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The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Resistance Tightly Desire Betrays
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The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

Labors Generations Trust When
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God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

God Presence Will Others
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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

Masterpiece Constant Motion Improve
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Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Intimacy Beign Distance Horizon
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Create Identity Dominate Strong
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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Look People Surround Positive
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I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’

Regret Fine Talk Serious
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I love riding, even if it’s just my Vespa. You just zip and do your thing. I find there’s a different awareness when I ride; it connects me to my senses and to God.

Ride Aware Connect Senses
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Things Own Angle Point
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How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often.

Crossroad Allowed Life Think
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.

Unique Style Black Braid
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Nothing Divide Small Jobs
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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?

Remember War Scared Real
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Moving Success Itself Together
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There are times you can’t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Sweet Mountain Valley Punch
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You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Learn Can't World School
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What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time’s up?

Live Dreams Possibilities Time
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It’s tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

Enjoy Mood Work Time
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Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Lose Use Either Must
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Frightful Things Eyes Goal
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Learning Greatest Mind Keep
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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the ’80s. When it’s that close to you, you can’t really deny it, and you can’t run from it.

Relatives Friends Birthday Deny
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Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.

Belief Tough Outwards Joy
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Right Think Can't If
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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Bothers Making Time Better
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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

BUNK SIck Excercise Healthy
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There’s no way I can represent for everyone. I can’t represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It’s important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can’t take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

Women People Celebrity Pressure
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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Hand Energy Ideas Irresistible
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

Silly Love Smart Things
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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

Serious Joker Person Anyone
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Build What Going Reputation
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Someone Time Limited Living
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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Men Together Living Must
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

Love Work Great Settle
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Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Whether Think Usually Right
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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Noise Opinion Drown Inner
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Man World Reserve Experience
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Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Follow Heart Intuition Become
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Remember Against Airplane Wind
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Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Right Believe Can Wether
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If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
Someday Certainly Right Last
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Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Hit Brick Head Convinced
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Discover Definitely Possible Enough
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So sad that in Nigeria, very few want to participate in revenue generation yet everyone wants to participate in revenue allocation.

Sad Few Revenue Everyone
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Dont wait til Ramadan or Christmas to give food to the poor in your village. Give them education and they will learn how to feed themselves.

Learn Poor Give Feed
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The more you attack your predecessor the higher the bar is set for you. Know how slippery a road is before knocking those who slipped on it.

Attack Higher Road Bar
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Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Beautiful Great Magic Potential
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Always Beautiful Because Best
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