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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

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About American Life Make
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

Affects Concealed Conflict Discoveries
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Heroic Interruptions Judicious Just
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Aim Endless Hence Imaginary
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

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Around Bass Big Definitely
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.

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Age Common Sense Wisdom
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Because Book Create Different
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Amendment Countries Current First
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I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

Love People Engaged Society
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Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas

Helplessness Prayer Calls Heart
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Baptism Best Better Campaign
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Able Almost Any Conclusion
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Bad Bad Manners Good Good Manners
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With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Attitude Dizzy Height Climb
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

All The Facts Big Dreams Facts
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The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Perishable Science History Revealed
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
Dance Dance Floor Dances Floor
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Backwards Discipline Forward Going
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Best Give Luck Marches
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I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.

Coffee Computer Cups Foot
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

Present Situation Forging Towards
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If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Corporation Honesty Creating Conditions
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

Road Death Blood Alternative
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We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Example Fairly Confident Inhabited
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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Power Aloud Positively Components
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Trouble Ruined Praise Criticism
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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Life Peace Harmonious Stress
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Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Tomorrow Bed Take You
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Believe Faith Abilities Humble
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I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Beautiful Broken Each Everyone
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The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.

Continue Could Delighted Ever
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The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.

Believe Biggest Comfortable Earth
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Spend Practical Learn Value
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I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

Also Any Arms Certainly
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No matter who you are, no matter what you're going through, God knows it. He is with you. He is going to pull you through.

God Going He Knows
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Shoulder Drop Atlas World
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Killing Professional Soldiers War.people
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership Potent Strategy Character
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Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Figure Generalship Figure Accomplish
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If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Saddam Replaced Tomorrow Bad
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Without a leader, black ants are confused

Black Leader Confused
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The future is built with the bricks of optimism.
Built Future Bricks Optimism
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Every time in an interval of time in history, the human spirit is tested and challenged by an affliction or a pestilence, and with faith and resilience, we have always proven to be indomitable.

History Time Human spirit Affliction
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Authenticity Courage Find Lives
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I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

Love Clutching Appreciate Judging
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Human Language Phenomenon Analogue
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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

Active Blessed Career Civic
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Share Part Life People
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I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.

Acting Blessed Career Good
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