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Our lives are like these footprints. One day the tide will come. May we live a meaningful life and be blessed with children that will bless the world.

Lives Footprints Meaningful Bless
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Evil thrives when Good people do nothing. When one of us fight for us. We all should fight for him. Together we rise

Evil Good people Nothing Fight
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Everything is possible in Nigeria, only those benefiting from the countries chaos and backwardness will say different.

Nigeria Possible Chaos Backwardness
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

View Each Gain Created
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An illiterate wey beleful no go add any value to anybody.

Illiterate Value Anybody Beleful
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I am part of this country that will keep speaking the obvious ways life can be made better for us all.

Country Keep Speaking Life
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Children Future One Present
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Essence Followed Independently Instinct
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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Greater Means Rate Tends
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Fela sing tire, we don talk tire. We all know the issues. Talk no dey tire you?

Fela Sing Talk Don
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Society Fullness People Create
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

History About Parts Story
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Purpose Art Serve Indict
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Replace Careful End Always
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Democracy Educated Grounded Healthy
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An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Against Side Artist Emperor
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Story Part Work History
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Gender Citizens People Fair
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Neck Around Time Ankle
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Country Leave Without Off
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Centuries Day Enough Just
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Story Far Begin Surface
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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Existing Gains Imagine Journey
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Reality Order Create Art
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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Leaders Because Should Nigeria
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Blunt Refusal Tests Integrity
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

Black Country Ears Else
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

Beauty Fashion Fashion Industry Industry
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Actively Activist Came Father
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

Five Hours Lucky More
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
Age Another Better Commitment
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Repair Year Take Done
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Beautiful Beauty Come Considered
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There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.

Become Coat Designers Differently
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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Children Dawn Elderly Government
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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Turns Often Been Between
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Away Counts Left Take
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Stands Man Every Behind
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Taken Right Include Heard
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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Courts Law Enforce Jails
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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Detour Good Hell Pretty
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Never give in and never give up.
Give Never
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You cant find opportunity in yesterday. Opportunity begins with o, and o exists only in today and tomorrow. Don’t regret the failures of your past. Prepare for the successes in your future. Change your understanding of NO to mean Next Opportunity

Opportunity Yesterday Tomorrow Failures
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Don’t confuse laziness for faith.

Confuse Faith Laziness
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Yes, prayer is the key. But a key is USELESS without a door. Prayer may be the key, but work is the door that the key of prayer opens. Don’t confuse laziness for faith. After you have prayed, look for the work door that your prayer key will open

Prayer Useless Faith Door
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Don't race with the car in front of you. Drive your car at your own pace.
Race Car Drive Pace
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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Compassion Concern Socialism Unfortunate
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Important Keys Healthy body Dynamic
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Problems World Solved Skeptics
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Law Life.stand World Past
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