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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

There Two Primary Choices
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Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Determination Gives Resolves Keep
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Become Break Comfort Comfort Zone
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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Almost Another Approach Dependent
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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Achieve Apply Direct Effort
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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Winners Ability Step Back
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The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

First Process Argument Older
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We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

Around Become Belongs Commonwealth
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My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.

Brothers Context Diversity Even
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In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

Crossed Day Early Every
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We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is created for private investment, both within and direct foreign investment. So jobs will be created. That is my dream for Nigeria.

Basic Both Created Direct
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Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.

Countries Developed Doctor Engineer
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We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
Bring Defeated Justice Known
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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.

Commitment Community Credible Election
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All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.

Age Based Basic Convictions
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I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

Lyrics Tune Interpret I
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If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Err Liberty Freedom Side
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The stronger the boat of (democracy), the more it is able to meet the challenges of its voyage and deliver on its promise to citizens

Boat Promise Deliver Citizens
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The air of freedom we breathe today is the result of the sacrifices of thousands of pro-democracy activists, human rights campaigners and others who organised as civil society.

Society Freedom Breathe Civil
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In the comfort of our offices, let us not forget that majority of our people live below the poverty line.

Comfort Line Majority Forget
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Any society or country that closes the vital valves of its democratic space cannot develop at a reasonable pace.

Country Democratic Develop Pace
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Where there is no opportunity for one man one vote, there will be no accountability and no responsibility.

Vote Opportunity Responsibility Man
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I congratulate the candidates of the other political parties. I regard them not as opponents but as partners.

Regard Parties Partner Opponent
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In presenting myself for service, I make no pretense that I have a magic wand that will solve all of Nigeria’s problems or that I am the most intelligent Nigerian.

Service Pretense Magic Solve
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I have come to launch a campaign of ideas, not one of calumny. I have come to preach love, not hate. I have come to break you away from divisive tendencies of the past which have slowed our drive to true nationhood. I have no enemies to fight. You are all my friends and we share a common destiny.

Destiny Friend Share Common
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I believe in the politics of give and take.
Take Believe Give Politics
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We are all Nigerians and I will be a President to all. This is the new dawn we crave.
Crave Dawn Nigerians New
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Successful Life Worldly Blessing
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
Natural Key Fashion Look
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When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

Decision Good Smart Preparation
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
Always Ball Car Never
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The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

Fidelity Dog Precious Gift
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

Attention Retire Win Command
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Soccer Player Over Advantage
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
Cheap God Paradise First
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Obedience Thanks Blessing God
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Affliction African Communities Fault
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When Allah decides a matter, it is done.

Allah Decides Matter Done
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Blunder Correct Democracy Mistake
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Aspire Bring Business Each
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

Apology Choice Chose Even
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

Afford Cannot Dimension Forces
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Analyst Authority Believe Event
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Complex Foundation Freedom Lay
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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Course Destination Distance Historical
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Across Ages Books Civilization
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Attributes Change Character Conviction
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

Approach Development Economic Focused
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Advanced Any Country Democracy
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Advances Book Date Enduring
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