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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

About Am Argument Being
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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

After Coming Family Frozen
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

Anyone Around China Ear
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Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk

Band Coming Downstairs Feel
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Because Call Door Drum
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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands

About Beginning Casting Everything
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Author Difficult First Front
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I blame the APC strategists for allowing things to remain at this level. They have failed to see the need to move quickly from campaign to governance mode. They are also behaving as if they are under the spell of Karma

APC Strategist Karma Governance
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A media manager in the 21st century is a slave of the Breaking News, a slave particularly of the 24-hour news cycle, and a potential nervous breakdown case.

Media Breaking news Manger Slave
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By May 29, my phones had stopped ringing as they used to. They more or less became museum pieces; their silence reminding me of the four years of my life that proved so momentous.

May 29 Phones My life Museum
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In the end, a wise thing had been done because the President wants to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus disease.

Wise thing Been done Curtail The spread
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It is necessary that we put records in their correct perspective concerning the recent meeting held by the National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, which has, unfortunately drawn criticism due to lack of understanding.

Necessary Put records Correct perspective Recent meeting
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The leaders of the party, who have received two successive massive mandates to govern the country and a majority of the states should be judged by how this exercise turns out in achieving these objectives, not cursed at the mere commencement of the process.

The leaders The party Have received Two successive
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We have to move ahead. We have to take everyone with us and ensure that the party is run in accordance with democratic norms and with consensus. We have to work for the benefit of the country.

We have Move ahead Take everyone Ensure
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This whole exercise, that should lead to massive reform and overhaul of the leadership of the party, as he said in that brilliant speech, was ''to save the APC from the imminent self-destruction.

Whole exercise Should lead Massive reform Overhaul
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For President Buhari who has received much of the cynical commentary, Nigerians know him as someone who will not do anything with bad intentions. Neither will he do anything out of partisan motivations or for himself.

Received much Cynical commentary Know him Partisan motivations
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In this regard, we look forward to welcoming members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group to our country to see for themselves the work that is going on to promote these fundamental rights of our citizens.

Look forward Welcoming members Parliamentary group Our country
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The President and Government have and will at all times work with those - both within and without Nigeria - with a concern for the rights to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

The President Government All times Work
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We urge the media to stop promoting manufactured controversies and to not give any further room for mischievous interpretations of the law on this matter.

The media Stop Promoting manufactured Controversies
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Boko Haram have targeted Christians and Churches specifically because they know it drives forward religious and land tensions already existent in the country. Similarly, they attack mosques and Muslims in order to issue the threat: radicalize, or become targets yourselves.

Have targeted Christians Churches Drives forward religious Land tensions
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In concert with our American and British allies, Nigeria’s military have pushed back the terrorists and largely reduced their capacity over the last five years compared to the previous decade.

In concert Military Have Pushed back
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Thank you Nigerians for entrusting the country’s government in the hands President Buhari.

Thank you Entrusting Country's government Hands
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Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.
Failure Opposite Success Part
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Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen
Life Dance Making Happen
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Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision Execution Hallucination
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Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Take Risks Failure Stepping stone
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You have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.

You Do Dream While
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I find that I am much more creative when I’ve actually taken care of myself.

Find Creative Care Myself
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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom.

Media Tend Mouth Conventional
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Meditation: a reboot for your brain and your soul.

Meditation Reboot Brain Soul
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We think mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of the time we put in at work, instead of the quality of the time we put in.

We Think Success Result
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Never make decisions from a place of lack.

Never make Decisions Place Lack
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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

Angels Fly Take Lightly
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I think especially as women we need to recognize that feeling pressure is completely self-imposed.

Think Women Recognize Feeling
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Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down.

Fear Abscence Mastery Getting up
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Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Fear Muscle Life Excercise
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Disconnecting from our technology to reconnect with ourselves is absolutely essential for wisdom.

Disconnecting Technology Reconnect Essential
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If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try and blend in

Primary Goal Approved Risks
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The soul is who I am. The soul is who you are, and it is one breath away.

Soul I Who You
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Live your life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

Live Life Everything Rigged
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Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

Living State Gratitude Gateway
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My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

Heart Ease Knowing Never
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So find your place to stand – your place of wisdom and peace and strength. And from that place, lead the third women’s revolution.

Find Place Stand Wisdom
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There can be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Single Thing Teach Life
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Ours is a generation bloated with information and starved for wisdom.

Generation Bloated Information Starved
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Don’t buy society’s definition of success because it’s not working for anyone.

Don't Buy Society Definition
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We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what’s left is who we truly are.

We Earth Accumulate Victories
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The happiest people are the most giving.

Happiest People Most Giving
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We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.

We Able Witness Eulogy
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Are we living our dream, or are we living somebody else’s dream?

We Living Dream Somebody
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