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If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

Been Best Children Could
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If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

About Childhood Come Compassion
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It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

Another Better Degree Everyone
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A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.

Carrier Disease Immune Many
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I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

Belief Believe Born Canvas
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Ever Existed Genius Great
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Attention Behold Brave Brave Man
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Benefit Cheerfully Fingers Give
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Fade Health Life Soul
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Bang Ends Way World
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Anxious Dependence Enjoy Future
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Blind Color Education Emancipation
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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Believe Destiny Excellence Generation
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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Humanity Just Know Life
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Attend Church Episcopal Greater
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
Favorites General Office Same
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Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

About Alone Anything Bed
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

Beach Front Live Love
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

Again Am Been Being
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

Always Because Changed Family
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

High Intensity Life Lived
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

About Am Been Comfortable
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Alliance Close Despot Free
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Excessive Free Good Security
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Forgiveness Future Without
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

Across Africa Appeal Countries
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God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Become Children God Patient
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Confidence Considerable Courage Down
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In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Bible Bunch Encounter First
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Compassion Truths Goodness Live
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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Achieve Also Created Future
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When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

Boy Congo Cyprus Dinner
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The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

American Civil Corporate Down
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Beat Drops Head Kiss
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

America Been Concerned Depicting
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

Able All My Life Anything Been
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People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Comfortable Different Evolved Gotten
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

American Among Artist Be Different
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Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

Heard Internet Million Networks
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Artist Beauty Interpret Mission
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

About Against Down Enthusiastic
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Between Connection Differentiate Educators
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Brood Forever Get Living
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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Back Gift God Talent
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I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

All My Life Been Intense Knowledge
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The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

Action Begin Death Dying
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I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Anybody Books Bought Bread
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Always Dealt Difficulties Every
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
Information Knowledge Lost Where
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