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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Yardstick Quality Excellence Expect
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Hope Person Defeated Does
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Destruction Education Ever Invented
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As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Allow Cheated Christian Duty
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As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Admitted Cause Doubting Even
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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

Arouse Doom Flowing Nation
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Make that call. Send that text. Forgive that person. Tell them you miss them. Let go of that Grudge. Show more kindness . Don't take it for granted because tomorrow isn't promised

Forgive Person Call Send
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains

Business Finally Found Nature
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Appreciated Craving Deepest Human
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Single Individual Theory
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

About Call Consciousness Different
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Act Advantage Better Character
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Eternal Hanging Nothing Task
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Always Ambassador Authors Best
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Both Composition Dialect English
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Book
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Essentially Greatest Poem
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Just Want Music People
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

Adopting Ethiopian Child True
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

People Confusing That About
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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Sports Illustrated Body Wear
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I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Never Wanted Like Models
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Movie Weeks Next Tour
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Interest Type Worried Exactly
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Plumes Islamabad Fire Smoke
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Censorship Amendment Interested First
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I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

Deserve Chosen Longer Want
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She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
Head Felt First Feel
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Anything Choose Form Freedom
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Get Life Maxim People
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Educated Get He Him
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

America Becoming Belong Educated
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The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

Devil Stop Defeat Left
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Every creature reproduces after its kind. A dog gives birth to dogs, a cat gives birth to cats, a cow gives birth to cows, a monkey reproduces monkeys and a human reproduces humans. So when God gives birth, what do you think He’ll reproduce? gods, of course! When God created Man, He created him in His image and after His likeness. That’s why we look like Him; we have two hands the same way He has two hands. We have two legs, one head, one mouth, one nose, two ears and two eyes just like Him.

Creature Every Kind Birth
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The supernatural is the only Biblical factor that lends credibility to Christianity. Minus the supernatural, Christianity will be another heap of frustrated human religion.

Religion Human Heap Minus
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When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.

Race Problem Unless Hatred
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I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.

Sold Show Drips EBay
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Perfected Causing Suffering Humankind
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I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

Climate Geography Planet Use
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We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.

Body Hooked Addicted Painlessness
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One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

People Promote Provide States
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Being at a club that supported me meant a lot.

Being Club Lot Me
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We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

Captain Differently England Get
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When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

Changes Children Grow Grow Up
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Due Had Lincoln Look
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