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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Add Alas Contentment Grandeur
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Bread Just Just As Much Light
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Brains Capable Farthest Happiness
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Cruel Expected Gentleness Learned
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
Enjoy Going Least Something
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Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

No-One Prepared Some Some Things
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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We see things as we are, not as they are.

See Things We see They
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Artist Artwork Care Chance
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Revolutions are always verbose.
Always Are Always Revolutions
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Back Character Conditions Defined
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Absolute Circumstances Conduct Depends
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Absence Caress Done Dreams
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The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

Approval Cannot Class Endure
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No matter where we go, we are still Nigerians, and nobody will take that from us.

No matter We go Nobody Take
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.

I think Women Very scared Celebrate
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

I learned Career Things Power over
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Asking Barely Child He
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We clearly live in an era where we have the most unequal societies of all time. The rich are becoming richer, the poor are becoming poorer.

Clearly live Societies Rich
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We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

Always Amazing Band Bit
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Africa has the wealth to invest and the clearest path to reducing inequality is investing in African youth, our most important asset.

Wealth Invest Reducing inequality Youth
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I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

Be Careful Both Careful Drink
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Most of the big companies are owned by men; let’s support each other as women so that we can also achieve such business success. This will not come easily, but it’s a journey we need to embark on now.

Big companies Support Women Achieve
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On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It's not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.

American Bash Best Bit
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Aim high and stay focused on your goals. We are not a wealthy country but we’ve built a national airline, a national broadband fiber optic infrastructure with 4GLTE connectivity.

Aim high Focused Goals Wealthy
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Nigeria will NEVER be a FAILED nation…Yes, we are not getting it right but with the mindset of prosperity, NIGERIANS will get there!!!

Never Failed nation Right Mindset
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The mighty ones are active, the lazy ones are passive…both mighty and lazy ones are all important. No one is useless in this life.

Mighty ones Lazy Passive All important
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Any Bullets Compared Dungeons
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Amused Amusement Because Friends
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Around Genuine Hanging Known
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Always Close Closed Down
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The sun Moon Stars Disappeared
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Pain Death Part of Life
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Great men Truly obscene Dared
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I will do everything I can to ensure that Malagasy are lifted out of poverty

Everything Poverty Lifted Malagasy
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What is important is the victory of the people, not of a candidate. We must unite for the good of Madagascar’s people, and we are going to succeed.

Victory Candidate Madagascar Succeed
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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

According Better Easier Impression
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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Always Blend Burn Clear
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Men Know themselves Longer fools Wisdom
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Romantic Embrace Music Prayer
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Admired Also Could He
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

In philosophy Attainment Goal Matters
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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Men Women Understand Nature
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A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

Achievements Action Basic Become
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Parent Train Children Equal importance
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I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

Album Another Area Believe
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People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Complicated People Masks Society
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Like People Ready Refuse
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