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I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Stranger Afraid Never World
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Life is weird. You can go from being strangers, to being friends, to being more than friends, to being practically strangers again.

Weird Life Strangers Friends
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Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Money Strange business People Who have
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“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

Signal Control Policy Yeild
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

Gift Perfect Nobody Stranger
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It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

Seem Strange Dare Judge
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If a stranger comes to stay with you, do not forget when you lay aside his weapons that he is hungry.

Come Stay Lay Forget
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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Explore Traveling Jamaica
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.

Smile People Love Home
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
Really Some Songs Strangely
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I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Amazing Anywhere Else Lived
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. In public life I have remained loyal to causes that I have signed on to. Nobody can fairly accuse me of giving my word and going back on my word. I always pray that my loyalty will not be tested.

Concept Strange Remain Loyalty
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Africa Come Future About
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The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Collector Strange Sense Music
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Desire Me Meet Passing
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Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

Hope True Strange Read
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Man Gracious World Citizen
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Bit Contradictory Found Human
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
First Harm Hospital May
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Ability Been Could Done
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It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

Even First First Time Goals
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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Bedfellows Does Make Marriage
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Arena Cause Difficult Distant
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Also Animal Brains Egotistical
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Nothing Often Powerful Strange
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Walking Adult Come Fact
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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Afraid Another Appear Because
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Breath Inadequate Like Lover
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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Always Depended Kindness Strangers
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

Always Even Friend Give
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

About Anymore Because Classes
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

About Close Could Even
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

Act Around Guys Know
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Arises Around Attention Become
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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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People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Boy Correct Desk Glass
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Between Bottom Enmity Indifference
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
Sea Beautiful
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Capacity Greater Our Our Time
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Failure Greater His House
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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

Advisable America Back Bathroom
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Does How Intrude Knock
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Among Death His Honor
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Am I Am I Have Learned Intolerant
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Aim Artist Motion Artificial
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Love Matter Memory More
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I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

Sing Speak Strangers Talking
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We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

Read Hope Strange
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Strange Italy Five hour Africa
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