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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

Air Children Country Did
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

Acquainted Among Before Came
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

End Good In The End Journey
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Child Doubt Eradicated Grow
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Always Beautiful Close Day
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Bread Just Like Love
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Above Achieve Compassion Hope
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Adult Believe Child Dead
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Candle Cast Light Shadow
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

All The World Fool Gives Human
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Black Little Live Makes
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Development Further Hope I See
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Alike Another Another Way Before
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Could Crazy Live Person
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Certainly Earn Even Given
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Always Be Grateful Children Grateful
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Compulsion Denies Fantasies Far
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Above Achieve Children Compassion
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Fiction Modern Modern Technology Myth
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

Above Approve Commit Die
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Artist Cannot Deals Does
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

About Am Artist Atheist
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Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Artists Baby Companions Free
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

About Anymore Because Classes
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Activism Demonstration I Write Personal
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Fiction Fiction Writer I Write Novels
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I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

Action Ever Expect Get
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Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Being Cool Doing Else
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

About Close Could Even
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From the home, we graduate to the community, then to the local government, then to the state and to the federal.

Home State Local Federal
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The labour is Me and I am the labour, one thing you cannot take from me is that; I have opened this government for you to run.

Run Take Labour One
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I am the first governor in Nigeria that give details of allocation to workers to decide on. We have been doing that since I came.

Decide Since First Details
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I want the representative of the press to always attend our Federal Allocation Committee (FAC) meetings. That shows how transparent I run this government.

Press Always Show Run
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When you have nothing to hide, then you'll have nothing to fear.
Hide Fear Nothing
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All partakers of FAC allocation attend that meeting once a month. There you take decision, I sign it for you.

Sign Attend Meeting Month
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As a people, we have peculiarities, and we must identify them instead of jamborees.

Person Identify Instead Must
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Why most leaders of this country have failed in the fight against corruption since 1999 is because they are corrupt themselves.

Fight Failed Country Since
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The first step that should be taken in fighting the corruption war is not to fight corruption with a political face.

Face First Taken Step
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I told workers, no governor or public office holder can steal without the cooperation of a civil worker.

Public Civil Holder Steal
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We don't have the experience on how to put papers right. We don't write papers, all we do is approve papers.

Approve Papers Right Write
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If a leader is leading a country to fight corruption, he must start from his own base. He must be ready and willing to put his home right.

Home Start Base Ready
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Leaders can only lead right by example, not by propaganda. I take exception.

Lead Example Take Right
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I hate corruption. I don't do things because of lip-service; I am a blunt Nigerian.

Blunt Things Hate Nigerian
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I have declared my asset long time ago, I have submitted all the necessary papers, I know the procedure.

Asset Time Papers Long
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One thing I want you all to realise today is this... I love President Muhammadu Buhari, people think I hate him but I don't. Democracy is founded on opposition.

Realise Today Hate People
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Opposition will keep the government of the day on their toes to do the right thing.

Right Keep Day Toes
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The law has its process, there are agencies that takes care of corruption, we should allow them do their duty without preempting them.

Duty Process Care Allow
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What people don't know about me is that I'm a pretty good businesswoman. Yes, I do this little ol' game show, but I know the show isn't going to last forever, so I've gone into different ventures. But I don't want to sound like I'm bragging.

About Bragging Businesswoman Different
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A civil servant who absconds from work, yet collect his salary, is another civil servant not the one to process his payment?

Civil Work Process Servant
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Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

Ambition First Child Had
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