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The future is not something to be predicted, it’s something to be achieved,
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Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.
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The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.
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If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
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If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high... Hooray for you.
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My whole life has been dedicated to public service.
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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?
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I remember my manager telling me, Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first. Those words were very helpful.
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This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.
