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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.

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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

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• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

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• Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

  

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• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

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• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

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• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

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• At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

  

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• I don't like possessions.

  

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• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

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• The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

  

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• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  

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• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  

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• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

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• One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

  

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• Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.' That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.

  

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• Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

  

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• T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,Is to hate traitors and the treason love.

  

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• The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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