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An illiterate wey beleful no go add any value to anybody.

Illiterate Value Anybody Beleful
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I am part of this country that will keep speaking the obvious ways life can be made better for us all.

Country Keep Speaking Life
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Replace Careful End Always
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Democracy Educated Grounded Healthy
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Story Part Work History
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Centuries Day Enough Just
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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Existing Gains Imagine Journey
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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Leaders Because Should Nigeria
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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Children Dawn Elderly Government
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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Detour Good Hell Pretty
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Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Adventure Life Change Child
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Concern Future Past Rigid
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Unconditional War Longer Lead
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If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

People Head Bow Confidence
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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Poverty Means Fears Above
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I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Second Village Rome First
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Dedicated Great Task Honored
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Ready Reason Man Spend
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Sad World Sorrow Young
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Like Thing Stick Reading
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

People Right Asset Maintain
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Best Way Repealed Enforce
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
Capacity Taste Reading Access
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Adopt Her Nature Pace
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Deep Form Minds Must
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Advance Boy Critical Develops
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Advantage Cannot Hope We Cannot
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

Admission Creates Excellent Fault
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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Because Believe Committed Could
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Drugs made me feel more normal.

Feel Made Me More
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

Acting Adolescence Behind Best
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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
Adorable Because Father Get
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination...or a headache.

Great Wind Blowing Imagination
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read

Position Read Write Talk
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I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

Around Away Environment Everyone
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It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

About Affecting Age Appreciate
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Always Getting Live Living
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Child Get Glad Him
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Flowers Fragrance Spread Direction
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Work Always Ask Questions
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Test Servant Duty Relative
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Do good in this life. We ain’t going to live this world alive just have fun and wish people good even if they do you bad never pay evil for evil.

Do good Life Fun Pay
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Advertising is how you program the public

Advertising Program Public You
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Start with facts before you add your opinion

Start Facts Opinion You
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I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Dumb Happen People Got
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But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Aware Because Become Experience
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I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Alive Altogether Argue Certain
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People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

About Adoption Began Birth
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

Because Culture Had Never
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