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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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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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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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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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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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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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All that governors do is to approve the money, it is civil servants that pay civil servants.

Approve Civil Money Pay
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If we are ready to fight corruption, then let's sit tight about it and do away with politics.

Ready Away Fight Tight
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Adventurous Age Dad Formative
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

Am Dogs Girl Her
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

Deal Energy Fear Great
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Amount Break Hearts Including
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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

Boyfriend Friend Him Just
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

Act Around Guys Know
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

Eating Go Grab Healthy
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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Basis Citizen Defense Down
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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Abandon Constitution Guide Never
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Darkness Drive Hate Light
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Accomplished Always Anything Anywhere
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
Doodle Know Only Other
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

After Again Any Being
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

Armed Deal Nothing Only
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Dog Fool Great He
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Hate Lying Mind
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

About Ask Doubt Guide
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Awards don't really mean much.
Awards Mean Much Really
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The time is always right to do what is right.

Always Right Time
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Doing Life Most Others
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Faith First Staircase Step
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Bent Change Continuous Freedom
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Better Dead Job Life
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Bogged Breadth Devoid Down
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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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We like lists because we don't want to die.
Because Die Like Lists
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Country Evaluate Everybody Fact
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Demanded Freedom Given Never
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Doing End Ghosts Having
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Attention Difficult Down Net
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

First Good Happen Help
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Cast Everything See Shadow
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

Internet People Television Watch
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Acceptance Art Done Favor
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Down Find Full Life
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Anticipation Except Future Memory
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