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Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

Actually Binding Bondage Clothes
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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Close Deal Fame Fear
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For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

Actor Around Form Major
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Gentleman Good Lady Must
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Acting Nice Open People
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I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

Acting Apart Given How
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I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

Alone Brave Challenge End
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To think that some of our teachers flogged us back then in school for speaking our language. Calling it vernacular. Can you imagine? You speak your own language you get flogged. All those teachers should be ashamed of themselves. Oyibo people really messed up our brains.

Our teachers Flogged us School Language
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We are our own biggest enemies, until we learn to treat each other with dignity, Love and respect; outsiders will continue to mistreat us. If you doubt me, just try and mess with the children of mindless wild animals and see if respect eludes you upon survival.

Biggest enemies Treat Dignity Love
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When you ride a tiger, you must be prepared to end up in its bowels.
When Ride Tiger Be prepared
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Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

Back Because Child Eyes
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The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

Did Forgive Forgiving How
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I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
Angels Belief Deep Fought
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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

About Admired Against Family
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The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

About Absence Adult Between
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

Benefit Children College College Education
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

Be The First First Girl Guess
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I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

Albums Mix Music Styles
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Apart Flaws Great Irony
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The best thing that a man can do is to give up and let go when he knows that all is lost. Be bold and wise enough to know that you have lost the battle & save as many of your troops as you can by retreating. Learn to let go, heal, gain your strength & live to fight another day.

Best thing A man Give up Knows
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There is no glory in shame. There is no honor in defeat. There is no dignity in failure. There is no gain in whining & telling a long & pitiful story to 'friendly ears', 'concerned friends', 'eager supporters' & 'free loaders' who will use it to mock and insult you and yours later.

Glory In shame Honor Defeat
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My win is your win, Afrobeat is a movement and we need all the support we can get. The comparisons between me and my heroes are unnecessary, let’s stop bringing down our own. Let’s celebrate where Afrobeat is at today and focus on where it will be tomorrow

Afrobeat My win Tomorrow Heroes
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I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Relationship Sound bite Trivializes Adventure
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Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Faith Uprooted Dialectic Shaken
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.

Man Moral life Society Solidarity
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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

Atheism God existed Have Evil
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I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.

Very obvious Incompetence Lack Common sense
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Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

Winning Getting up More time
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

Appreciate Positive experience Religion New family
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The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

The atheist Nearer To God Believer
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You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool?

You make Some money Show face Inspire people
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I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Think relationships Broken up Media
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When you’re growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you’ve let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Growing up Your superhero In love
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Everything evens up, you just wait. Even a garage can gets a steak. You are not even a garbage can, you have faith!
Everything Even up Steak Garage
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I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.

Lose Defeat Valuable lesson
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I weep, yes I weep Not to holify corrupt faiths Or a partition less landscape But for the sanctity of humanity

Weep Corrupt faith Partition Landscape
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Fears of barrels and of chains Drown up a people's voice And the leaders turn butt-led Speaking a two-way parable.

Fear Barrels People's voice Speaking
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A bloody well of compatriots filled In western education gone bad Where one bang tears up the man Consuming the rest around him.

Bloody well Compatriots Western education
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We Cannot Be Equals, I know another who says we are equal, Yet she grew up together with both parents While mine broke up before I toddled.

Be equals Grew up Both parent Broke up
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and not forgetting the recent killings of some of our girls in Nigeria, I will be observing Black Out Tuesday - an urgent step of action to provoke accountability and change ⁣ Let us all stand up together to fight this inequality and injustice. ⁣

Recent killing Our girls Black out Accountability
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Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path. Sometimes a broken heart fixes your vision.

All storms Disrupt Your life Sometimes
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

Nothing more Horrifying Stupidity In action
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

Moment comes History Step out New
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I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.

Truly thank Giving me Opportunity Be loved
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Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.

Mental act Opens up New dimension Manner
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Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.

Convinced Human personality Survive Call death
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

My manner Thinking Approved.i care
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Lust Other passions Nervous fluid Life
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Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

My friend Corrupt Person You love
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