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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Company Delicate Finest Hearts
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Creation Single world Fragment Chaos
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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Do believe Power Story Important role
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Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

Hatred Life Worth living Possible
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Our lives are like the wind... or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other... Then fade away

Our lives Wind Like sounds Resonate
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Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.

You Have met Forget them
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

My process Thinking about Stories Time
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It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

One woman Man dreads Marrying
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A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

Man's heart Secret sanctuary Woman
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The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
Hardest task Prove Man Intentions
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To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

Best Best Part Day Dove
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There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

God Nothing Shouting Wrong
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The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Between Catholics Contrast Cultural
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It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

Always America Around Come
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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Man spends Time Wife Criticism
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Two people Divorce Understand
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What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Conscience Mental action Sentimental reaction
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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Waste time Break Man's heart
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Man's desire Duplicate Remarkable pattern
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Folk Folk Music Heard Horse
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I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.
Am Anything I Am More
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Get your bags ladies and gentlemen! Don’t let procrastination stop you.

Your bags Gentlemen Procrastination stop
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Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

More Music Musicians Retire
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There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

Know People Some Some People
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If you know who you are, you won’t let what anyone say to you affect you.

You know Anyone Affect you
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When you have positive energy, everyone wants to be around you.

Positive energy Everyone Around you
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I pray you to reach a certain level of happiness! The one in which you need no validation. Just casually living your life, knowing tomorrow isn’t promised.

Pray Level Happiness Validation
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More people are gravitating towards nationalism and extremism, and this is all because people believe democracy doesn’t work for them.

More people Gravitating towards Nationalism
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Without inclusiveness, social justice and participation in any democracy, peace is an illusion…
Inclusiveness Social justice Participation
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Things look harder than they seem before you start, the middle does get messy, but if you stay on, things eventual workout.

Harder Start Stay on Things
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…if people can understand the concept of democracy, they can influence what is planted in this democracy.

Understand Concept Democracy Influence
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Inequality is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, inequality creates fractures but on the other hand, inequality undermines our ability to progress.

Inequality Sword Create fractures
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Integrity is the hidden dimension to ethics.

Integrity Hidden dimension
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If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.

Continue Right things Exciting Competitive
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Education Heart Achieving Dreams
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The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded has to be created. But you mustn’t create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness…devoid of building a world-class, sustainable black business community.

System Creating opportunities Law excluded
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One has to set high standards, I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Set High standards Happy Mediocre performance
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I have confidence in mining, I see exciting opportunities in it.

Have confidence Mining Opportunities
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

Gone Important Jazz Jazz Musician
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We must design a future that is shaped by women and girls – that realizes their rights and aspirations to a world where equality is a reality.

Must deign Women Realizes Aspirations
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…we need to think collectively about the responsibility of what we do to make sure there is a more equitable world, that everyone is included and that we really think about our footprint in our home.

Think Responsibility Make sure
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Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.

Chorus First Melody Plays
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I think education opened up huge vista and opportunities and networks and the courage to do with those skills what you can.

Education opened Opportunities Network Courage
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The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

First First Time Goose Had
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When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.

All My Life Armstrong Been Began
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Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

Become Born Ear Early
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The only purpose of power is to serve with the courage of one’s conviction that all people in the world have rights that must be respected.

Only purpose Serve Courage Conviction
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Because Belongs Carries Country
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Applications Applied Only Science
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I want to be remembered as someone who touched lives, made a difference and gave back to society.

Remembered Touched Back Society
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