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And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

Alienate Another Become Church
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Blocked Come Concentrating Out
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Abuse Arbitrary Easily Established
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Adolescent Africa Because Books
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Centuries Each English French
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Dew Flash Human Life
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Actor Business Crazy Dead
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Advice Give Kids Percent
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Car Centre Display Excellence
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
21st Century Adult Century Learning
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I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Accent Latin Mean Mexican
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I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Bearing Period Demeanor Great
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Innocent Liar Most Tool
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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Noses People Scent Small
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I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.

Hands Project Associated With
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I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.

Accent Again America Blocking
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Being Central Dead Enjoy
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Concentrated Form Thinking Writing
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Being Central Century Condition
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Concentrate Essential Important Most
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Become Give God Grown
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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Become Century Disintegration Family
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I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

Affects Been Causes Condition
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

Always Any Around Because
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Trust is central to an economy that works.
Central Economy Trust Works
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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Acting Attention Center Even
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Environmentalism
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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Believe Believes Effective Everyone
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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

Ocean Sea Water
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Big Billion Design Efficiency
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In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Came Camps Concentration Die
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We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

Beauty Besides Concentrate Human
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I'm learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don't have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.

Heart Life Run World
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Civilized Civilized Society Doubtful Eccentricity
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

Cent Did Ever Every
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If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.

Accumulate Break Caught Financial
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All the money voted for road constructions were swindled, eaten. Many of them became millionaires, billionaires in Naira, in Dollars, in Pounds, in Euro. Billionaires, when they have no workshop, no business centre. Somebody who has nothing he’s doing, yet he’s a billionaire, because he’s a politician.

Centre Road Money Somebody
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Concentrated Energy Essence Real
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Autumn Flowers Fruits He
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Always Been Concentrated Enemy
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We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Abroad Innocent Innocents Play
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I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

Always Any Any Other Way Been
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Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Ascent Crucial Man Origin
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Accent Along American American Accent
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

Almost Another Any Asking
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More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven't been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria has been an oil producing country, therefore, they should sit and do nothing, and get housing, healthcare, education free.

Free Percent Below Country
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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Built Center Largest Shopping
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Been Deepest Ever Highest
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

Accent Any Buy Cosmetic
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But we cannot claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents.

Claim Held Persons Girls
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