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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change ChangeTheWorld Citizens Committed
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Am Bring Cannot Forth
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Am Call Corrupt Down
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Am Comfortable Fish Holding
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

After Building Come Crisis
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

Countries Getting Having Here
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Anger Bottom Breath Coming
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She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

Happy Lies Dust Eye
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Comfort Relationship Substitute Supplied
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Continuous Distant Hear Other
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Almost Always Becomes Demands
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Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots, Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup,
Under Ground Brains Eaten
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Celtic Clubs Even Everybody
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Big Big Problem Corruption Personally
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Area Authority Country Easily
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

Always Around Different Different Places
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Book Happy Lame Could
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

Church Grew Kid Very
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Because Better Book Gets
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

About Circumstances Difficult Grew
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Absence After Argument Lot
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Am Boy Call Grown
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Air Come Never Over
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Accurate AccurateInformation Add Believe
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Behaviors Directly Fragile Humanity
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change ChangeTheWorld Could Ever
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Adult Children Depends Grow
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Asked Before Box Ever
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Believing Enough Fooling Grow
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

After Becomes Before Begins
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
Cannot Down Elevator Going
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

About Construction Creating Father
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Become Designed Kiss Lovely
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Alone Care Earned Grown
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

Ever Had Human Inside
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whatever the government does not support would have a hard time succeeding.

Government Support Hard Succeeding
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If one is not appreciated where he comes from, it would be hard for outsiders to support you.

Appreciated Comes-from Outsiders Support
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People have different interests and what they look out for. That a woman makes up her face or uses jewelry doesn’t mean she’s not a wife material.

People Interest Woman Make-up
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On matters of health and Science, once the political leadership bends towards the pressures of mythical clerics, their superstitions and conspiracy theories, the ordinary man pays the price.

Health Science Political Pressure
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The world has lots of people created to support your vision and ideas… Never think you can do it alone… Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

World People Created Support
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Nigerian celebrities need to rise up and do what’s right. We must hold hands with our South African brothers for the world to see. That is how we change our narrative.

Celebrities Right Hold Hands
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Our parents may be tough on us; however, the most important thing a father can do for his child is being there and showing up.

Parent Tough Father Child
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He who constantly upsets you, or makes you angry, has control over you. Stop allowing people who do not matter, or who’s opinions are not relevant, to control your life.
Constantly Upset Angry Control
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Sometimes the best way to find something is to quit looking for it. Sometimes you just need to be quiet and listen. Most times we are so occupied and so anxious and miss it.

Sometimes Best Way Quiet
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Never allow the ministry to replace your relationship with God. It is so easy to get caught up in ministry, and be caught up in the zeal for ministry, and not know we are loosing track.

Allow Ministry Replace Relationship
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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Just Just As Much Made Money
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Always Aroused Born Create
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