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If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.
People Pray Darkness Lot
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Above Alone Between Consciousness
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Accomplice Am Aware Call
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

Also Attribute Feelings Guide
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You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

Got Hard Presence Secret
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Alert Awaits Choose Close
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Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

Best Capable Good Good People
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Another Best Contemporary Contemporary Life
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Bliss Doors Follow Only
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Able Adventure Big Big Question
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Again Find Sacred Space
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Blame Doing Fruit Life
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Challenging Come Deeper Find
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Beat Goal Heartbeat Life
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Abyss Down Going Lies
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

About Consciousness Heroic Our
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Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

Able Attainment Deny Flatten
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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Advance Clearness Dawn Difficulties
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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Bring Get Hour Paid
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Chances Design Else Fall
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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Cannot Change Destination Direction
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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Attention Doing Gift Give
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To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Any Ask Could First
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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Cannot Change Charge Circumstances
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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Born Change Character Fingerprints
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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Able Draw Experience Future
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So Lord Lugard's girlfriend named our country Nigeria! See why girlfriends are as powerful as wives in this country?

Girlfriend Powerful Wives Country
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

America Continent Created Does
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

Nature DNA IMAX Redefined
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Always Bourgeois Content Manifest
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Gospel Sinful Flawed Dared
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
God Worshipping Idealized Yourself
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.

Bible Good life Grace Save
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

Change Behavior Worship
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Christianity Experience Pain Deep
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

Calling Created Gift Emerged
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

Basis Christian Assurance Heart
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
Infallible Integrity Jesus Private
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

Abroad Also Born Carried
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Been Century Favor Freedom
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

Around Corner Distinctive Footsteps
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Astonishment Been Centuries Did
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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Afraid That Schools Prove
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Heart Drives Characters Passionate
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Feminism Dated Privileged Daughter
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Cents Dollars Fifty Hollywood
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What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Bed Chanel Course Wear
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In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Conflict War Poverty Women
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
World Better Place Grandchildren
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