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Our past…not our past leaders, our past looters, you may not understand, looters, embezzlers pissed on the political positions, have eaten the cake of this country, and we are suffering it.

Cake Past Position Pissed
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All the money voted for road constructions were swindled, eaten. Many of them became millionaires, billionaires in Naira, in Dollars, in Pounds, in Euro. Billionaires, when they have no workshop, no business centre. Somebody who has nothing he’s doing, yet he’s a billionaire, because he’s a politician.

Centre Road Money Somebody
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Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Cope Crutch Just People
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Given Little Lose Madness
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abuse Arbitrary Clinical Distinctions
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Always Experience Leaders Mean
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Ear Elegance Flexibility Glued
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Reality Scope Process Adjustment
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

True Instant Picture Image
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Conspicuous Failings Inability Mankind
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Secret Death Real Soul
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Beats Conquest Hard Impact
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost Attempting Display Does
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Given Law Little Much
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Ability Acting Another Character
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Anything Careful Little Love
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Arse Everyone Except Man
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Anybody He Little Made
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Get Honest Luck No Respect
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Apply Between Cannot Difference
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Brute Directly Fidelity Frequent
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Attain Great Great Man Greatness
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Exquisite Horror Impress Mind
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ability Absence Conflict Handle
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Appear Dreams Man Realities
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All the best stories in the world 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.

Reality Times Best Escape
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Good He Him Inclination
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Different Manner Might Much
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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Asked Attention Drama Gotten
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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Done Little Much Such Things
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality

I Think Internet Reality Reality TV
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Bears Close Come First
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Appetite Baby Big Canal
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Always Bad Book Disgrace
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Artists Bit Cases Country
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Absolutely After Country Danger
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Business Close Coast Hell
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

About Admired Beatles Choices
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

All My Life Been Government Involved
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In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts.

Best Cases Courts Federal
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I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

Am Approach Best Deeply
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Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.

Because Been Emphasis Experience
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Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Anyone Back Because Big
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Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

Actress Am Close Had
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