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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Artificial Backgrounds Conformity Consequences
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Depressing Joy Nearly Pursuing
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Authority Poisons Takes
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

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Also Career Confidence Experience
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

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Did Each Get Hate
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

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Divorce Divorces Easy Get
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

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About Anything Being Faithful
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

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About Competitive Gets Hand
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

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Am Control I Am Know
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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.

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Art Forget Front Gotta
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Accept Best Content Craves
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Black Far Ignorance Infinity
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Absent Even Greatest Horrors
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

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Always Going Love Matter
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

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Combination Feeling Me Soul
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

Based Common Emotions Fundamental
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

Authors Become Competitor Concerning
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

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About Anybody Dating Music
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

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Channel Channels Discovery Good
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

Absolutely Am Bored Come
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

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Challenging Creatively Me Myself
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

Decrease Happiness Human Human Happiness
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

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Anything Biggest Could Promised
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I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

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Any Being Being Real Dollar
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Dramatic Element Great Great Part
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

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Able Being Blessed Career
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

Any Being Bound Change
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

Achieve Always Atmosphere Belongs
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

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Because Daughters Fatherhood Help
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

Action Atmosphere Certain Ever
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

Cosmic Escape Fixed Hence
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

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Any Be Prepared Beast Crazy
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Be Original Being Believe Common
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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.

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Been Call Calling Conscious
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

Able Accomplish Away Christianity
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

Affects Concealed Conflict Discoveries
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

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Conscious Doing Gangsta Just
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

Any Anything Better Cannot
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

Experience Genuine Imagination Often
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

Am Being Beings Conceive
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

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America Could Government Help
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

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African Black Everyone White
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

About Anything Hint Impressive
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Heroic Interruptions Judicious Just
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

Allow Altered Any Been
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Conscience Inner Inner Voice Looking
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Courtroom Evidence Hear Jail
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