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Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Album Always Bought Experience
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I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Afford African Believe Afford
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I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Albums Always Between Come
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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Actually Artists Controversy Deal
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The difference between dreams and success is that dreams need effortless sleep and success needs sleepless efforts.

Dream Need Effort Sleep
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Sister life is deeper. Deeper life is sister.

Sister Life Deeper
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I think even outside of being an artist, anyone with success should always put themselves in a position to help others.

Always Position Other Anyone
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People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third.

First Even Problem People
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Education is the most critical tool for transforming individuals and spurring growth and development.

Growth Tool Most Development
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Nigerians need not vilify those who disagree with us politically, or treat them as less patriotic or even as felons.

Treat Vilify Patriotic Disagree
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It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society.

Easy Stop Envelope Brown
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Success is when God is happy with you, when the closest people around you are happy and when your soul is at peace with you.

Success God Happy People
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The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

Raise About Brother Even
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

Abuse Plus Process Power
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My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

Under Urgency Policed Police
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Before we increase taxes, we must optimize the capacity to get that which is in the place.

Increase Place Capacity Before
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I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Rich Kingdom Heaven Man
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Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

God Children Greater World
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Competition stimulates productivity. There is no state that is unable to carry out productive activity.

Activity Unable State Stimulate
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Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Stone Cast Among She
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I realized the mountain I've been climbing ,is nothing but sand

Mountain Climbing Realized Been
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If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

Bring Save Forth Within
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It is our responsibility to continue to add value whenever we find ourselves in a privileged position.

Position Value Continue Find
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The grass is greener when you water the ground. that's what I found when I took the the ride.

Grass Greener Water Ground
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The only training I have is that of a lawyer. I don’t fix contract prices, I don’t sign cheques, non of my commissioners signs cheques. We have a process that was followed.

Process Sign Lawyer Fix
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. In public life I have remained loyal to causes that I have signed on to. Nobody can fairly accuse me of giving my word and going back on my word. I always pray that my loyalty will not be tested.

Concept Strange Remain Loyalty
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My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Fight Servant Would Kingdom
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Our infrastructure is behind, and if we don't invest money in infrastructure, we can't move forward. We can't borrow to pay salaries or fuel generators, we must borrow to pay for our Infrastructures.

Behind Invest Infrastructure Move
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All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Kill Adultery Commandments Commit
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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Good Credit Even Sinner
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For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Profit Man Gain Soul
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For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Son Perish Whoever Life
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But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Enemies Pray Say Persecute
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Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Give Beg Takes Away
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No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Brave Disturb No Unexpected
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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Willing Believe What Wish
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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Ready Believe Ourselves Wish
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I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Have Grow Accomplishments Both
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The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Love Acknwoledge Gratitude Explicit
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Powerful Powerless Gaints Paradox
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To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
Blessing Someone Most GIve
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The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Spiritual Life Beyond Existence
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Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Prayer Concrete Home God
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Healing Friend Silent Grief
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People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

People Handicaps Hearts Together
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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Discipline Everything Planned Create
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The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

Christian Leaders Trained Careful
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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Peace Anger Trust Resentment
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Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

Blessed Poor Deeper Communion
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The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Journey Teaching Love Allowing
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