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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Africa Because Creditors Investors
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

About Brainy Cause Day
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Because Better Dream Expectations
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

Because Dictate Figure Hot
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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Am Because Could Critics
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Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Joy Mystery Anywhere Anytime
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Affects Also Aspects Because
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I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Destroy Nuclear Cataclysm Capacity
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Magic Courage Life Face
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Because Deemed Good Helps
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Because Conscience Excess Feared
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Because Containing Face Invested
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I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.

Because Countries Economy I Think
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Affair Authors Because Being
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

After Because Come Deserved
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My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

Because Disposal Garbage Out
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The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Because Camera Digital Great
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Punishment Corporal Introduce School
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I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

Abandon Past Used Terminology
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I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

Because Certain Closet Comfortable
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

Good Good Mood Having Humor
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There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

Film Hollywood How Length
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Accepted Astonished BeTrue Because
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Build Failure Stepping Stone
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

Able Because Being Both
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Against Arms Bear Because
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If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Elitist Feminism Goals Life
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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To get the PFA Player of the Year is a fantastic honour. It's the highest honour you can get because it's voted by your fellow peers.

Because Fantastic Fellow Get
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My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

Design Graphic Graphic Design I Can
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I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

Started Singing Because Was
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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Leaders Because Should Nigeria
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Sad World Sorrow Young
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Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

Life Want Singer Part
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Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

Imagine Walking Trip Care
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My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Because Been Course Crimes
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I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

Anything Because Ever FiHome
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“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

Faithful Small-things Strength Lies
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Some Men Alive Simply
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He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;

How Glad Suffered Sorrow
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He reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first

Poor Cottage Seemed Ready
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Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Because Charming Delightful Exploitation
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Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

Great Advantage Knowledge Adversary
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And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Across Because Children Cry
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Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

Because Gospel In Print Just
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The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

Show Allow Myself Writing
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Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.

Because Between Blocks Building
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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Bear Because Believe Better
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Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

Love Fulfilled Vain Frustrated
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Consider Proof Written Books
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