Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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I'm a drama nerd. ~Luke Kirby
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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