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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.

Two ways People Are controlled Frighten
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I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

See myself Old man Unqualified teacher Important thing
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

An educated Healthy Confident nation Harder
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You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

You have Build support Around causes Uniting
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

The crisis Power Occasion Fundamental change
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I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world,because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

Democracy Most revolutionary thing World Have power
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Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.
Hope Fuel Progress Fear
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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.

Think Understand Democratic process Works
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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

Final victory Final defeat Same battle Be fought
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The cardinal principle upon which our University is founded is to impart knowledge and learning to men and women of all races without any distinction on the grounds of race, religious, or political beliefs.

Cardinal principle University Founded Distinction
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Here in Northern Nigeria, we have People of many different races, tribes and religion who are knit together to common history, common interest and common ideas, the things that unite us are stronger than the things that divide us.

Northern Nigeria Different races Tribes Common history
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

I have Ever loved Cool baptisms Silent water
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

You enter Positions Trust Power
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Really Nothing more To say Except why
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.

Anger Better Reality Presence
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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Political correctness Debate The power Define
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There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

The center Silence Not eternity Death
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

Mistook violence For passion Recklessness Freedom
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

Human Wish Permanent happiness Human imagination
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No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

No matter How hard Ignore it Mind
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When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Happy Difference Stay alive
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And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried

Get you My mind God knows How hard
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Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

Dating Get older Trusting Get back
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And i can't get you out of my head, how in the world will i begin to let you walk right out my life and blow my heart away?
You out My head World Walk
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I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.

Learned Believe Myself Comfortable
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One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.

Favorite things Seeing Two people Really old
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When I'm single, I'm one guy, and when I'm in a relationship I'm totally another. They're both a good time.

Single Relationship Good time
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It's so funny because no matter what you say, fans only read and hear what they want.

So funny No matter You say Fans
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I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Have To see Thing Thousand times
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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

Young man So strong So certain So lost
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Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.

Toil on Loose heart Hope Dismay
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

In sleep All naked Alone United
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The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Mountains His masters Cup Reality
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Loneliness Central Inevitable experience Every man
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Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Man Born To live Die
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Whole conviction My life Rest upon Belief
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In any struggle, it is of fundamental importance to define clearly who we are, and who is the enemy

Struggle Fundamental Importance The enemy
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We know that all the African peoples are our brothers. Our struggle is their struggle. Every drop of blood that falls in our countries falls also from the body and heart of our brothers, these African peoples.

African people Struggle Blood Body
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Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

Success Metaphysical experience Bigger scale
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbor, your village and beyond.

Give Life Your children Last biscuit
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All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Your life Truth Permanent blur Being ambushed
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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

Human right Simply endorse Life Moral value
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I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I'm hopeless Looking Into myself See
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

You associate Older people Do enjoy Their lives
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The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say

The truth Compound Half truths Never reach
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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

People Not love Fellow man Hate people
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When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

Public profession Stop doing People think Crazy
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Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

Be prepared Be careful Good deeds No one
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We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

Position Waking up Choice Make
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It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together,and I knew it.
Million Little things Added them Were supposed
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