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“Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.”

Ability Measure Character Strength
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“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”
Friend Who Sometimes Hand
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“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

Life Know Else Responsibility
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I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others

Woman Queen Treatment Request
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“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Compelling Obstacles Invariably Absolutely
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I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

Realise Believe Wide High
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Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you’re not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it.

Power Purpose Planet Destiny
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I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.

Care Money Free Good thing
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For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus

Cliche Beauty Outside Love
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Racism is ignorant. And it’s stupid. And it’s old. And it’s played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? ‘Let’s all get along’ – I’m so tired of that damn sentence, but it’s true.

Racism Tired Ignorant Old
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I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.

Unshakable Large Comfortable Financial
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I’d say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect

Kids Footsteps Size Perfect
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When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Affordable Again Care Congress
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Being Boy Duty Emotion
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Continuous Fiction Form Newspaper
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Fear Life Loss Misfortune
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Best Escape Interest Only
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Fact Good Important Knowing
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Life is a sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still thee to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Admire Honor Serve Experience
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The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.
Failure Dread Success Awful
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Sharpen Blunt Mellow Personal
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Life Live Splendid Gift
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Live Build Cheap House
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Young Think Lose Sure
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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Razor Skin Stray Line
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Solid Break Feel Term
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

About Alive Did Done
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Job Kids Manners Learning
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Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Fate Does Chance Matter
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And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become … all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings.

Human Animal Race Cruel
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When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.

People Courage Resist Right
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His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

Light Mouth Gash Human
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

Actor Anything Approach Because
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

Grateful Knew Learned Never
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Maternal desire is the profound emotional need to mother a baby. This stems from either the tragic loss of her own child, or the inability to have one at all.

Desire Emotion Baby Stem
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I once dated a guy who washed his car more than he washed his hair.
Wash Hair Car Once
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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Nature Place Visit Home
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It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Peace Disintegrate Better We
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Africa Best Ever Principles
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Debate Culture History Divergence
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I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.

Ambition Worth Blood Nigerian
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Women need to be giving the opportunities to tap into their talents, and energy is being wasted on a daily basis.

Women Need Talents Energy
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

Social Media Simply Actions
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Black Women World Us
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When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

African Back Fabric Home
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Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

Able Baggy Bit Cuts
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Umm... my favourite Wizkid tune of all time would be 'Don't Dull' 'cos I recorded the track in, like, 5 minutes. The beat was ready, we went into the studio and freestyled, and it was ready. The song became really, really big, so I think 'Don't Dull' is still my favourite.

Beat Became Big Dull
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The only thing fame has changed in Wizkid is that I added some accessories. I have got nice chains, watches, and nice clothes. Asides that, I am still Wizkid. I no tall, still same height.

Accessories Added Am Chains
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It's not like a boss and artist relationship; it's like a big brother to a younger brother relationship, and he's a great guy. So big shout-out to Akon and the Konvict Muzik crowd.

Artist Big Big Brother Boss
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We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.

African Artists Definitely Earn
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