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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Came First Found Great
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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

A Good Thing Because Disappointing Disapproval
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In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Any Capacity Eight Enough
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A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Bureaucrat Democrat Holds Office
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Read Die Middle Good
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.

Panics Wear Cat
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Capitalism Success Failure
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

Politician Personality Endowed Charm
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We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

God Lord Blessings Created
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Government Proves Dictatorship Transient
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We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
Government Weakened Responsibility Right
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I believe that the presidential term should be limited
Believe Presidential Term Limited
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Purge yourself of hate. I'm not just a journalist but an African Leader. If that gets you angry, live with that FACT!

Hate African Angry Journalist
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The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.

Security Bodies Institution Work
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Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
Necessary Lonely Prove Right
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My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

Personal Position Society Keep
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Almost all the major viruses that has consumed millions of lives of the people in human history comes from animals; Our relationship and caution in dealings with them will determine our survival, our fate and our future as co inhabitants of this planet.

Viruses Lives Human Animals
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Trust yourself and believe that God will always be there for you.

Trust God Yourself You
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Give everyday a sense of purpose. Make plans the day before, so that you have something to look forward to.

Purpose Plans Forward Look
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I see myself as a new artist again who is hustling. That's my mentality, I don’t walk into a room expecting anyone to know who I am. I'm just here to get a seat at the table

Artist Hustling Mentality Know
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if we remove sex from relationship you will discover that most of we ladies have nothing to offer in relationships, search your conscience, what else do you offer aside from sex

Sex Relationship Ladies Nothing
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Remove money from a relationship and you will discover that over 90% of ladies won’t see a reason to be in a relationship.

Money Relationship Ladies Reason
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Accomplish Being Brought Conviction
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

Mother Premonition Felt Good
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Mother Idea Feeling
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

Consider Luckiest Sense Creativity
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Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Class Great Great Time Had
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Ability Differences Down Fellow
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Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

Boat Choice Choosing Enjoyable
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A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Constantly Could Either Events
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And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.

Being Day Forward Looking
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

About Actually Age Air
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You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Age Live Nothing Right
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Anything Everything Gets Got
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ability Be Humble Became Countries
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

Answers Conclusions Every I Think
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I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Assumed Be Different Because Different
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Advantage Danger Fear Fears
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It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Also Be Strong Course Day
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I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

College Finish Fit Get
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And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Any Course Had Jobs
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I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
Funny I Think Kid Me
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

After Day Easy Every
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Absolutely Air Bar Became
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Being Better Difficulties Explicit
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

About Art Art History Attention
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

End Ever First Ignorance
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
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