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If a leader is leading a country to fight corruption, he must start from his own base. He must be ready and willing to put his home right.

Home Start Base Ready
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Leaders can only lead right by example, not by propaganda. I take exception.

Lead Example Take Right
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One thing I want you all to realise today is this... I love President Muhammadu Buhari, people think I hate him but I don't. Democracy is founded on opposition.

Realise Today Hate People
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Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

Ambition First Child Had
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

Believe Difficult Fidelity Killer
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If we are ready to fight corruption, then let's sit tight about it and do away with politics.

Ready Away Fight Tight
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Somebody must have a different view from all these views. I have a different view in Nigeria, and I'm not ready to surrender that will.

View Ready Somebody Surrender
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Adventurous Age Dad Formative
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

Dreadful Fall Go Life
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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Common Consent Individuals Laws
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.

Angle Bad Need Overweight
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
Felt Find Had Identity
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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Alone Bad Better Company
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Avoid Desire Instruments Insult
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Become Canvas Concrete Different
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Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Away Bad Kind Lost
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Bad Better Excuse Offer
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Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Bigot Christianity Church Direct
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I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Direction Little Observe Path
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Except Means Never Peace
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Adversity Always Better Cherish
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

After Again Any Being
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Bad Effective Execution Know
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Bible Book Civilization Fast
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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Church Corporation Dead Equally
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Attempt Believe Come Enigma
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Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Adjust Conquering Enemies Expanding
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Being Book Concepts Contains
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Before Die Fear Instead
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Dead Die Everyone Going
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Bad Good Greatest History
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Better Dead Job Life
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Bogged Breadth Devoid Down
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Adolescent Africa Because Books
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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Dream Every Exalted Flesh
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Country Evaluate Everybody Fact
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Attention Difficult Down Net
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Academic Being Certain Colleagues
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Easy Myth People Publishers
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Cast Everything See Shadow
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
After Book I Think Judged
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Books Just Oldest Only
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Alert Being Coffee Cup
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Certain Children Decided Had
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Adolescence Convinced Everyone First
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Bad Cannot Does Forget
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Actor Business Crazy Dead
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

Challenging Difficult Ever Extraordinary
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Always Conclusions Contrary Enough
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