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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Always Ambassador Authors Best
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I accept reality and dare not question it.

Accept Dare Question Realiy
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

About Another Being Currents
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Afraid Am Back Better
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Least Mankind Object Say
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Been Before Cannot Did
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Book Drift Everything Nothing
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Life Endure Personal
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Conqueror Ever Exterior Life
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Hope Good
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Death Nothing Happen
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Behold Give Lectures Little
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Another Done Last Returns
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Desire Me Meet Passing
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Beautiful Happen More
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Race Perish Power
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Any Clear Fully Grasp
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Feels Force Full He
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

Adopting Ethiopian Child True
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Write Another Breakup Record
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody’s appendage? she prayed desperately.

Create Full Being Woman
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If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

Revolution Dripping Range Televised
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Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

Condemn Guilty Being Lovely
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Status Basically Wasting Financing
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Good Working Writer Very
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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Ride Horse Difficult Public
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Feminist Liberation Toward Woman
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

Instrospective Weird Harmful Probably
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Interest Type Worried Exactly
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Culture does not make people. People make culture.
Culture People Make Not
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Passport Travel Americans Lot
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Censorship Amendment Interested First
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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

Ireland Interview Kathy Boring
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Actors Parking Garage Highway
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Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.

Teach Criticize Problem Have
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not “if only.” Not “as long as.” I matter equally. Full stop.

Matter Equally Stop Premise
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Painting Racist Black President
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Alone Cannot Like Lonely
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Always Cannot Control Goes
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Accurate Believe MPeople Put
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Acting Day Future Gone
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The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina.

Cooking Come Knowledge Not
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Abundance Acquire Something Tune
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Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.

Teach Idea Role Gender
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Anger Nothing Provided Use
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