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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

Pledge World Power Humanity
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

Time Important Care Hard
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Better Life Thing Purpose
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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

People Thing Great Leader
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Halfway Believe Can There
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Happen Week Decade Where
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One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Promise Fulfill Fool Understand
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Give Make What Life
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Peace War Than Hard
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

Problem People Around Time
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It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.

Government Interest Nation Process
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Worth Kind Force Break
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

Blame Fair Enough Alone
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

Control Global Problem Giant
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

Long Idea Down General
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Era Live Grow Virtue
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We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Approach Socialism Closer
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Work Profit Hard Use
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

Socialism America Doubt Affect
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

Communist Sense Science Innocent
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

Understand Newspaper People Challenge
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.

Green Policy Triggering Cleaner
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If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

Tax Old Banger Hell
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

Teenagers Surveys Logos Staggering
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

School Teach Children Basic Skills
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

Anyone Driving London Term
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

Perhaps Generate Plastic Society
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The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

Ecologist Lost Money Launched Edition
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You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

Want Curb Raise Street
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

Online Years Uploading Archive
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

London North America Half
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

Pound Energy Seven Solution
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.

System Climate Change Abstract
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

Capacity Passenger Fly London
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

Flights Preserve Hearthrows Hub
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

Big Business Political Access
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
Career Private Life Eye
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Horse Races Take Lonely
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Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

Young Fight Create Immigrant
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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Greatest Gift Life Friendship
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

Achieve Fight Must Peace
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Enemies Friends Make Peace
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

Also City Ground Heart
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I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.

I Can Imagine Myself Palestinian
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
About Learn Lessons Make
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We don't have all the time in the world with oil. We have to use oil while it makes sense to do so.

Makes Oil Sense Time
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Hate speech is a specie of terrorism.

Hate Speech Terrorism
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We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down.

Anywhere Beat Best Down
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If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines in the 1990s convinced that China was going nowhere. How wrong they were.

Africa Around China Convinced
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Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature.

Between Conflict Executive Here
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