureaucratic Communities Efforts Finding
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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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Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

According Congress Else Everyone
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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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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Bored Happiness Happy Here
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Caribbean Completion General Good
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

Dark Necessarily Reflection Things
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

Numbers People Poetry Resource
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Contrast Counterfeit Crises Deeply
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Desire End Felt Heard
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Bed Breakfast Dress Eat
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

Along Different Lines Need
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

Chance Give Give Me Learn
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Another Houses Laws Lean
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Ability Cycle Evolving Get
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Creator Equity Governs Humanity
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Case Concerned Every Every Man
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Capital Energy Failure Frequently
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Destroy Involves Necessarily Power
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Appearance Fully Governed Know
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One country, one constitution, one destiny.
Constitution Country Destiny One Country
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Forever Inseparable Liberty Now
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Currency Government Evils Greatest
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Bad Conviction Done Many
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Been Liberty People Regard
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Borne Constitution Country Destiny
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