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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Chinua Achebe
Leaders
Always
Elected
Habit
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
Young Jeezy
Any
Attention
Election
Ever
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
Yoko Ono
Arrive
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I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
Robert Mugabe
Agreement
Any
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Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.
Adolf Hitler
Camel
Discovered
Election
Eye
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I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.
Goodluck Jonathan
Commitment
Community
Credible
Election
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
After
Before
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Hunt
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.
Condoleezza Rice
Actually
Always
Child
Could
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Ralph Nader
After
Cycle
Deep
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One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
Jeff Bezos
Complete
Could
More
Much
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I find I have less time for everything. The assembly elections came so soon, and there is still so much work to be done.
Rajiv Gandhi
Assembly
Came
Done
Elections
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The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Democrats
Elections
Fine
Get
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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Konrad Lorenz
Cultures
Determined
Did
Evolution
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
Aaron Eckhart
Actor
Control
Editing
Film
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Young people are the key to this election.
Kinky Friedman
Young
People
The
Key
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Because they can’t attack our record, they accuse me falsely of ethnic jingoes; they accuse me falsely of religious fundamentalism. Because they cannot attack our record, they accuse us falsely of calling for election violence – when we have only insisted on peace. Even as Head of State, we never imposed Sharia.
Muhammadu Buhari
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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.
Kofi Annan
Accept
Advice
Allow
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Appointment
Corrupt
Democracy
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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
Neil Gaiman
Because
Comics
Easy
Election
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken
Articles
By The Time
Candidates
Day
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Patience Jonathan
Political
PDP
Defeat
Never
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
Wats
Elections
Both
Are
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The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.
Charles Schumer
The
Election
Was
Not
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
Indira Gandhi
Wining
Losing
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
Term
Slight
Useful
Natural
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Election rigging, subverting the will of the people is one of the worst crimes. I don’t regret warning election riggers from rigging elections in Rivers state.
Nyesom E. Wike
Election
Subverting
Worst crime
Rivers state
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
Questlove
Agenda
Anyone
Campaign
Clear
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I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Election
Fact
Fair
European
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos
After
Election
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Lose
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Imran Khan
Any
Election
Gain
Got
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
Imran Khan
Bad
Because
Compared
Did
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
Imran Khan
Also
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One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
Imran Khan
Actually
Assume
Democracy
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In Nigeria, a Governor that builds roads is more likely to win re-election, and be loved by his people, than a Governor that invests in Education and Health.
Joe Abah
Nigeria
Governor
Builds
Roads
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I am the custodian of a sacred mandate, freely given, which I cannot surrender unless the people so demand, and it is by virtue of this mandate that I say that the decision of the Federal Military Government to cancel the election of June 12, 1993 is invidious, unpatriotic and capable of causing undue and unnecessary confusion in the country.
MKO Abiola
Custodian
Mandate
Sacred
Freely
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Like the South Africans, we want MAJORITY rule today, that is rule only by those chosen by all the people of Nigeria as a whole in free and fair elections.
MKO Abiola
South African
Majority
Rule
Chosen
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela
Africa
America
Asia
Ask
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
Jack Ma
China
Criticize
Election
Every
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I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
Pete Seeger
Affairs
Am
Answer
Any
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I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.
Pauly Shore
Election
Get
How
Interested
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
Kapil Dev
Administrative
Am
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I shop everywhere from Maxfield to antique stores. I love Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood, and I love vintage. Golyester has the best selection of mint things and dead stock. I collect 1940s to 1970s platform shoes, and that's where I got a few of my best ones.
Kat Von D
1940s
1970s
Alexander
Antique
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I am mindful of the NEXT GENERATION and not the NEXT ELECTIONS
Nana Akufo-Addo
Mindful
Next Generation
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Success should be counted by how many young people go to school and get skills and jobs, and not by how many young people can be marshaled to disrupt elections, or how many broken bones we can count.
Nana Akufo-Addo
Success
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Political elections are not life and death.
Rita Mae Brown
Death
Elections
Life
Life And Death
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.
Yvonne Nelson
Election
Politicians
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Power
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Natural selection is anything but random.
Richard Dawkins
Anything
Natural
Random
Selection
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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
Ron Paul
About
Besides
Conservative
Constitution
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As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
Ron Paul
Back
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Country
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert
About
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