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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.

African Aid Appreciate Cultural
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Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn't end.

Causes End Kidnapped Kidnapping
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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

Alive Because Close Devastating
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Been Evil Love Money
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Always I Love I Think Idol
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My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Acting Acting Class Basket Bought
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

Fast Fun Grow Grow Up
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

Guy Look Makeup Pretty Said
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Advice Give Kids Percent
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

How Inside Me Service
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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Always Brings Difficulties Energy
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

Confidence Doing Extra Give
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Around Body Breathe Car
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Agent Believe Blade Body
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Arises Awareness Head Identified
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Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

Alive Amazing Energy Exercise
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Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Dimension Heaven Instead Jesus
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Case Confident Constantly Defense
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Accessible Around Cities Clusters
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Car Centre Display Excellence
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Affects Always Annihilation Around
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Being Body Deep Dependent
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America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

America Is Decidedly Racial
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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Barack Brings Difference Discomfort
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In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

Africa Been Broad Etc
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Being Better Comfort Comfort Zone
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There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

Aware Constitute Groups Idea
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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

Afraid Africa African China
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It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

How I Can Impact Individual
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Family Go I Think Least
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Consistent Else General Idea
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Describe Else Idea Mad
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Acid Distance Like Memories
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

About Before Crime Current
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

Actor Come Entire Free
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

Confident Dead Fall Happen
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Came Day Hiding High
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Arts Encouraged Had Helped
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

1960s Am Both Civil
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I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

Acting After Because Care
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

American Experiences Individuals Parents
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Anything Became Did Die
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I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Badly Black Does Doing
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Former Human Infinite Stupidity
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Beauty Circle Compassion Creatures
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

About Beauty Beholder Dared
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You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Along Better Class Funny
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I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.'

Always Girl Need Said
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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Children Everybody Just Marriage
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