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The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

Stars Friend Legends Phantoms
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All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. All hatred would come to an end when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

Evil Desires Opinion Religious
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

Playing Basketball Kill Me
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I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.

Able Wanted See Opportunity
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
Dad Hero Personality Mother
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Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

Big Success Sacrifices Denial
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In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

Country Politics Considered Waste
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When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

Young Listen People Understand
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I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

Girl Land Where Rifles
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I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Remembered Girl Shot Stood
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For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

Brothers Think Easy Future
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I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Must Confess Born Early
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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Am Because Being Capable
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Built Evolved Failures Process
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A young man was very excited to see his President at the Argungu fishing festival. He made to walk straight to him for a handshake. Security details prevented it. Now, opposite people are passing it off as an attempt to attack the President. How malicious can some people be!

Young Man President Festival
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Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

Best Easy Ever Go
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I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.

Artists Bought Cared DVD
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A lot of rappers don't have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.

Always Bubble Go Had
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I don't think there were great beauty trends in the '90s - I was just doing my own thing.
Beauty Doing Great Just
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Canada was built on dead beavers.

Beaver Built Canada Dead
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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Because Had Important Love
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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.

Been Being Builder Child
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.

Always Custodian Honour Human
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Hitler was NOT a socialist and Castro did not kill millions. The latter was the most loved and trusted leader amongst his own people in the Caribbean and possibly in the west. That is why the socialist revolution in Cuba has stood the test of time against all odds.

Socialist Kill Millions Loved
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In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Reality Lived Hieroglyphic World
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What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Lily Craved Darkness Enfolding
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It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
Easy Despise World Habitable-region
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His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Future Suddenly Unrolled
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I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
Screw Life Machine Dropped
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I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

Lonely Afraid Emptiness Darkness
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The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Taste Cinders Mouth Moments
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He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.
Known Love Caresses Feeds
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There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

Trying Emancipate Wife Dimmest-notion
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Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
Dilated Atmosphere Luxury Climate
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Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Failure Useful Success
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It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Happiness Missed Lived-on
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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Little Addicted Moments Welcome
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A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

Before Myself Different Mental
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I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.

Extra Strength Win Help
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

Biology College Double Education
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I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Always Am Better Breathing
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

About Deeply Feminine Sacred
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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

About Alone Cave Courage
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I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Appreciating Born IWasBorn Incapable
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Been Best Far Has-Been
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Anonymity Bach Been Born
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Accident Am By The People Elected
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Born Had Human Human Right
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Always Canvas Did Every
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

Appreciated California Dear Even
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