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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Community Wounded People Broken
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Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

Ministers Practicing Lonely Many
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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

Masterpiece Constant Motion Improve
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Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Solitude Grows Community Intimacy
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Create Identity Dominate Strong
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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Mistake Necessary Worthwhile Achievement
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Things Own Angle Point
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.

Unique Style Black Braid
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Moving Success Itself Together
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Business Money Nothing Makes
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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Wages Money Customer Handle
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Means Right When Looking
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The females don’t respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don’t think, I’m gonna get this money on my own, they think, I’m gonna get money from this guy.

Female Respect Materialistically Guy
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Learning Greatest Mind Keep
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Looking Men Capacity Done
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A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Never Product Saturated Quickly
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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Bothers Making Time Better
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There’s no way I can represent for everyone. I can’t represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It’s important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can’t take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

Women People Celebrity Pressure
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Money Spent Men Mere
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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Lowest Possible Highest Wages
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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

Serious Joker Person Anyone
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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

People Crazy Change World
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Someone Time Limited Living
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Grieves Marching Onward Setbacks
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Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Speculation Making Instead Services
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Great Surprise Afraid Makes
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Man World Reserve Experience
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Morning Revolution System Believe
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Discover Definitely Possible Enough
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Money Betterment Life Capital
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We should think twice before washing our dirty linen before the world. It doesn’t just reduce our opponents. It also reduces us to the world.

World Reduce Dirty Twice
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So sad that in Nigeria, very few want to participate in revenue generation yet everyone wants to participate in revenue allocation.

Sad Few Revenue Everyone
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Nigeria needs politicians for whom politics is a vocation not an occupation, who make money from their businesses not the public treasury.

Public Politics Vocation Money
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Real reading is a lonely activity.

Real Reading Lonely Activity
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Hopeless Romantic Love Time
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Couple Seem Really Records
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Smoke Married Work Drink
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Yourself Stone Friends Parents
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Rich Bed Wonderful Something
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Lonely Boring Own Crowed
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I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

Own Need Alone Left
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Learn continually. There’s always “one more thing” to learn.
Learn Continually More Thing
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Actor Movies Seriously Set
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Money Love Enough Losing
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Focus Simplicity Complex Worth
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.2

Belongs .Own Mine Feeling
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Work Hate Love Someone
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