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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

Among Body Century Crowd
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Accusing Becomes Capital Capital Punishment
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

Afternoon Back Big Came
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Against Fallen Me More
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

Favor Forgotten Hot Just
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

Figure Happened Looked Me
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

Me Mom Nice Saint
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

Classes Cool Dance Dance Classes
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

Always Am Away Back
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
Call Good Just People
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Basketball Boat Current Excel
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

Creating Down Hardly Lead
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Day-To-Day Evidence Hear Know
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Audience Easy Exists Forget
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

Air Apps Download Everything
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit

Laughter Joy Mockery Opportunities
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When you are describing, a shape, a sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, with a sort of mental squint.

Shape Sound Tint Mental
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“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

Wise Fish Anywhere Porpoise
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“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”

Saves Soul Universe
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Boulder Bush Deep Dig
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We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.”
Live Lives Christ Coming
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I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Always Wished For This
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Am Beasts Become Bread
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

Appears Bishop Catholic Catholic Church
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You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

Apostles Bishop Christ Commandment
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I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

Want Solidify An Artist
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I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Was Poor White Trash
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There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Christ Death First Flesh
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They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.

Cannot Even Faith Flesh
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
Been Number People Shocked
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

About Batting Get Give
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

Aware Because Broadcast Corny
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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Think My Album Opened
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

Actually Closer Conversations Each
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

Auditorium Because Big Front
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

Dream Generally Hate Movies
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Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Ultimately Who Choose Be
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My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

Baltimore Boy DJ Era
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If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

People Take Anything From
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

Crowd Day Day-To-Day Happens
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
Bob Cork Down Pushed
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I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.

Because Call Crowd Making
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Shake Hands Clenched Fist
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say
Classics Book Finished Saying
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Human Race Defined Tracing
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Better Error Fact Good
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

Beat Bed Dry Hang
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Build a support network with a few other trusted entrepreneurs to share war and success stories with, otherwise, it becomes a very lonely journey.

Network Entrepreneurs Success Build
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Small is not beautiful in business. Build businesses that scale. Deliberately establish business models that scale.

Business Small Build Models
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