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Dont wait til Ramadan or Christmas to give food to the poor in your village. Give them education and they will learn how to feed themselves.

Learn Poor Give Feed
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The problem with Nigeria isn’t people, its the structure! If we don’t fix our structure, even an angel will have challenges leading Nigeria.

Fix People Problem Leading
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The more you attack your predecessor the higher the bar is set for you. Know how slippery a road is before knocking those who slipped on it.

Attack Higher Road Bar
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Act Book Bring Creative
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Real reading is a lonely activity.

Real Reading Lonely Activity
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Drinking I Evils Read
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Absolutely Best Reader Writer
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Hopeless Romantic Love Time
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Courage Follow Heart Intuition
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Smoke Married Work Drink
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Instead Talking Appreciate Arrogant
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Nighttime People Thing Supposed
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Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
Stage Minutes Fright Remember
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Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Convince Separates Entrepreneurs Perseverance
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Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.

Voice Head Control Brain
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Life People Influence Build
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Burn Special Better Smell
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Life Hit Faith Brick
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War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

War Pathetically Times Small
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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Administer Fortunate Governments How
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Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Life Broad Embrace Change
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Any Appeal Broad Force
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Voice Happened Before Tap
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

Perform Would Trying Bomb
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Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products. Instead, enrich lives.
Customer Happy Product Enrich
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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Great Honest Life Know
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To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.

Working Game Changer Confidence
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I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Prone Error Humans Upgrade
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The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Adversary Against Art Attention
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

Classmates Flinch Gesture Afraid
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I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist.

Hungry Cultures Exist Suffer
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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Even Extremely Heaven Hell
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As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Admitted Cause Doubting Even
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The moment you find yourself discussing people you are already failing; you are losing valuable time.

Moment Yourself Failing Time
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I always thought our problem was our leaders until I joined politics and realized the people are also a big part of the problem.

Always Problem Thought Leaders
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you

Always Behind Face Sunshine
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Another Bad Believe Change
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Crises Emergencies Great Greater
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Bad Best God Good
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Bad Bad One Between Cause
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Act Advantage Better Character
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes

ContainContradict Large Multitudes Myself
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Always Ambassador Authors Best
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Employment Following Man May
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Afraid Am Back Better
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