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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Prosperity Restored Raid Public treasury
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Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

Because Believe Bigger Decrease
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Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Free government Most difficult Everlastingly true
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Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Freedom Die Front attack Men
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To confront the Covid-19 pandemic, Osun State Government and people seek your kind support in building Isolation centers, equipping hospitals, providing food & materials as palliatives for the millions that are vulnerable in our Osun State, Nigeria. Your kind support will be appreciated

Confront Pandemic Government People
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

World Shipmates Sin Pays
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Man Youth upwards Conviction Easiest way
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Away Diminishes Does Done
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

Actor Actually Around Because
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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Children Hopefully Meet Our
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

Bad Couple Directors Front
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It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

Any Efforts Enterprise Ever
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

After Budget Camera Cheesy
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Always Because Give Giving
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I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Could Ever Felt Get
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I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.

Always Blood Dirt Makeup
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Accepting Attempted Begins Crow
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I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

Around Because Been Bus
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But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Exciting Find Gives Just
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The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

Church Democratic Democratic Party Line
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I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

Bill Bill Clinton Came Clinton
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.

Goal Grow Grow Up I Love
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Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

Against Argument Contrary Course
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

Agreement Husband Mutual Pact
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Harming himself Another
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before

Give up Designs Goal Victory
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After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.

No one Stupid Prefer War
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Happiness Fame Riches Inspire posterity
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Always Slave Live Little
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

Competitiveness Degree Fostering Freedom
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Also Conception Contrast Could
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Proud to be a Lagosian, super proud to be a Nigerian, Ecstatic to be African.
Proud to Supper Ecstatic
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It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

About Fat Just Okay
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I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

Came Comic Here Laugh
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

About Believe Ever Father
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

Always Been Breakthrough Exciting
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Assume Capabilities Character Common
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I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food.

Animal Anxious Be Happy Because
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Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

About Because Could Decade
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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

Any Clone Einstein Either
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The tree that does not support us when we lean on it cannot kill us when it falls on us.

The tree Support us Lean Kill
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

Becomes Child Citizen Controlling
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Corrupt Defeating Leads Legislation
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

Bear Close Each Ever
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

Been Break Consequence Direction
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

America American Burning Delight
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I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.

Being Bridges Comprehensive Crowds
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For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

Doing Enjoying Everything First
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I love mixing up my genres.

Genres ILove Love Mixing
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