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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

Want Down Dress Good
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History shows that the most famous winners usually had faced enormous difficulties. But they won because they refused to be defeated.

Show Most Won Had
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A business like an automobile it has to be driven in order to get results.

Has Order Result Like
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We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

Believe Change Ability Ask
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My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Race Believe Begin Fact
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

Deserve Freedom Own Each
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There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.

Happy Want Same Mean
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Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Long Better Found Many
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Peace Guard Secure Way
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When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!

Much Your Yourself Done
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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

Expect Good Food People
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“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Wise Rise Early Make
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Fool Have Honest Are
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There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Always Down Song Bad
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Success Much Overcome Life
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People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

Good Me Time Money
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Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

Education Force Arbitrary Culture
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Past Pioneer Future Prisoner
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Gone Intend End Need
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

House Art Nature Haunt
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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

Believe Impress Evidence Reject
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Comfortable Complete Situation Trouble
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Hazard Ridicule Incur Abhorrence
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Endowed Sense Reason Intellect
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Wise Banks Mountain Emperor
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
Truly Knowledge Ignorant
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

Affirmation Faded Negation
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Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
Entrusted Empire Fit Only
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Lesson Live Understood Life
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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Illusion Property Defend Violence
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It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't come back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.

Away Hurt Hard Someone
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It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

People Mirror Look Obsessed
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and vibrantly alive in repose.

Learn Still Repose Midst
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Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Famous Work Hard Everybody
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I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

Despite Rumors Intimate Kind
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Design Life Dream Active
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Matter Blind Face Reality
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Love Enjoy Privilege Precious
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All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.

Young Live Happy Die
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She refused to be bored, chiefly because she wasn't boring.

Chiefly Boring Refused
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Whole Secret Fox Lion
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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

Thousands Sage Mind Distract
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Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

Understand Shallow
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We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

Alone Beautiful Blind Deaf
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People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.

People
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You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

Real Life Love Music
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You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?

Mother Sport Music Passion
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Buy First Sell Control
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It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

Team Player Logical Natural
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

Important Confident Hot Believe
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