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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

Alive Always Ask Did
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Choose your friends based on your destiny. Do not associate yourself with just anybody. You have to be pragmatic about who you allow into your life. You have a destination, the company you keep will determine how and if you will get there

Friends Destiny Associate Life
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It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.
Bad Great Parent Relief
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Life is not as bad as you think, but as bad as you permit it.
Life Bad Think Permit
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Affirmation Every Must Question
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I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Before Here Humble People
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Face Face Reality Reality Wish
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Physical presence is important, but relatively today, it is not as important as the digital space.
Physical presence Important Digital space
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Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.

Sex Good Fresh Sweet corn
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It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

Important Survival Children Own experiences
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Talent Human being Character
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You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

Cooking Got Had Know
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But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

Dinner Enjoy Hour I Think
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Your journey might be different from mine but still, do not aspire to be like me but better than me. Times have been bad, rough and difficult but note this; nothing happens overnight so do not be in a hurry.

Journey Mine Better than Overnight
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You don’t know what I had to fight, how long it took for me to get here, where I came from and so do not aspire to be like me, be better than me.

Better than Fight How long Aspire
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I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
Any Ashamed Country IThink
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Enlightened leadership Spiritual Religious dogma
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We see things as we are, not as they are.

See Things We see They
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How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

About Changed Devices Experience
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Different Universe Asking Bigger
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I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.
Am Bad Good IAm
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We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

About Black Conversation Everywhere
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned.

Statesman Arguments Convincing End
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I believe Frightening Realize
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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Again Back Down Emotions
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I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realize I'm not as young as I thought I was.

Young See pictures Yourself Old man
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If you are not called to serve God in a certain way, you dare not think you are serving Him by doing what He does not ask you to do.

Serve God Certain way Think Ask you
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Our determination is that until the two decrees I have signed today are abrogated, every individual should be preoccupied with the task of national reconstruction, not as ex-politician, but simply as a Nigerian with faith in his country’s destiny.

Determination Decrees Destiny Abrogated
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The new weapon is no longer the Bible and the flag, but destabilization and armaments. Africa should show its awareness of this new danger and see the Angolan situation not as an isolated affair but as part of the greater danger

Weapon Greater danger Armaments The flag
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Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

Dating Get older Trusting Get back
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I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life.

I love My family My kids Just substitute
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The pain, agony and frustration of a lockdown is certainly unbearable especially as palliatives are either not enough or not as quick, but the joy of staying COVID negative far outweighs it. The fight is for all, from each according to his ability, the haves and the have not..

The pain Agony Frustration Lock down
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Have thought My duty Exhibit things They ought
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I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Wanted Life Talking Critics
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
The path Be beautiful Ask where It leads
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We ask for equity based on solidarity, not as a concept of sympathy, but of collective global action, organized around shared vulnerability and common interests directed toward common goals.

We ask Equality Solidarity Sympathy
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

The importance Doing activist Give back Consider yourself
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A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

Naive man Nothing better A fool Women contrive
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

When You See Wise
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You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

You See Persons Things
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Not ashamed To confess Ignorant Not know
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I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

Love Past Present Ashamed
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God,We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Be ready Allow ourselves Be interrupted By God
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… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

Truest Language Process Living element
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See the victories not as proof of your supremacy, but as opportunities to offer more value to life.

The victories As proof Your supremacy As opportunities
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See the defeats not as personal affronts, but as chances to learn and grow stronger.

The defeats Personal affronts As chances To learn
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I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.

Want history Remember me Black woman Be elected
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Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.

Make progress Each problem Challenging rival Encouraging friend
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The reason for every misunderstanding is that we see the people as we are but not as they are.

Reason Misunderstanding People
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