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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Write Ability Endowed Nature
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And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become … all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings.

Human Animal Race Cruel
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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Things Own Like Inanimate
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I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.

About Connect Earth Peace
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Freedom is control in your own life.
Control Freedom Life Own
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I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

Because Control Like No-One
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Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

Control Freedom Important Learning
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It is more important to secure human lives than to secure an economy.

Important Secure Human Lives
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Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

About Anybody Concerned Gay
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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Actually Artists Controversy Deal
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People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third.

First Even Problem People
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Actions must have consequences.

Must Action Consequence Action
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As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

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.

Economy Debt Evil Review
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Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

God Children Greater World
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I will walk away from the tendency to condemn the level of development of our Country.

Walk Condemn Level Away
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It is our responsibility to continue to add value whenever we find ourselves in a privileged position.

Position Value Continue Find
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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.

Process Sign Lawyer Fix
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. In public life I have remained loyal to causes that I have signed on to. Nobody can fairly accuse me of giving my word and going back on my word. I always pray that my loyalty will not be tested.

Concept Strange Remain Loyalty
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Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Prayer Concrete Home God
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Healing Friend Silent Grief
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To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Minister Precise Powerlessness Seldom
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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Aim Change Conditions Constantly
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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.

Tasks Unite Create Conflict
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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.

Production-Oriented Occupation Identifying Endanger
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Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Christian Leadership Relationship People
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

Pray God Conversation Kick
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.

Business Destiny Idea Status
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To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

Travel Downward Road Constantly
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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.

Masterpiece Constant Motion Improve
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For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

Jesus Countries Imposed Dominated
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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.

Prayer Source Content Goal
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Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Efforts Disconnet Suffering Hurt
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

Confident Sexy Woman Guys
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Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Solitude Profound Deeper Anger
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The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Man VictimSlowly Prevent Consistently
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I love riding, even if it’s just my Vespa. You just zip and do your thing. I find there’s a different awareness when I ride; it connects me to my senses and to God.

Ride Aware Connect Senses
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Bound Dollar Little Give
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Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Follow Heart Intuition Become
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Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Hit Brick Head Convinced
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Nigeria confuses kids by telling them to be patriotic irrespective of ethnicity only to use state of origin as admission criteria in schools.

Confuse Patriotic Origin State
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I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

Know Time Consequences Correct
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Patience is a conquering virtue.

Patience Conquering Virtue
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beginning Begin Circle Come
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Courage Follow Heart Intuition
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Learn continually. There’s always “one more thing” to learn.
Learn Continually More Thing
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Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.

Voice Head Control Brain
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I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Topic Left Learning Person
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