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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Chinua Achebe
Clever
White
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Before you give up, think of the reason you held on so long.
Drake
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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.
Ibrahim Babangida
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Cannot
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Always
Belief
Better
Better Life
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B. R. Ambedkar
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel
Always
World
Strong
Down
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It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Always
Anybody
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
Desmond Tutu
Being
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Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
St. Jerome
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Lord
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Eldridge Cleaver
Commands
Due
Given
Itself
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver
Become
Denied
He
Most
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To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture--a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.
Hudson Taylor
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
Elie Wiesel
Accountable
Alone
Beings
Enough
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But we cannot claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents.
Muhammadu Buhari
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Held
Persons
Girls
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Surer
Decay
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Religion
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther
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Held
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale
Empty
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Back
Heart
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
Bear Grylls
About
Being
Christianity
Faith
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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers
Meets
Order
Learning
Directly
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I remember playing a college in Michigan, and they all held up their hand to show me where they live, which made me wonder what weird alien cult I had entered.
Iliza Shlesinger
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What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain.
Wallace Stegner
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Moliere
Also
Held
Only
Responsible
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When petrol went to N145 under PMB, Nigerians held their peace, unlike when they shut the country in 2012. The difference is trust. Simple
Femi Adesina
Petrol
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Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually build to that image created within our own mental being.
Edgar Cayce
Mind
Builder
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Reality
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In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.
Eduardo Galeano
World
Powerful
Subjugated
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Nancy Pelosi
American
Been
Has-Been
Much
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The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Certainty
Clearly
Clumsy
Divine
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I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
Georg Cantor
Realize
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I just finished participating in a virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council, the first ever after the last one held on March 18th, 2020. Subsequent meetings were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Festus Keyamo
Finished
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Pandemic
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The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
George Muller
Vigor
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Bible
Thought
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As artists, we are blessed to be able to make money but, on the same note, are held accountable for our federal tax obligations just like everyone else.
Rick Ross
Able
Accountable
Artists
Blessed
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Marianne Williamson
Back
Extending
Held
InThePast
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I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.
Marie Curie
Almost
Always
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake
Robert Browning
Back
Baffled
Better
Break
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I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.
Liam Payne
Before
Blood
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
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Belief
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Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
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The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.
Rollo May
About
Always
Answer
Become
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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Ron Paul
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Esteem
Free
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I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.
James Brown
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Been
Held
Know
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The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
Ron Chernow
1970s
Assets
Because
Before
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Success is won by those who believe in winning and then prepare for that moment. Many want to win, but how many prepare? That is the big difference. A sound value system held water then, holds water today, and will hold water in the future
Herb Brooks
Success
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Herbert Hoover
Law
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Government officials
An end
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!
Roseanne Barr
American
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.
James Taylor
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Commonly
Experience
Fire
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Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.
Edward Everett
Freedom
Come quickly
Robes
Peace
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Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.
Thomas More
Some men
Snared
Beauty alone
By virtue
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Co-operation is difficult, if trust is withheld.
Yahaya Bello
Cooperation
Difficult
Trust
Withheld
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Bertolt Brecht
Art
A mirror
Reality
Hammer
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It is necessary that we put records in their correct perspective concerning the recent meeting held by the National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, which has, unfortunately drawn criticism due to lack of understanding.
Garba Shehu
Necessary
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