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As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.
Babatunde Fashola
Price
Never
Fixed
Cheque
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The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.
Babatunde Fashola
Economy
Debt
Evil
Review
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For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.
Babatunde Fashola
Rob
Citizen
That
Every
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
Babatunde Fashola
Abuse
Plus
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Our Work in Lagos was a Team Effort, I won’t appropriate personal responsibility for the Good Work
Babatunde Fashola
Good
Team
Work
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My attitude was to see criminals as my competitor and with competitions ,my desire was to win.
Babatunde Fashola
Win
Desire
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Attitude
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Before we increase taxes, we must optimize the capacity to get that which is in the place.
Babatunde Fashola
Increase
Place
Capacity
Before
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I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus Christ
Rich
Kingdom
Heaven
Man
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Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
Jesus Christ
Stone
Cast
Among
She
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I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
Jesus Christ
Dead
Lives
Behold
Forevermore
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The grass is greener when you water the ground. that's what I found when I took the the ride.
Adekunle Gold
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Water
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The only training I have is that of a lawyer. I don’t fix contract prices, I don’t sign cheques, non of my commissioners signs cheques. We have a process that was followed.
Babatunde Fashola
Process
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Lawyer
Fix
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Our infrastructure is behind, and if we don't invest money in infrastructure, we can't move forward. We can't borrow to pay salaries or fuel generators, we must borrow to pay for our Infrastructures.
Babatunde Fashola
Behind
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Move
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So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Jesus Christ
Ask
Search
Find
Given
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All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus Christ
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Adultery
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Commit
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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
Jesus Christ
Father
Love
So
You
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If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Jesus Christ
Perfect
Heaven
Give
Poor
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Jesus Christ
Authority
Earth
Given
Heaven
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Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Jesus Christ
Give
Beg
Takes
Away
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If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius Caesar
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Power
Seize
Observed
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The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
Henri Nouwen
Love
Acknwoledge
Gratitude
Explicit
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.
Henri Nouwen
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Powerless
Gaints
Paradox
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I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.
Henri Nouwen
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Crisis
Stronger
Journey
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Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.
Henri Nouwen
Blessing
Ministers
Weakness
Serve
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
Advice
Wounds
Rather
Tender
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The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
Henri Nouwen
Success
Victimized
Culture
Corporation
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One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.
Henri Nouwen
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Create
Conflict
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When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
Henri Nouwen
Cling
Defend
Freely
Shared
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In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.
Henri Nouwen
Production-Oriented
Occupation
Identifying
Endanger
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Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.
Henri Nouwen
People
Money
Opportunity
Resources
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
Children
Code
Diminished
Exchange
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
Communication
Inventions
Language
Mass
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Henri Nouwen
Present
God
Joyful
Painful
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney
Book
Island
More
Pirate
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney
Caricatures
Cartoon
Cartoon Characters
Characters
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When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
Henri Nouwen
Recognize
Pray
Festive
Moments
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Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.
Henri Nouwen
Inclination
Show
Reveal
Trembling
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One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.
Henri Nouwen
People
Willing
Needs
Allows
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The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.
Henri Nouwen
Christain
Completely
Irrelevant
Nothing
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As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.
Henri Nouwen
Peacemaker
Divine
Gift
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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.
Henri Nouwen
Community
Wounded
People
Broken
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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.
Henri Nouwen
People
Phosphorized
Untouched
Instead
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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
Queen Latifah
Masterpiece
Constant
Motion
Improve
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The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
Enemies
Real
Unalterable
Unpredictable
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Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
Henri Nouwen
Prayer
Source
Content
Goal
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I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.
Queen Latifah
Crown
Rule
World
Treat
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Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.
Henri Nouwen
Holds
Surprise
Hearts
Friends
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Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
Henri Nouwen
Perhaps
Nothing
Moments
Spiritual
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford
Things
Own
Angle
Point
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As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Henry Ford
Advance
Limits
Abilities
Learn
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