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So,one day a president will appoint his grandmother to an office with reference to the mockery of the Supreme Court ruling.
Haruna Iddrisu
President
Grandmother
Office
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
Jackson Browne
Any
Anyway
Because
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
Jackson Browne
Cool
Dad
Everybody
Guitar
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
Jackson Browne
Generation
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My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.
Jackson Browne
Age
Date
Girl
My Own
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne
About
Baseball
Baseball Players
Bring
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Stay focused on the present and don’t worry about past or future. Do not let negative things from the past effect your present-day happiness. Whatever occurred in the past cannot be altered and you should let it go and move on.
Haruna Iddrisu
Stay focused
Worry
Future
Negative things
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Segun Awosanya (Segalink)
Fool you
Never
Fool me
Hunt
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One of the disadvantages of being young is that most of the tragedy you’ll face still lies ahead in your future We need to prepare ourselves and those around us to embrace these challenges and overcome them Only then, will we be ready to change the world
Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph
Disadvantages
Tragedy
Face
Future
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dead
Finds
Language
Prepared
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Necessary
Only
Perhaps
Politics
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Enemy
Friends
Suppressed
Truth
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Affect
Difficulty
Him
Literature
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Alive
Amen
Humbly
Instead
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Ruth Negga
Accents
Different
Grew
Lot
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Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.
Robbie Williams
About
AllDay
Day
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry Adams
Power
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Tragic
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I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.
Ruth Negga
Away
May
People
Quiet
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Ron Paul
Arms
Better
BetterWay
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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul
Bankruptcy
Bringing
Constitutional
Economic
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Ron Paul
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Diseases
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A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
Ron Paul
Bank
Capitalism
Central
CentralBank
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock
Artist
Expressing
Feelings
His
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Jackson Pollock
Artist
Energy
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
Jackson Pollock
Bound
Emerge
Figures
Little
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
Jackson Pollock
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
Jacques Chirac
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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
Jacques Chirac
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Down
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Jacques Derrida
Actually
Only
Pretend
Pretended
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Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
Jacques Derrida
Decide
Gaze
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Look
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.
Jamaica Kincaid
Became
Because
Child
Everyone
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
Robertson Davies
Any
Anyone
Books
Ever
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
Comprehend
Eye
Mind
Only
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
Robertson Davies
Banker
Between
Canada
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
Robertson Davies
Achievements
Been
Before
Century
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I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul
Absolutely
Am
American
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In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Ron Paul
Become
Clear
Everyone
Greater
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
An anarchist
Politics
Impressionist
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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Ron Paul
Aggressive
American
AmericanTradition
Another
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Henry James
Reason
Existence
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
Man
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James
Life
Predicament
Death
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Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance.
Henry Kissinger
Self explanatory
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Interpretation
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Henry Kissinger
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Chunk
Coal
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher
Young love
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Hot
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No one pours water in a glass that’s already full. Do you need to receive something this season? If yes, then present yourself before God empty!
Mary Bushiri
No one
Water
Glass
Season
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
Jamaica Kincaid
Appreciate
Garden
Live
Me
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
Jamaica Kincaid
Abandoned
Alone
Just
Like
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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
James A. Michener
Almost
America
China
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I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.
James A. Michener
Along
Attended
Attitudes
Came
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