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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Age All Things Happen Man
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Enter Ever Fire Ideas
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
Interested May Strategy You
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Case Mastered Most Noticed
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Burning Evidence Just Life
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Discussion Great Had Made
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Absence Caress Done Dreams
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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

Price Pay Valuable Time
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Cases England European Last
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Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Abuse Comrade Everyone Occasion
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Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

Adventures Events Laws Moral
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

About Bad Feet Get
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The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

Before Changes Classes Determined
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Children Flesh Happens Like
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The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

Approval Cannot Class Endure
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Consider Feel I Feel I Think
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Ally Battle Body Her
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When I started music, I did not know my songs would become evergreen.

Started music Songs Evergreen
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Acute Be True Compassion Despair
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Catastrophe Clinical Conversations Days
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I believe that my songs have to do with peace and happiness.

Believe Songs Peace Happiness
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I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.
Back Few Found Had
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No matter where we go, we are still Nigerians, and nobody will take that from us.

No matter We go Nobody Take
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I love to hold on to the culture.

Love Hold Culture
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Young ones must have the fear of God in them, they must respect themselves and others, they must respect their profession, they must have the love of God, and obey the laws of the land. They mustn’t be involved in criminal activities that would stain their family name, and society.

Young ones Fear God Respect themselves
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I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

Before Blood Breath Caused
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I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

Gets How How Much I Think
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There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

So much Can do Chance Nothing
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Beyond Condition Constitution Covenant
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I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

Anyone Boxing Bullied Camp
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.

I think Women Very scared Celebrate
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

I learned Career Things Power over
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Act Like Soon Way
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People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

Any Artist Ask Being
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Last Refuge Sense Sleeping
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It's important to have a life outside the band.

Band Important Life Outside
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Am Does Face I Am
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Asking Barely Child He
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A lot of times, we think we have to do it alone so we don’t appear weak, but it’s totally okay to ask for help

Times Think Appear weak Help
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Activity Any Delicious Disagreeable
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I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now... being a bit wilder maybe!

Being Better Bit Changed
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
Amazing Best Crowd Feeling
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As young people, you do not need permission to participate. You must occupy your space because there is no governance without citizen engagement and youth-led accountability.

Young people Permission Occupy Your space
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We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

Always Amazing Band Bit
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When injustice is perceived, young people look upon violent groups as legitimate fighters, not perpetrators of violence.

Injustice Young people Violent groups
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I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

Actually Boy Coming Ed Sheeran
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Africa has the wealth to invest and the clearest path to reducing inequality is investing in African youth, our most important asset.

Wealth Invest Reducing inequality Youth
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It is my duty to make sure that young people hold governments accountable for the implementation of the frameworks they signed up for

My duty Young people Governments Accountable
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When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

Bit Gets Idea More
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I will always push for progressive, more inclusive and more empowered positions for young people across Africa.

Always Push Progressive Inclusive
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