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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
Always Did Drink Like
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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Affairs Avoided Been Both
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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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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Average Discuss Events Great
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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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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Both Cannot Justice Must
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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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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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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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Whatever one’s views are, Nigerians must thank former President Jonathan for not digging-in in the face of defeat and thereby saving the country untold consequences. Whatever one’s views are, Nigerians must thank former President Jonathan for not digging-in in the face of defeat and thereby saving the country untold consequences.

Thank Face Saving Views
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I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.

Proud People Display Thank
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You are all my people; I will treat you all as mine. I will work for those who voted for me, voted against me and those who didn’t vote at all.

Mine Work Vote Treat
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Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

Always Barbados Choreographer Culture
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I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Caribbean Fun Give Me
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We must change our lawless habits, our attitude to public office and public trust. We must change our unruly behavior in schools, hospitals, market places, motor parks, on the roads, in homes and offices. To bring about change, we must change ourselves by being law-abiding citizens.

Trust Roads Citizen Change
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It is only when the three arms act constitutionally that government will be enabled to serve the country optimally and avoid the confusion all too often bedeviled governance today.

Today Often Avoid Country
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I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.

Never Said Was Good
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

Got Information Look Much
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We have to upgrade our dilapidated physical infrastructure. No single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation. It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less.

Power Shame Economy Single
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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

Right World Proceed Africa
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It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Against Arguing Been Globalization
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I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen.

Would Not Be Good
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I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

Have Big Fear Change
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Abroad African Armies Because
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The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

Question Love Get Asked
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Considering Difficult Even Faith
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I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

Proud Everything Achieved Idol
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Conditions Difficult Economic Generous
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Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.
Even Though Hate Acting
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I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

Still Watch Idol Still
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Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

Amount Bed Believed Best
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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Beautiful Bottle Childhood Died
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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Always Back Behavior Campaign
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Anything Battle Countenance Individual
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Accomplishments Along Came Did
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A leader who does not READ can't LEAD his people. He can only LID them by being the lid that blocks their progress in life

Leader Lead Lid Blocks
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

Bit Collection Collector Conversation
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Children Cracks Fill Flowers
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Begins Day Dead Just
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It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

Album Easy Full Go
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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly
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The brain is wider than the sky.

Brain Sky Than Wider
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I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

Always Brothers Doing Games
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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Because Died Dying Father
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I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
Blue-Collar England Family Kid
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Bad By The Time Did Get
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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