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“I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.”
Spent Life Trying Education
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By allowing super wealthy corporations and individuals to avoid paying their fair share of tax, tax havens are denying governments' revenue that could and should be spent on schools, healthcare, and other essential services.

Spent Revenue Share Avoid
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
Allowed Democracy Money Only
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

About Been History Life
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Against Head Imagination Lack
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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

All-American Average Career Chunk
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

Amazed Being Kid Kind
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Could Craft Day Developing
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Academia Father Good His
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I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

Being Gotten Know Number
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Did Effort Him Honorable
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Writing Cheer me Soothe Spirit
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

After Bed Day Every
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I have for many years given practically the whole of my income for charitable purposes, except what is spent upon my family. Nearly all my money is invested in businesses in which I believe I can truly say the first thought of the welfare of the work people employed.

Many years Income Charitable purpose
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Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

Great Prison Saved Country
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I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy.

Doing Figure Happy Just
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward

Life Spent Labor Wasted
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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

Album Always Could Cut
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One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

Back Before Doing Film
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I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.

Spent days Answering question Thank me
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

High school Interested History People do
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I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
Spent My time School daydreaming Living
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Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

Money Worth Accomplish Lord's work
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The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.

Actually Amount Exceed Grieving
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If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.
Front Gifted Had Instead
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During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Listening Sabbatical Songs Spent
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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Divorce Even Financially Getting
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

Best BestFriend Enough Friend
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I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

Also Big Big Deal Dated
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

All My Work Care Draw Experience
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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Love Never ending Life's wealth
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Sure striving for doing the impossible means being obsessed, it’s constant persistence. But isn’t this a sign of a life worth living, rather than one spent sitting on the sofa?

Doing Impossible Being obsessed Constant persistence
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I spent a huge part of Saturday mornings as a child dancing and singing to Majek Fashek’s albums played by my dad....records from his turntable. Such beautiful memories...Rest In Power Majek Fashek. No wonder it’s raining...

Spent Huge part Child dancing Singing
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Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

Every hour Manual work Humiliated Degraded
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My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth.

Spent Whole life Fights Telling
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I love this African adage; If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito.

Love Adage Too small Difference
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I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days

Spent Many birthdays Movie set Great days
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A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

Kids spent More time School Always loved
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As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

A child Spent Time The library
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I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Have spent Best years My life Lighter pleasures
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Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Better Have Short life Long
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

Can imagine Death bed With lust Next world
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I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Lifetime spent Hiding one's Erotic truth Cumulative
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We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Have spent Best part Past century Enthusiastically testing
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

Noyhing Invented Infinite reward GoodBook
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Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day.

Having money To spend Well-spent moments Every day
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Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

Luck Has nothing Spent many Countless hours
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Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.

Life Best spent Alleviating pain Assuaging distress
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No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

Person Time Limitation Freedom
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