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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Above Achieve Children Compassion
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

Above Approve Commit Die
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Artist Cannot Deals Does
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

About Am Artist Atheist
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

About Anymore Because Classes
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Activism Demonstration I Write Personal
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I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

Action Ever Expect Get
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

About Close Could Even
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It is Ekiti first before Nigeria. Every politics is local, every governance starts from the home.

First Home Local Starts
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From the home, we graduate to the community, then to the local government, then to the state and to the federal.

Home State Local Federal
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I am the first governor in Nigeria that give details of allocation to workers to decide on. We have been doing that since I came.

Decide Since First Details
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I want the representative of the press to always attend our Federal Allocation Committee (FAC) meetings. That shows how transparent I run this government.

Press Always Show Run
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All partakers of FAC allocation attend that meeting once a month. There you take decision, I sign it for you.

Sign Attend Meeting Month
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The first step that should be taken in fighting the corruption war is not to fight corruption with a political face.

Face First Taken Step
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I told workers, no governor or public office holder can steal without the cooperation of a civil worker.

Public Civil Holder Steal
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We don't have the experience on how to put papers right. We don't write papers, all we do is approve papers.

Approve Papers Right Write
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I have declared my asset long time ago, I have submitted all the necessary papers, I know the procedure.

Asset Time Papers Long
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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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The law has its process, there are agencies that takes care of corruption, we should allow them do their duty without preempting them.

Duty Process Care Allow
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A civil servant who absconds from work, yet collect his salary, is another civil servant not the one to process his payment?

Civil Work Process Servant
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All that governors do is to approve the money, it is civil servants that pay civil servants.

Approve Civil Money Pay
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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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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

Also Arrogant Attractive Intelligent
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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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There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

Any Dislikes Feminism Think
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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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God be with you. I did not put myself here, you all put me here.

Put Myself God You
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

About Being Best Convinced
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Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

Animal Chased King Most
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I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

About Diets Exercise Girly
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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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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

Because Death Died Each
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Cultivate Faith Good Harmony
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I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.
Judged Like Makes Me
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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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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

Deal Energy Fear Great
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Amount Break Hearts Including
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Confidence Courteous Few Give
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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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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Besides His Just Matter
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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Abuse Deprive Found Jealousy
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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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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Conduct Drawn Ground Hereafter
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Army Discipline Esteem Formidable
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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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Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

After Big Corners Days
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Connected Duty Happiness Moral
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

Eating Go Grab Healthy
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I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.

Afraid Also Friends Fun
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