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One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

Happy Necessary Ingredients Simple tastes
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Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Accept truth Surprises Views
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Tear out Single page Life Book
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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

My body Hands Actions Strongest
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God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

God abandons Courage Shut up
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Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Know Replace Heart Happiness
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Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.

Nature Speak Intelligence Language
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Being Complexities Human Means
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If you want to introduce Jesus to people, you have to look good. If you want to tell people that Christ is a good saviour, the first thing they would look at is your appearance.

Introduce Jesus People Look good
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Whatever is holding you back was put there to teach you patience and to help you learn to earn your keep.

Whatever Holding Patience Earn
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Do not be too quick to cast away your pain, let it run its course, do not take any shortcuts.
Do not Cast away Pain Shortcuts
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It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Difficult Learn Over Regulate
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It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

City Difficult More Rule
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Love is courageous, and hate is contagious.

Love Courageous Hate
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The point is we are borrowing, but we are borrowing sensibly. Seriously, no country develops with its own resources alone especially countries in Africa

Borrowing Sensibly Country Develop
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart…for it is better to be true than to be right.

You do Heart True Right
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Nobody has your interest at heart but you.

Nobody Interest Heart
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I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family.

Never put Family
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Whenever I'm faced with an issue, I deal with it squarely, even if I was going to fail, I try to learn from my mistakes. So if we appreciate our past, then we can understand where we are at presently.

Whenever Faced Issue Fail
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Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

Before slavery Medicine Malaria
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Anyone Bald Confident Diamond
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I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.

Practice Teach Trumpet Play
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We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

Teach Children History Understand
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

American Different Dream Lives
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I always tell my staff, the day you think of going to work and your heart jumps, resign from that job.

My staff Work Heart jumps
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

About Complaining Complaints Instead
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You should care for your staff, ask them questions, find out about their families and if you ask me, I’ll say send them personalized SMS on a daily basis thanking them for all they are doing to grow your business, you’ll be shocked.

Should care Questions Families Business
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Bread Butter Favorite May
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. Lets contribute in our own small ways to build our communities.

Charity Need Cause Contribute
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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

About Could Course Going
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When it’s your day, no one can stop it.
When Day Stop it
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Alive Back Became Childhood
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Close Fully Get Hell
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The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

Community Every Gay Get
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Face I Think Life Proud
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

Believe Learning Peoples pictures
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Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Able Attack Break Buddha
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Exactly Life Looking Mirror
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Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Beautiful Buddhism Faith Says
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It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

Absolutely Anything Commercially Inappropriate
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You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

Confront Destroy Fall Fear
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

About Condition Control Cultivating
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Ghanaians need to start understanding the POWER they have! We gave the POWER to them. Its in our hands! They are supposed to be working for the people and not to be WORSHIPED and hailed!

Ghanaians Power Worshiped Hailed
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I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Age Almost Digital Happy
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Its ok to follow a few trends here and there but dont be that person who always has to follow every trend! If it isn't putting money in your pocket, stop wasting your time.

Trends Follow Money Pocket
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Don't waste your years focusing on others! focus on yourself.....work on yourself.....educate yourself....get creative.....have time for yourself.

Don't waste Focusing Educate yourself Work
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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Every Journal Keep Past
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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Central Contemporary Describe Facts
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

Election Politicians Actors Power
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Treat yourself the way you would treat someone you love.

Treat Yourself Love Someone
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