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He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Placed Me Seat Keep
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Also Direct Fame Fancy
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Cannot Consequently Determined He
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I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Being BeingNice Changed Easier
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Am Band Ben Big
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Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.

After Carefully Craft Enough
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Adventure Comfort Zone Good
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Hopeful To Embrace One
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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

Passion Oxygen Chemistry Book
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“The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.”

Experience Fellow Danger Training
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“We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realize this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less”
Better Realize Prepared Settle
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“Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.”

Someday Pick book Bible Shame
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One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.”

Church Alone Keep True
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“You will breathe throughout your life, every moment of it, but an opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime, and not even to everyone. Go for it!”
Breathe Life Moment Opportunity
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When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Record Song Feel Somebody
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We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Avoid Becomes Church Grows
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Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Belong Blessing Bottom Catholic
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Business Changing Days Getting
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Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

Above Among Another Day
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I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Actor Alternative Anything Anything Else
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Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

Children Easy Food Grave
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Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

Cannot Gospel Jesus Let Us
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Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

Articulate Even Fall How
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When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Bishops Build Cardinals Christ
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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Along Attitude Benefit Change
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Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Adapt Also Am Best
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I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Always Am Assess Decision
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I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Accurate Am Definition Figure
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A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Always Another Approved Asked
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Career Gone Instant Love
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

About Am Career First
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

Audience Business Entertainment Entertainment Business
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I think that since it's prom, you should definitely wear a long dress. You can wear a short one anytime! This is the moment when you get to be a princess, and for me, that means a sweetheart neckline, long, then pouf - out and big.

Anytime Big Definitely Dress
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

Ambitious Calls Cause Device
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The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

Album Arm Band Culture
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

World Fiction Made Contradiction
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow

Imagination Eternal World Vegetable
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I cannot emphasize enough the need to be you. You have been put on this earth by God to be you

God Be you Earth Emphasize
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Images of this covid virus are so ugly.

Ugly Images Virus Covid
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Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

Whether You Are Democrat
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I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense.

War Believe Terror Vital
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

World Freed Human Discover
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Truly, this is a nation that sees itself as one that instills hope and is really about allowing people to pursue their dreams.
Nation Allowing Pursue Dreams
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This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.
Land Immigrants Opportunity Chance
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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

Let Me Say This
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We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking about.

Need Constantly Representative Democracy
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I have been very fortunate to have a partner who really stepped up and have wonderful children who do a lot of things that make it easy for Mommy to do this work.

Fortunate Partner Stepped Wonderful
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Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

Republicans Always Try To
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When I was coming to this country, I heard about its promises.

Coming Country Promises
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Better Blogs Read Words
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