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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Challenges Combination Competition Disease
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Voice Amber Yearn Burn
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Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.

Large Dependency Ambition Creat
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Change Liberate Accept Oppresses
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Debt Play Owe Imagination
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The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

Worse Curse Conformity Need
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I have improved with time by playing for elite teams in elite leagues and the Champions League and with the Spanish national team in World Cups and European Championships.

Champions Champions League Championships Cups
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I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

Attacking Back Barcelona Beautiful
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“Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.”

Live Imagination Instead Memory
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“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.”

Muster Gifts Amaze Determination
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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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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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Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

Inclination Show Reveal Trembling
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Bound Dollar Little Give
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Morning Revolution System Believe
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Artist Failure Fewer Gesture
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Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Assassination Enemy Future Sabotage
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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

Arouse Doom Flowing Nation
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
America Gets Getting Inventions
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The wisdom of God is not received through mental exertion. It does not come by tasking your brain to produce. It comes by illumination; it is received by revelation from the Most High, the only wise God.

Wise High Brain Mental
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

Determination Impossible Between Lies
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Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Determination Gives Resolves Keep
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I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

Commitment Community Credible Election
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I have come to launch a campaign of ideas, not one of calumny. I have come to preach love, not hate. I have come to break you away from divisive tendencies of the past which have slowed our drive to true nationhood. I have no enemies to fight. You are all my friends and we share a common destiny.

Destiny Friend Share Common
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Achievement Alone Available Away
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Aspire Bring Business Each
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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Course Destination Distance Historical
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Attributes Change Character Conviction
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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Achieve Dreams Equals Imagination
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The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.

Economic Possible Mentally Political
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

Man Proposed Enemy Contrary
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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Away Budget Cancer Citizen
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This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Absolutely Airlines Beyond Bizarre
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The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

Crisis Deal Economic Economic Future
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Spirit Genius Nation Proverbs
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

Being Defend Dignity Europe
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Enjoy Religion Share Rapture
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Law Randomly Enforced Written
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Administration Bureaucratic Continuity Costs
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Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Analysis Causal Explanation Judgment
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Men Fail Through Lack
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I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

Believe That Victories Defeats
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Confirmed Desperation Lead Lives
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The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.

Real Choice We Have
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Canvas Imagination Our World
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

About Anything Anything Else Else
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

Started Juggler Used Half
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Always Direct Individual Internationalism
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Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

Against Either Every Finance
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