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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Children Everything Family Flows
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

About Blogs Care Interesting
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Interests Just Men Opinions
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Absence Entire Nothing Thought
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Error Pursuit Source Truth
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There's only a certain amount of times in my life where I'm going to get to experience every single person directing their energy and focus on you, screaming at you.

Amount Certain Directing Energy
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I want to be remembered as just basically somebody who fought with a lot of passion.

Basically Fought Just Lot
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People want to see me fight all sorts of people out there.

Fight Me Out People
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I enjoy competing, and I love to get out there, and I feel like I could compete with anyone in the world, and it took me a long time to get like that.

Anyone Compete Competing Could
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I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

Anywhere Camping Doing Fine
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When you relate to a disease, you're afraid. When you relate to a person, there is compassion. You see someone that is like you, that could be like you. You can see yourself in that same situation.

Afraid Compassion Could Disease
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In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

About Article Child Felt
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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.

African Aid Appreciate Cultural
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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
About Artistic Love More
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My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Acting Acting Class Basket Bought
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Airplane Almost Back Because
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I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

Bedtime Before Cold Cream
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Blue Orange Without Yellow
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Accomplish Done Lies Loves
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

How Inside Me Service
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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Artistic Feel Love More
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Easy Everywhere Looking Paper
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Around Body Breathe Car
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Activity Arises Challenge Danger
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Awaken Forgiven Going People
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Agent Believe Blade Body
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Acknowledge Balance Between Example
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Arises Awareness Head Identified
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

Anybody Because Deep Down
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

Awakening Deeper Emerges Person
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Nature Doctrine Am Addicted
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Car Centre Display Excellence
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As an adult, I discovered Claritin, and my whole world changed.
Adult Changed Discovered Whole
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For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.

Am How I Am I Can
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Ask Clinical Environment How
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I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.

About Automatic Black Common
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I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

Affect Beasts Different Different Way
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It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.
Advantage Everywhere Happens Nigeria
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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Barack Brings Difference Discomfort
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In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

Africa Been Broad Etc
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Am Aware Better Better Person
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When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

About Also Being Complex
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There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

Aware Constitute Groups Idea
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There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it's the worst thing that ever happened.

Ever Greatest Greatest Thing Happened
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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

Books Made Over Puzzle
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Family Go I Think Least
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There is no forgiveness in nature.

Forgiveness There Nature No
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Consistent Else General Idea
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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Always Being Certain Peace
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Abnormal Any Each Every
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