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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Ago Long Time Shade
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

Spend People Impress Like
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Raise Voice Afraid Truth
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

Among Mind Mortal Body
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I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Hide Write Climb Create
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It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.

Government Interest Nation Process
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Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Idea Done Young People
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

Blame Fair Enough Alone
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Clever White Religion Amused
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
World Mask Dancing Stand
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Era Live Grow Virtue
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Work Profit Hard Use
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Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Dre Heros Music Industry
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No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.

Struggle Trouble Knows Hard
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There is no one ugly, deep, dark, powerful or evil enough to stop God from loving you. Nothing anyone can ever do to you can sever your connection to God. Nothing you could ever do can dam the unstoppable love of God for you. His love for you is undeniable, unrelenting and unconditional. You may ignore God, ridicule Him and reject Him but His love for you will remain constant and unchanging.

God Loving Ugly Deep
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If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

Tax Old Banger Hell
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

Anyone Driving London Term
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The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

Ecologist Lost Money Launched Edition
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You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

Want Curb Raise Street
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There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

Mother People Random Time
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Measure Quantify Human Pain
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Motives Boast Enjoy Book
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Software Microsoft Successful Forward
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

Confusing Money Period Ability
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Symptom Approach Nervous Belief
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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

People Capitalism PC Microsoft
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It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Catch Easy Fall Love
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Afraid Truth Toughness Play
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I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Money Problem Rich Reinvest
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate Quality Reputation Better
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Book Dance Mind Every
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Describe Movie Second Image
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

Recipe One Unhappiness Expectations
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Dream Judged Children Nation
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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Forgive Love Capacity Maintain
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own oneness with God also, so he's a precursor.

God Jesus Oneness Precursor. Realized
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Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Elegance Wearing Forgetting What
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If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Sense Humor Trouble One
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I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it’s because I’m as old as I am! But it’s just polite.

Touch Fast Chivalry Sound
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
Seclude Alone Very
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Best Friend Brings Me
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I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.

Regret None Consider Myself
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I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.
Day Famous Myself One Day
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I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.

Arrogant Course Couture Dignity
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My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

Alone Arrange Break Chapel
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Beauty Delight Butterfly Admit
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