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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive.

Achieved Productive Bed You
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Between Constructed Construction Created
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Attached Close Conceal Heart
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Joy Meeting Pain Parting
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Answer Baby Born Complete
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Emergency Life Safe Simple
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Brings Children Existence Injustice
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Better Done Ever Far
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Bleeds Dangerous Good Inwardly
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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Failure Only Results Such
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I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.
Could Create Me Needed
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

About Artist Being Black
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Better Educated Man Newspapers
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Always Handle Hold Smooth
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Believes Error He Ignorance
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Achieving Attitude Earth Goal
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Gain Government Ground Liberty
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Advantage Always Another Circumstances
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Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

Focusing Get Lot Most
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Believe Desire He Know
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Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

Businesses Communities Different Different World
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Earth Friendship More Nothing
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I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Atlantic Balloon Boat Brush
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Authority Cause First Intention
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Difficult Everything More Not
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith Hand Hope Seen
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Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Any Call Else Fun
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From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Age Allowing Businesses Creatively
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An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company.

Average Company Details Exceptional
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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
Attention Between Detail Difference
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Average Person Fearful Group
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When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Around Budget Church Media
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When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

Believe Drive Dump Giving
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I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

Involved Love Preach Mainly
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I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Authenticity Being Simply Know
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The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

God Knows Need Persuade
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It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Exciting Friendship God Grows
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Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

Life Lights Love Middle
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When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

Artist Calling Casual Choice
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One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

People Someone Things Worst
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Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

Delightful Important Material Material Things
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When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Across Around Chance Come
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No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Knows Listening Wish Newspapers
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Always Basically Engine Everything
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I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Apart Believe Certain Determination
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When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Conversion Deserve Done Gratitude
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Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Achievements Cloud Disappear Fast
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