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No longer shall illegal flows of massive sums leave these shores to finance other economies. While our people languish in poverty, we effectively give financial aid to nations that is not justified. I am sick of this. It must stop. The money saved will finance jobs, health care and the provision of social safety net for the needy, weak and vulnerable of our land.

Land Weak Safety Sick
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Cannot Control Himself Man
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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Authority Character Foundation Lawful
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We shall strongly battle another form of evil that is even worse than terrorism – the evil of corruption.

Evil Worse Battle Form
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Better Doing Even I Think
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Baseball Gossip Me National
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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.

Claim Held Persons Girls
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Day New New Day Strength
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Beauty Believe Belongs Dreams
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Average Discuss Events Great
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Cannot Must Things Think
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Begin Cease Contribution Die
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Bag Her Hot Hot Water
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Boko Haram is a typical example of small fires causing large fires. An eccentric and unorthodox preacher with a tiny following was given posthumous fame and following by his extra judicial murder at the hands of the police.

Small Large Tiny Fame
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Ask Fair Not Fair Others
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Choices Die Ends Lives
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The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.

Means Resources Weapons Beat
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Always Individual Obligation Only
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Built Character Courageously Experience
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We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Call Defeats Disasters Energies
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Anyone Become Else Even
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: they offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

Twist Minds Money Promise
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Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Away Correct Enable Get
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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Best Conviction Criticism Honest
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

By-Product A Goal Happiness
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You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

Child Courage Frank Frankness
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Anyway Criticized Feel Heart
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You shall be able to go to bed knowing you are safe… Insurgents would soon know the strength of the collective will of Nigerians.

Strength Safe Able Soon
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Both Cannot Justice Must
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Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

Every Granted Just Mean
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We are going to erect and maintain an efficient, disciplined people – friendly and well-compensated security forces within an over – all security architecture.

Over Erect Maintain Forces
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Afraid Care Does Fear
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If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Any Ask Cannot Favor
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We stand united in our pledge to resist terror in Nigeria – not just through military means but also through the power of opportunity and the hope of a better future for all.

Future Better Stand Power
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Admire Admires Knowing Length
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

Dearly Friend Keep Make
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I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria… God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.

Total Show Stop Inside
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If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Another Any Anyone Back
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition Any Cannot Despicable
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
Actor Entire Entire World Family
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Religion is a personal affair. If you want to visit Mecca or Jerusalem do it with your personal funds. Sponsorship of religious pilgrimages is illegal, unconstitutional and lack of fairness.

Affair Visit Lack Funds
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Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

All Things Cannot Duty Less
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Be The First First First Step I Think
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In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Acknowledge Age Any Believe
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Because they can’t attack our record, they accuse me falsely of ethnic jingoes; they accuse me falsely of religious fundamentalism. Because they cannot attack our record, they accuse us falsely of calling for election violence – when we have only insisted on peace. Even as Head of State, we never imposed Sharia.

Attack Record Accuse Ethnic
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

More Need Vacation Vocation
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Alive Back Curiosity His
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Religion must never be used as an excuse to divide us, oppress others or gain unfair advantage.

Excuse Divide Gain Unfair
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Character Criterion Man Only
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The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!

Among Christian Convert Doctrines
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