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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.

Nas
Been Call Calling Conscious
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

Any Anything Better Cannot
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

Experience Genuine Imagination Often
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

Nas
America Could Government Help
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

About Anything Hint Impressive
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Above Complex Else Emotion
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We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
Bearable Could Everything Just
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Another Better Better Time Die
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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Began Comedy Did Feel
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Always Anyone Anything Publish
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Been Book Contract First
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Always Before Brighter Just
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Adventures Ashes Be True Dust
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Build Dance Draw Else
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Articles By The Time Candidates Day
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Able Almost Any Conclusion
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I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.
Bad Book Children Such A Thing
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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Any Elements Every God
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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Expensive Missed More Nothing
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When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

Anyone Important Interesting Nothing
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

About Be Happy Comfort Constantly
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
Doing Enjoy Little Little Things
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Conventional Doctrine True Neptune
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Fact Important Attitude Determines
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I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Beautiful Broken Each Everyone
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If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Put off Sure Done Never
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I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

Hate Life More Reason
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Believe Success Work Pray
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Obstacle Stand Up Strength
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Unfortunately Regretted Fact Temper
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See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Any Detour Experience New
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

About Always Learn Relationship
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Came Everything Felt Glory
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Could Death Had If I Could
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Busyness is not the same thing as business. You don't want to be busy. You want to be in business. Busyness delivers activity. Business delivers results.

Busyness Business Busy Results
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Authenticity Courage Find Lives
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Age Because Circumstances Life
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

About Anything Change Control
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Ability Everything Gift Greatest
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Principle Psychological Product History
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But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Being Camp First Out
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Share Part Life People
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Decide First FirstStep Getting
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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Come Happens Itself Make
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In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

Truly Equal Laws Fired
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We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
Believe Learn
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Dirty Face Fall Flat
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The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

Problem Symptom Deeper Never
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I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

Comedy Funny Good Humor
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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

Taste Swallow Fits
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