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I exist as I am, that is enough

Am Enough Exist
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Another Bad Believe Change
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Another Beforehand Come Enough
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Beauty Departure Independence Rely
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences

Anywhere Art Been Beyond
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Enough Learned Like Those
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Again Age Character Like
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Dismiss Insults Soul Which
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Cause Failure Faith His
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Day Each EachDay Everybody
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Said Several Thousand Universe
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius

About Expressive Freshness Illiterate
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Advance Behind Fools Go
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Great City Greatest Men
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Greatest Hut Man Still
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

AlsoBattles Day Fall Gain
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Beautiful Happen More
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Absorb Country He Him
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Shaft Archer
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Raise Invention Eyes
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Race Perish Power
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Life Burden Finding That
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Faces Charm Soon
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Any Anything Believes Cheap
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Warts All Songs Think
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Contradict One Thing Only Only One Thing
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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 can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Write Another Breakup Record
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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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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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Comedy is what I love doing and I like to make it as real as possible so that people can relate with it.

Relate People Possible Love
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If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

Revolution Dripping Range Televised
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Become Photographer Working Better
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When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Decency Civility Community Compass
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Society Chained Nailed Floor.Weakness
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

Africa Background Cultural Highlight
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Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Become Show People Only
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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

Pushing Punk Sticking Man
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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
Forgivable Easily Some Make
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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Israel Truth Happen Rock
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The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Idea Type Joke Owed
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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

Problem Gender Weight Individual
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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