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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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To the last moment of his breathOn hope the wretch relies;And e'en the pang preceding deathBids expectation rise.
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He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.
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What is more important in a library than anything else - is the fact that it exists.
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
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The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.
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HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
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An attitude can murder just as easily as an ax.
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If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
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Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
