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Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance.

Self explanatory Analysis Interpretation
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
Diamond Chunk Coal Under pressure
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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Library Luxury Necessities Life
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common thingsh
Being happy Power Extracting happiness
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Perseverance Obstinacy Comes from Strong will
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Adversity Reason Benefit Sober reflection
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

Person Sense Humor Springs
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Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself Higher standard Never
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Troubles Tools God Better things
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Young love Flame Pretty Hot
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Greatness Being strong Use Strength
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Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

Bubble Correction Created Federal
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Can forgive Forget Another way
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Don’t be discouraged, the future is so bright.

Discourage Future Bright
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ONLY BELIEVE, even when it looks impossible to you, BELIEVE. God can do ANYTHING.

Believe Impossible Anything God
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Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Look Most Movies Us
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Think big, don’t let anyone discourage you from pursuing your dream no matter how far off it may seem.

Think big Discourage Dream No matter
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That dream in you; that great idea, that great vision, the talent buried within you - implement this year. Don’t be afraid to take that leap of faith. Fear hinders your reaching your maximum potential. This year, go for your dream, implement your idea and let that talent manifest in Jesus name

Dream Great vision Talent Afraid
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You can destroy your now and  your future by holding on to the past. The past is what it is, it has passed. Learn from the past and move on

Destroy You can Future The past
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No one pours water in a glass that’s already full. Do you need to receive something this season? If yes, then present yourself before God empty!

No one Water Glass Season
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People don't make changes because things are wonderful.
Because Changes Make People
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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Afterwards Digging Garden Holes
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I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
Cooking Dishes Else I Think
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Because Book Dictionary Else
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When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

Always America Country Culture
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I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

All Day Around Because Bed
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Abandoned Alone Just Like
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Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

About Because Diversion Incredible
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One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

Alive Because Born Breathe
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I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

Charlotte Little Loved People
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

Another Choice Combination English
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

About Age Any Anyone
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The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

Become Distortion Else English
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

Around Carry Certain Certain Point
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Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

Children Even Felt How
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Goes Head I Write Lot
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People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

Angry Because Black Feeling
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Annoying College Come Credentials
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I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

Age Anxiety Any Anything
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I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

Again Anything Because Books
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Come
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When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Absolutely Always Apologize Bullying
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At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

Adored Associate Enormous Everyone
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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Does Essentially Loneliness Lonely
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Days Dignity Find Happens
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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Avoid Better Customs Fear
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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Emotions Human Human Emotions I Love
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

About Army Done Her
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Character Consists Fourth Third
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