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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That’s not life.

Trouble School Answer Exam
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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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That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

School Write Flunked Correct
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Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

Wonderful Humor Straight Heart
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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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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Foolish Wicked Profane Practice
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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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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Political True Using Precious
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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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Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.

Interpret Language Heart Hard
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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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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Acceptance Looks Passive State
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Thinking Wonderful Applied However
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No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

Dream Big Great Future
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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

Value Woman Waist Number
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his life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.

Perfectly Attribute Causes Pain
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Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

Animal Moody Better Human
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People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board.

Connect People Great Friend
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Minute Love Blind Story
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A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

Lady Look Compliment Eye
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Good clothing is a passport to happiness.
Happiness Good Passport Clothing
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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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When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon!

Ask Could Done Five
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Fire Loving Strong Human
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If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible!

African Body Colour Good
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I'm constantly looking for perfection.

Constantly Looking Perfection
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

Busy Complete Down Ever
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
Anything Better Feel Good
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Love Someone Look Clothes
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In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.

Had Middle Middle School School
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You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.
Bring Hood Out Seen
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I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Bad Bad Things Good Good People
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I don't think nobody should compare me to anyone, 'cause, at the end of the day, you've got a 'Pac, you've got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne - there's only one Jeezy, man. Ain't nobody walked in these shoes but me.

Anyone Cause Compare Day
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I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think it should be anything fancy, nothing crazy. As long as you're spending time with that person that's special, I think that's a great Valentine's Day.

Anything Crazy Day Fancy
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I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

Day Get Hours Just
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We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.

Educated Won Poorly Love
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When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist.

Artist Fall Work Die
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Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

Big Energy Get Good
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
Good Life Make Only
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

About Also Become First
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Been Book Day Got
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

Brag Computer Fast Favourite
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the law.

Good Act Law Responsibly
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Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Book Careful Full Get
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

Arrive Based Book City
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

Always Artwork Back Believed
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

Always Been Changes Feeling
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Anymore Crowded Goes Nobody
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Men Server Walking Teacher
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