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I was never cut out to be a number two.

Never Cut out Number two
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Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

Every hour Manual work Humiliated Degraded
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It’s good to dream, and I was born a dreamer.

Good To dream Born
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My dream when I was younger was that my parents could watch me on television.

My dream Younger My parents Watch me
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When I was growing up, I thought everything was a life of friendship, respect, and sharing. But I discovered that unfortunately, you have people who aren’t behaving in the same way but have hatred.

Everything Life Friendship Respect
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The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

The tragedy Die Be wasted
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He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.

Feed Caterpillar Whisper Nature
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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Happiness Occasional episode General drama Pain
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I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

Grew up Believing Fundamentally powerless
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I used to believe in the system that I was born into: aspire, acquire, consume, get famous and glamorous, get high and mighty, get paid and laid.

Believe System Born Aspire
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Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and be happened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.

Hear Attend Listen Befell
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The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.

The doer When Receiver Is ready
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But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end

Big people Illness Sound big Simple shutting
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We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.

Nature Empty stomach Produce illusions Grandeur
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The eye hath ruined me,’ the heart complained. ‘The heart has lost me,’ the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied Between, the two, it was Meer who died.

Ruined me Heart complained Eye replied
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When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

Am dead Pageant train Waste Sorrows
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Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

Freedom Come quickly Robes Peace
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I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

Afraid Play My age An ingenue
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I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

Really conflicted Always planned The world
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The strange thing about this lockdown is that Germany, where there was barely any lockdown and restrictions were minimal, ended up with a great outcome for its population. Germany right now feels almost normal.

Strange thing Lock down Restriction Minimal
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I’m not saying I’m different. I’m not saying I’m clever, I’ve just worked my whole life to rebuild myself after I was fired.

Different Clever Worked Life
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If only people knew that behind all this swag and tree climbing is a huzzle story that you won’t believe...but there was more to life than carrying your problem for face. 

People Swag Believe Life
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My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character.

My grandmother Beautiful Incredibly stylish
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.

A kid Thought Going An actor
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I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

Bullied At school Carried briefcase At home
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Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions.Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Waste Energy Change opinions Care
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Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Literature Intended Dangerous Art
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I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I always felt kind of sad.

Never interested What everybody Felt kind
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I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Felt Worked hard Entire life Deserved
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I was living a life of a lie, I really was.

Was living Life A lie Really was
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I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated.
Was unfaithful Had affairs Cheated
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I don’t want to become as good as I once was. I want to become better.

Want to Good Once was Become better
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Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

Money Fame Me believe Entitled
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Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Force Your kids Sports Play golf
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Greatness Was won Men With courage
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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

Masturbation Primary Sexual activity Mankind
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Religion Strong Science weak Mistook magic
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Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.

Saddest things In life Wasted talent
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He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.

Relationship Man Determined by The woman
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I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Remember The house Was born Little window
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Mandela was a complex character,both the aristocrat, and royalty, and the peasant; the intellectual and the ordinary person; he was a combination of so many different characteristics, you cannot just put him into one box and say ‘this is him’.

Mandela Complex Aristocrat Royalty
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Please stay safe, wash your hands and practice social distancing by all means
Please Stay safe Wash Your hands
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We must now intensify protective measures such as wearing of face masks, hand washing and practicing physical distancing. We cannot afford to act irresponsibly, so we must take this preventive action very seriously.

Now intensify Protective measures Wearing Face masks
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It is common knowledge that civil servants are expected to tender advice to Ministers but it was not obligatory on the part of Ministers to accept advise so tendered. It will therefore be wrong to blame civil servants for mistakes made by their Ministers who in many cases did not accept the advice given to them by these officers.

Common Knowledge Civil servant Minister
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Science Organized Common sense Beautiful theory
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I must also emphasize that this pandemic does not select its victims based on age. In fact, one of the victims of the virus in this state was only 24 years old.

Emphasize This pandemic Select Victims
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I urge you to continue to maintain the sanitary protocols such as hand washing, the use of hand sanitizers, social distancing and other announced guidelines to stem the spread of this virus.

Continue Protocols Hand washing Sanitizer
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The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

The words Round My mind My body
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I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realized that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

Become conscious My physicality Presence Ugly truth
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He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.

Moonlight Fell In love Most beautiful
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