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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

About Artist Being Black
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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Always Chance Condition Conscience
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Cause Considered Difference Friend
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Better Educated Man Newspapers
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Authority Bold Every Fearing
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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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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Book Chapter First Honesty
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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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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Approve Because Boldness Even
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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Being Body Happiness Mind
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Begins Cast Conduct Eye
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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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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
About Done Going Talk
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One man with courage is a majority.

Courage Majority Man One-Man
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Consequence Consolidation Corruption Country
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Body Dawn Day Enlighten
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Advantage Always Another Circumstances
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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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All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

Business Important Keep Reputation
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In business, if you realize you've made a bad decision, you change it.

Bad Business Change Decision
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Believe Desire He Know
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Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

Businesses Communities Different Different World
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Bath Glass Good Sleep
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
First God Harmony How
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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Attained Good Happiness Man
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Explanation Faith Necessary Possible
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Addicted Become Cannot Carnal
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I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Atlantic Balloon Boat Brush
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Authority Cause First Intention
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Common Consider Hesitation His
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Actual Bear Done Else
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Demands Disclosure Divine Human
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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

About Barely Billions Declaring
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

Abundant Enjoy God Grace
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Active Defect Individual Likeness
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Better Contemplate Deliver Illuminate
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There's no point in starting a business unless you're going to make a dramatic difference to other people's lives. So if you've got an idea that's gonna make a big difference to other people's lives, then just get on and do it.

Big Big Difference Business Difference
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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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It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

Common Entrepreneur Every Metric
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I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

Able Been Build Business
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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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A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?

All The Difference Anybody Anybody Else Belief
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