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But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

Achieve Goals Had Hard
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

Always Believed I Think Key
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And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

Handled Learn Play Pressure
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

Best Does Going Homework
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But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

Day Down How Performs
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Big Big Problem Corruption Personally
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Accountability Audit Commission Feel
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

Good Government Local Local Government
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

Burning Fire House Out
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Achieving Aid Better Colonialism
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

Back Balance Colonialism Fight
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Another Because Chance Common
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You don't kill your way to peace.

Peace Way You Your
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Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

Anti War Because Called Been
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Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

Hearts Minds People Terrorism
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I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

Hearts Minds Muslim Muslim World
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Basically Cows Fresh Fruit
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Area Authority Country Easily
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

Always Came I Came Politics
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I am basically a private person.

Am Basically I Am Person
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

Agent Am Critics Doing
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The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

Been Dollars Few Million
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

Brought Extremists Mainstream Pakistan
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We do not play politics. We are not masochists; rather, we are people who choose to hunger a little to remain alive instead of feeding fat to become respectable corpses.

Play politics People Choose Feeding
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I still believe that the one thing that will bring peace, absolute peace, to this country, the type of peace we want attached to development, is to liberate Ndi Igbo and there is no better act of liberation than accepting that they have equal right in Nigeria.

Peace Nigeria Development Liberate
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The history of the world is a chronicle of oppression.
History Chronicle World Oppression
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It is said that the 1966 coup that failed was strictly an Igbo coup, but then the irony of history is that it was the late General Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo who single-handedly dismantled the coup in Lagos, while my humble self, another Igbo-man rendered it immobile in the north.

1966 Coup Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi
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We are humans. We live. We fight, fight because the decision to be free is a decision taken freely and collectively, because to become involved in violent struggle for freedom is the only honor left to an oppressed people threatened with genocide, because in the final analysis the only true bulwark against death is to live.

Humans Decision Freely Genocide
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What I have become, in this struggle is the mouthpiece of my people. I go where they push and no more.

People Mouthpiece Struggle Push
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If a leader accepts himself as already dead to society, there will be no reason for cowardice in his leadership.

Leader Society Dead Cowardice
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We make no apologies for the social phenomenon known as the Biafran revolution; rather, we proclaim with pride the inevitability of our struggle, the indestructibility of our people, and the assured finality of our success.

Biafran Apologise Revolution Phenomenon
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Biafra is a child of circumstance. His existence and survival are always a marvel, sometimes bordering on a miracle. His life is a tribute to man, his courage is his endurance, his ingenuity is his humanity.

Biafra Circumstance Existence Survival
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One thing that frightens leaders and lead them to a number of excesses is usually fear of death. No leader should fear death. In fact, you should accept the fact that from the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death.

Leaders Frightens Death Excesses
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Since oppression is maintained by force, it is only possible to remove that oppression by a counter force.

Oppression Force Remove Possible
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From the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death.

Moment Leadership Sacrificed Death
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There is no humiliation I have not endured, no snare that has not been put in my path, no setup that has not been designed for me in my endeavour to use the path of peace to enforce the mandate that you bestowed on me one year ago.

Humiliation Endured Snare Enforce
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Only real democracy can move our nation forward towards progress, and earn her the respect she deserves from the international community.

Democracy Our nation Forward Respect
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Our youths, in particular, can see no hope on the horizon, and many can only dream of escaping from our shores to join the brain drain. Is this the Nigeria we want? We are plagued also by periodic balance of payments crises, which have led to a perennial shortage of essential drugs, that has turned our hospitals and clinics into mortuaries.

Youths Horizon Dream Escaping
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A scarcity of books and equipment has rendered our schools into desolate deserts of ignorance.
Scarcity Books Equipment Schools
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No one can give you power. It is yours. Take it! From this day, show to the world that anyone who takes the people of Nigeria for fools is deceiving himself and will have the people to answer to.

Power Nigeria Fools Deceiving himself
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Those with whom I have sought to dialogue have remained like stones, neither stirred to show loyalty to the collective decision of the people of their own country, nor to observe Allah’s injunction that they should exhibit justice and fair play in all their dealings with their fellowmen.

Dialogue Stones Allah Justice
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I am the custodian of a sacred mandate, freely given, which I cannot surrender unless the people so demand, and it is by virtue of this mandate that I say that the decision of the Federal Military Government to cancel the election of June 12, 1993 is invidious, unpatriotic and capable of causing undue and unnecessary confusion in the country.

Custodian Mandate Sacred Freely
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People of Nigeria, these are challenging times in the history of our continent, Africa, and we in Nigeria must not allow ourselves to be left behind. Our struggle is the same as that waged by the people of South Africa, which has been successfully concluded, with the inauguration of Mr. Nelson Mandela as the first African President of that country.

Nigeria Africa History Nelson Mandela
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Like the South Africans, we want MAJORITY rule today, that is rule only by those chosen by all the people of Nigeria as a whole in free and fair elections.

South African Majority Rule Chosen
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Let us say goodbye forever to minority rule by the military.
Say Minority Goodbye Military
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The antics of every minority that oppresses the majority are always the same. They will try to intimidate you with threats of police action. But do not let us fear arrest

Antics Oppresses Majority Intimidate
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The only difference between South Africa and Nigeria is that those who imposed minority rule on the majority rule whether it is by black or white remains minority rule, and must be booted out

South Africa Nigeria Minority Majority
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Talent Can Genius Does
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Best Teacher Suggests Dogmatizes
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Life Beautiful Art Moves
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