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Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Value
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This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys—unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them back. This isn’t the End. You don’t have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner: God.

Permission World Break Hand
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Cannot Destiny Down Find
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Biased Despised Favor God
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

About Any Basic Basic Elements
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Our past leaders succeeded in removing the liver, kidneys and cardiovascular systems of this country, and paralysed the neurological organs and handed over to Buhari… Nigeria right now, economically and security wise, is in the intensive care unit. If the oxygen is removed, Nigeria will go.

Leader Past Organs Over
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Away Children Extinction Fought
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In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

Been Case Handed Me
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.

Left Handed Easy Very
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People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

Changed Example Give Handed
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

Against Anything Being Business
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

Dream Generally Hate Movies
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Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

Always Presume Enemy Dangerous
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It is said that the 1966 coup that failed was strictly an Igbo coup, but then the irony of history is that it was the late General Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo who single-handedly dismantled the coup in Lagos, while my humble self, another Igbo-man rendered it immobile in the north.

1966 Coup Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi
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Don’t allow quotes to delude you, hard work doesn’t determine success, but it will never leave you empty-handed. So work hard, while you wait for grace to finish up.”

Quotes Delude Hard work Success
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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Fight Get Had Handed
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JUNE 12 : A Day we commemorate the restoration of the Democracy of our great country Nigeria. A day the baton was handed over to a civilian led government.

A day Commemorate The restoration Democracy
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Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.

Apparently You grow To love Handed
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There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

More vindictive More underhanded Little world Big one
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Let's remember that freedom must be fought for, protected and handed over to the next generation.

Let's remember That freedom Fought for Handed over
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