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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Any Church End EndResult
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

About Blunder Dull Fantasy
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Around Before Boy Dog
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In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

Appearance Bathroom Children Curiosity
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To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.

Actor Behind Ends Far
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To sit on the front steps — whether it’s a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color

Sit Front steps Small town Concrete stoop
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Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.

The maiden Climbed Branches
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Under conditions Tyranny Act Think
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Against Biggest Biting Committed
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Power Violence Absolutely Absent
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Activists Always Building Committed
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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

Actions Finish Honor Kennedy
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If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Ability Tell right Think Every sane
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Entitled Your opinion Informed opinion Ignorant
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I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

Anybody Believes Either Ignorant
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Ignorance Innocence Sin
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

Banning Course Intolerant Never
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Natural selection is anything but random.

Anything Natural Random Selection
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You cannot transform the society of the people if the people are not part of the change.

Transform Society People Part
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

Accept Far Grander Imagine
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Artist Confidence Consolation Doubt
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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Another Conveyed Evil Literal
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I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Artificial Could Criticism Dislike
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Proud Yourself Insulted Stranger
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Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Arrangement Every Feet Filled
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Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Strange Brings Past things Back
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike.
All ranks Life Human heart Beautiful things
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Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

Anyone Smart phone Potential eyewitness
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Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Art Power Transform Illuminate
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Theater Temple Religion Faith
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Sometimes you have to hold these ignorant people by the arm and force-feed them with knowledge…… Sometimes.

Sometime Hold Ignorant People
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…Today, I can see in your midst stars who would change the world, stars who would reshape our country, stars who would further rebrand the image of our dear country, Nigeria. Stay positive, work hard, and pray hard.

Can see Stars Change World
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Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single!
About How Long Me
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Having trees and a track to run on have become more important to me than living near cool restaurants.

Become Cool Having Important
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Bad Bad One Cause Good
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Add Alas Contentment Grandeur
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Actions Appearance Case Compliment
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Fiction Make Sense Stranger
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Beyond Condition Constitution Covenant
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Asking Barely Child He
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I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

Actually Boy Coming Ed Sheeran
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Dignity is not granted, we have to claim it.

Dignity Granted Claim it
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Dancing Moving Most beautiful Arts
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It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

Brand Important Me Personality
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A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.

Always Connects Cross Daughter
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We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

Childbirth Every Guarantee Health
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Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.

Babies Care Creative Dedication
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There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.

Something Sea Clear Blue
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With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

Anyway Best Everything Going
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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Waste time Break Man's heart
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