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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

American Ample Constitution Enduring
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The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Communicate Connect Efficiently Facebook
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

Anymore Wish Kind Miss
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I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

Children Generation Gratifying Kids
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Beat Drops Head Kiss
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I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
Basis Down Good Mainly
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Believe Built Connected Everyone
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The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Any Biggest Changing Fail
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

America Been Concerned Depicting
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Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

Big Figuring Focus Next
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

Advanced American Among Art
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People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Comfortable Different Evolved Gotten
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

American Among Artist Be Different
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When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Ends Everyone Give Giving
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

Accepts Am Any Art
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

America Between Early Jewish
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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Africa Dying Front House
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Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

Heard Internet Million Networks
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

About Books Children Great
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Artist Beauty Interpret Mission
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Get Go Like Somewhere
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Joy Never Only Sorrow
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I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

About Along Always Feel
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Another Becomes Bit Exercises
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Between Connection Differentiate Educators
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Cruel Expected Gentleness Only
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Expectations Idealize Live Never
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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

About Always Arms Close
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Brood Forever Get Living
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Apathy Damn Feeling Giving
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Also Anymore Around Behave
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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Become Being Force Forces
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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Choose Enslavement Entails Free
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Difficult Difficult Thing Easiest Easiest Thing
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
I Can Ignorance Only Teach
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Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

Always Creates Destroys Lies
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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Each Grow No-One Other
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I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

Am Enjoying Enjoying Life Happens
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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Afraid Another Appear Because
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When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

Eat Going Good Good Meal
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Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.
Cook Food Fun How
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I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

All My Life Been Intense Knowledge
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The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

Action Begin Death Dying
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The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

Best Books Children Come
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I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Anybody Books Bought Bread
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Always Career Ever Feel
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Forsake Forsaken Him Man
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Enough High Literature Our
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Business Consists Crowds Today
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