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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.

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• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

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• I love working the legislative process.

  

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• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  

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• You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

  

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• Everything I do now is a first.

  

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• Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

  

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• Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

  

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• I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

  

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• The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

  

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• Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

  

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• Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

  

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• Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

  

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• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

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• Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

  

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• When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

  

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• I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

  

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• Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.

  

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• I have a pretty good ear.

  

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• The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

  

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• But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

  

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• I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard.

  

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• Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.

  

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• A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.

  

  Fernando Pessoa