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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Church Corporation Dead Equally
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

Bear Church Church And State Declare
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Appearance Grateful Mirror Only
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Accepts Against Evil Helps
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Always Form Grateful Matter
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Accurately Becomes Destructive However
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Abstinence Condemns Good Half
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Actor Business Crazy Dead
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Always Anything Architecture Else
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I have to have an attitude of gratitude and not miss opportunities.

Attitude Gratitude Miss Opportunities
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Dealing Difficult Even Existence
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Become Imagination Inspiration Model
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Against Always Life Moment
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Dimension Gratitude Life Moment
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Case Confident Constantly Defense
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

Head Liberation Realize Sees
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Abnormal Any Each Every
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You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

Behind Breathing Camera Job
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Rather Strive Success Value
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Acting Directing Frustrating Heaven
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

About Beauty Beholder Dared
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

Always Bad Bad Mood Diet
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You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

About Celebrate Choice Different
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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Course Exactly Good Life
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I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

Actually Firing Generation Imagined
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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every Literature Man Memory
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Cheaper Hard Hard Work Individual
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I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.

Energy Felt Artist Album
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

African Fear General Know
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Benefits Bequeath Children Conserve
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Pirate radio is like street art.

Art Like Pirate Radio
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I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

Had Know Myself Separate
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Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

Ask Does Give Gratify
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Being Central Dead Enjoy
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Concentrated Form Thinking Writing
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Concentrate Essential Important Most
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Being Evil Far Good
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Being Come Every Faith
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Liberate Mind With Music
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Warhol Most Impactful Artist
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

Bunch Crying Executives Front
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I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

Will Go Down As
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Ambiguity Inability Neurosis Tolerate
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Another Civilized Civilized Society Disintegration
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