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What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

Religion Media Portrays Weaponize
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

Candle Roof Light Gospel
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Down Liberty Peace Defense
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I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

People Tools Help Guide
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I didn't feel like I was putting anything good into the world, even though it was funny. I wanted to do something more positive that would have an impact. So even when I'm doing naked push-ups or whatever, it's astounding to see how people respond to it.

Impact People Naked Astounding
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Better Trust Dark Sunshine
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Over Career Unlike Life
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

Hard Restrict Enjoy Work
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

Videos Childhood Great Family
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

Taste Key Done Good
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I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you,

Ready Good Because Myself
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change Keep Intact Root
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When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.

School Language Friend Start
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way

Choose Human Own Attitude
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Every idea that comes to mind I execute, or I look for outlets to put out ideas.

Idea Come Mind Look
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One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Promise Fulfill Fool Understand
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Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Either Grow Keep Opportunity
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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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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Tell Teach Explain Great
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love Eye Mind Blind
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You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Find Will Stop Never
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When the results are good, everything seems prettier; when things go bad, it seems like all conflicts, personal disputes, and problems arise.

Result Good Seem Arise
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You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Pressure Team Attack Point
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Worth Kind Force Break
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Model Fashion Adveance Good
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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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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.

Married Early Peers School
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

Control Global Problem Giant
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No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

Man Womb Mother Denies
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Believe Learning Best Process
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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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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Christianity Valuable Thing Whole
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If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

People Draw Agree Realize
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My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice.

Whether Good View Point
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If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Today Courage Wisdom. Suffer
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Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

Right Good Wise People
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

School Teach Children Basic Skills
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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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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

London North America Half
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I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.
Good Work Parents Influence
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Language Prose Cinema Movie
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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May books spread the world over!

May Books Spread World
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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 choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Lazy Person Hard Job
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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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I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.

Strong Black Narrative Educate
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In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.

Smartest People World Mistakes
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