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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Identify Many People Problems
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Also Animals Appear Appearance
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There's only a certain amount of times in my life where I'm going to get to experience every single person directing their energy and focus on you, screaming at you.

Amount Certain Directing Energy
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Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

Authors Brutality Decay Destruction
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?

Africa African Angelina Jolie Attention
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Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn't end.

Causes End Kidnapped Kidnapping
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Derives Life Own Painter
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

About Around Close Hobbies
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Blazing Came Chimney Continue
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Arises Awareness Head Identified
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

About Before Crime Current
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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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If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Assimilate Because Children Different
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

Always Any Around Doubts
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Anything Became Did Die
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
I Man Nice Sexy Think
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

About Again Almost Always
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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Children Everybody Just Marriage
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I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

Based Capability Honesty Judge
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The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

Arab Because Billions Dollars
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I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

Afford Care Closing Country
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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Better Daily Daily Lives Finer
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I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.

Pretty Honest About Lot
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I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

Love Friends Sometimes Even
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I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Life Myself Really Run
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Back Cannot Children Responsible
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I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

Argument Boy Girl Going
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I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

Better Everybody Good I Think
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My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Belly God Land Live
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Artist Distinguishes First Great
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

About Been Difficulty Examining
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Armed Combat Decide Engage
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Accord Apply Death Directly
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Arrangements Largely Maintaining Make
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Alone Concept Doom Invented
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You have been praying for your leaders and their families, it's time you pray for yourself and your family; you too deserve to live.

Praying Leaders Families Pray
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Pretty Calculating Take Stuff
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Children Feel Intensely Needs
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Becomes Humble Love Loves
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Away Complain Defend Her
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Accounts Afraid Allowed Asked
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It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Books Communication Exciting Fact
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Another Back Emotional Giving
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

Comments Everyone Get How
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Accepted Family Female Friends
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