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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Best Conviction Criticism Honest
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Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

Every Granted Just Mean
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We stand united in our pledge to resist terror in Nigeria – not just through military means but also through the power of opportunity and the hope of a better future for all.

Future Better Stand Power
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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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If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Another Any Anyone Back
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition Any Cannot Despicable
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Religion is a personal affair. If you want to visit Mecca or Jerusalem do it with your personal funds. Sponsorship of religious pilgrimages is illegal, unconstitutional and lack of fairness.

Affair Visit Lack Funds
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Because they can’t attack our record, they accuse me falsely of ethnic jingoes; they accuse me falsely of religious fundamentalism. Because they cannot attack our record, they accuse us falsely of calling for election violence – when we have only insisted on peace. Even as Head of State, we never imposed Sharia.

Attack Record Accuse Ethnic
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Bible Gave Hours I Think
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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 always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Always Get Go Guard
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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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If someone is right for you, you'll know it.

Know Right Someone You
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People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Because Broken Complex Deal
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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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I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Able Being Dress Enjoy
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When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.

Always Am Dare Fashion
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When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.

Actually Am Back Caught
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I have heard and read references to me as a ‘former dictator’… I take responsibility for anything that happened under my watch.

Read Under Take Watch
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Most Time. Disappointments are just God's way of saying I've got something better. Be patient
Patient Better Disappointment Most time
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I bear no ill will against anyone on past events. Nobody should fear anything from me. We are not after anyone. People should only fear the consequences of their actions.

Past Actions People Event
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People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Because Expect Just Just Because
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If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

About Angry Anything Because
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My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Certain Me Mother Raised
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Our long night is over and a new dawn has come… Democracy and rule of law will be put in place.
Place Rule Long Law
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The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

Drea Passion Work Nations
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As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.

Watch People Trust Under
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Every new government inherits problems. Ours was no different. But what Nigerians want are solutions, quick solutions not a recitation of problems inherited.

Quick Inherits New Solutions
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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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The Federal Executive under my watch will not seek to encroach on the duties and functions of the Legislative and Judicial arms of government.

Watch Duties Arms Under
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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 think the best thing about me is my personality... Come rain, shine, rich, poor, fat, thin- I'll always make you laugh somehow.

Personality Best thing Poor Rich
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I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

Hygiene Freak Like Obsessive
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We shall rebuild and reform the public service to become more effective and more serviceable. We shall charge them to apply themselves with integrity to stabilize the system.

System Apply Charge Reform
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Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
Like Every Other Girl
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Always Ask Grant Just
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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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People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm blonde, redhead, or brunette! I always have fun.

People Keep Asking Having
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The amnesty programme in the Niger Delta is due to end in December, but the government intends to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place.

Place Due Intends Invest
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My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time.

My Happy Weight Changes
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I pledge myself and the government to the rule of law, in which none shall be so above the law that they are not subject to its dictates, and none shall be so below it that they are not availed of its protection.

Law Rule Pledge Dictates
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Because Build Cannot Every
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Best Means Music Time
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music Smell Anywhere Invisible
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I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you're both musicians.

Dated Couple Guys Were
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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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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

World Unique Sense Class
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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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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Complain Genuinely Poetry First
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art Bread Breaking Chief
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