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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
I Write Paid Pay Want
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Nigeria will NEVER be a FAILED nation…Yes, we are not getting it right but with the mindset of prosperity, NIGERIANS will get there!!!

Never Failed nation Right Mindset
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Always Considered Explore Minor
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Fun Guitar More Much
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics
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Negative consideration of every politician is not a better approach…

Negative consideration Politician
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I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

Back Come Daughter Dog
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The mighty ones are active, the lazy ones are passive…both mighty and lazy ones are all important. No one is useless in this life.

Mighty ones Lazy Passive All important
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Any Bullets Compared Dungeons
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We don’t have to discriminate against people wherever they reside in the country. Once you’re a citizen of this country, you’re qualified, you’re eligible, you’re free under the law to decide to settle in any party of the country and go about your businesses without fear of molestation.

Discriminate Against people Country
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Amused Amusement Because Friends
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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Actually Attention Been Has-Been
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Am Get I Am Older
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Came Go Good Knew
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Always Call Certain Dangerous
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Around Genuine Hanging Known
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And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Either Great Guitar Had
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This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Activity Challenging Get Humans
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Always Close Closed Down
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

Heart Man Men Most
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The sun Moon Stars Disappeared
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Charm Power Effect work Employing
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Nothing War Achieved Better
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Art Living Fine mingling Letting go
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Pain Death Part of Life
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Call morals Simply blind Word Command
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Great men Truly obscene Dared
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Sex lies Life Never Learn
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Man lives by imagination.
Man Lives Imagination
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Greatest task Civilization Machines Slaves
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Jealousy Dragon Slays love Alive
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Dancing Moving Most beautiful Arts
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution

All civilization Time Volcano Revolution
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The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

Malagasy Liberty Own future Choose
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I will do everything I can to ensure that Malagasy are lifted out of poverty

Everything Poverty Lifted Malagasy
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My only enemy, your only enemy, our only enemy is poverty
Only enemy My only Poverty
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What is important is the victory of the people, not of a candidate. We must unite for the good of Madagascar’s people, and we are going to succeed.

Victory Candidate Madagascar Succeed
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I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Accept I cannot Malagasy Civil war
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In order to tackle malnutrition, it is essential to ensure people’s access to adequate food, appropriate health services, clean water and sanitation.

Malnutrition Adequate food Health Clean water
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The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Power State Violence Overthrows
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War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

War Jungle Bush-clearing Thicker
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Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition Never Comes to an end
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The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Inability Power Voices Change
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The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

Moment Protected Individual Society
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The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways - through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Drama Climax Two ways Terrorism
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Artist Darkness Duty Hearts
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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Accomplished Art Enthusiasm Nothing
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Determined Ensemble Every First
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