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Innovation is the only way to win.

Innovation Win Way Creative
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Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Whether Think Usually Right
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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Noise Opinion Drown Inner
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Great Surprise Afraid Makes
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Everything Worry Work Best
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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Cutting Shaving Business Competition
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Man World Reserve Experience
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Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Follow Heart Intuition Become
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Remember Against Airplane Wind
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Morning Revolution System Believe
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Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Right Believe Can Wether
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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Dream Ought Think Night
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There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Man Than Thinks Living
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Capacity Resources Some About
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Problems Little There Big
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Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Hit Brick Head Convinced
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Spend Energy Problems Trying
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Money Betterment Life Capital
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Nigeria confuses kids by telling them to be patriotic irrespective of ethnicity only to use state of origin as admission criteria in schools.

Confuse Patriotic Origin State
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For Nigeria to make meaningful progress, our leaders have to be more interested in the price of leadership than in the perks of leadership.

Progress Leader Price Perk
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We should think twice before washing our dirty linen before the world. It doesn’t just reduce our opponents. It also reduces us to the world.

World Reduce Dirty Twice
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Its mental slavery to allow foreign media dictate what we think about Nigeria & her institutions. They cant love Nigeria more than Nigerians

Mental Media Dictate Love
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Whatever foreign activists say, we must appreciate our military. When push comes to shove, they are the only folks defending us from terror.

Push Shove Terror Military
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Dont wait til Ramadan or Christmas to give food to the poor in your village. Give them education and they will learn how to feed themselves.

Learn Poor Give Feed
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The problem with Nigeria isn’t people, its the structure! If we don’t fix our structure, even an angel will have challenges leading Nigeria.

Fix People Problem Leading
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I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

Know Time Consequences Correct
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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

Laziness Breeds Humors Blood
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Nigeria needs politicians for whom politics is a vocation not an occupation, who make money from their businesses not the public treasury.

Public Politics Vocation Money
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The more you attack your predecessor the higher the bar is set for you. Know how slippery a road is before knocking those who slipped on it.

Attack Higher Road Bar
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Act Book Bring Creative
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Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Beautiful Great Magic Potential
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Drinking I Evils Read
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Art Become Hide Magic
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Attention Away Both Common
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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Always Beautiful Because Best
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Authentic Capacity Create Endure
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Artist Failure Fewer Gesture
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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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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Africa Come Future About
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Agreement Either Even Felt
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Absolutely Best Reader Writer
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I'm going to show the world that I'm not a tyrant, much less a devil.

Show Tyrant Much World
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Begin Create Imagine Live
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beginning Begin Circle Come
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Good Hearing People Reason
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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

Act Complete Difficult Emerges
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