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An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Afraid Ashamed Errors Find
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Action Ambition Does Fantasy
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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Between Birth Death Move
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Ability Change Courage Happen
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Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Able Allow Being Best
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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Consideration Considerations Deliver Method
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Consumed Death Desire Great
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Accumulate Conception Education Filling
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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Across Carry Emotion Intelligence
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In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Been Being Greater Human
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Agreed Conversation He Must
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I'm Nigerian. I'm African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It's a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.

African Apart Feed Feeling
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I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I wanted to put it on the map.

City Ever Makes Map
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You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

Come Lot Nigeria Only
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Most Americans don't even understand what I'm saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration.

American Even Most Pick
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For me, every project is different, and it serves a different purpose.
Different Every And Project
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I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.

Believe Best Doing Else
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My genre of music is called Afro-Fusion because I fuse different types of music into a ball.

Genre Music Into Ball
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When something happens in Africa, an artist will sing about it and stuff. We have all the records; we have everything. Free Mandela records and all that.

About Africa Artist Everything
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To be honest I don't really feel like I'm a part of the industry. I don't get awards because the powers that be don't really like me. I'm not like everyone else, I won't do what everyone else does.

Awards Because Does Else
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Going onstage - that's my joy. You know like when you're in school and you're just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That's me in life.

Bell Class Going Joy
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If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.

Children Come End Everything
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I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

African Almost Ancestors Being
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

Free Virtue Must Force
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Patience is nobler motion than any deed.

Deed Than Motion Any
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Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.
Pure God Every Thought
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Hope is the parent of Faith.
Faith Hope The Parent
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Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

Beauty Local Deity Like
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Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Happy Good May Make
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Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

Best Virtue Divest Wish
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Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

Bar Guilty God Plead
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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

Lens Nature Soul Angel
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We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

Learn Better Worth Wealth
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

Human Child Whose Love
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Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

Freedom Room But Enlarge
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Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

Trait Correct Them Exhibit
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On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

Globe Between Gross Force
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Like Wake Brain Cell
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Read Know Thing Place
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Don’t give up! I believe in you all. A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Give Person Small How
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If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.

Start Worry Right Along
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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Help Learn Alone Room
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Think and wonder, wonder and think.
Think Wonder And
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It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

Become About What Not
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There are so many things you can learn about, but you’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Shut Learn Many Miss
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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Brain Head Feet Shoe
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You oughta be thankful a whole heaping lot for the people and places you’re lucky you’re not.

Whole People Lucky Lot
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I know up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here on the bottom, we too should have rights!

Know Great Down Right
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You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?
You That Pleasant Are
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