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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Atomic Atomic Bomb Beyond Bomb
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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Africa Combine Continent Deserts
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To move forward as a continent, as Africans, we need to teach people to question things.

Move forward Continent Teach people Question things
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Atom Every Glow Magnificent
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Ashes Atom Dust Every
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Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

Because Cannot Components Domination
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A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

Person's duty Young Ambitious Noblest
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Beauty Test Permanent World
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Mathematician Painter Poet Permanent
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Deaf Hearing Helped Invent
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Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

Choice Get Kids Permanent
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We cannot develop as a continent if we continue to depend on hand-outs. Our under-development is tied to our inability to develop foresight and to adapt quickly.

Develop Continent Hand-outs Foresight
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We see very little progress on our continent due to the spirit of greed.

Progress Continent Spirit of greed Little
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After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend.

Work out Dog Companion Friend
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And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Africa Progress Continent Recognize
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I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Giant proponent Movies Seen Phones
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Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

Doubts Reality Situation Wondered
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

Africa Rapid Progress Continent
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Happily, there’s a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We’re seeing a lot of – actually in Africa – we’re seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

Happily Brain Africa Ghana
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Between Big Books Components
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Also Anything Ask Change
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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
Misconceptions Play Prominent role World
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

About Am Argument Being
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

Genius Overflowing vitality Fertilize Nature
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People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Around People Constantly Emotions
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We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.

Against Arsenal Concentration Dangerous
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

People Watch stops Hour Permanently
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Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.

Bowl Component Diet Dinner
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Drawing Making Expressive gesture Permanence
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The hopes, dreams and aspirations of our nation and continent rests on you! God has equipped you with special abilities that can enable you scale over any mountain. Although our problems are numerous, I still believe there is hope for Africa!

Hopes Dreams Aspirations Our nations
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

Alive Am Believe Claim
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

No permanent friends Enemies Interest
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Confuse Defeat Dreams Life
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Time Political opponents Honored me Fabulous
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Campaign Component Diamonds History
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I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.

Africa Amount Coming Continent
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The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

Defenders Me Opponents Play
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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Give birth Mischievous Children lives
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To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

Africa Continent Drawn Genetically
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Alone Free Free People People
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

Continent Bail Further Side
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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Sufficient Laws Unenforceable
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Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

Winning Getting up More time
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You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

Change Permanent seeming Life Varying attitudes
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Africa’s light will always shine. We will continue the race to develop our continent with pride and dignity. We will stay the course and finish the race. Happy Africa Day!

Always shine Will continue Race Develop
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I believe that we must start giving the prominence that girls truly deserve, because, one day they will be mothers and they will be the education book for their children.

I believe Prominence Girls Truly deserve
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

Moderation Things healthy Total abstinence Harmful
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Poor infrastructure not only inhibits economic growth but quite frankly, it stands in the way and affects the quality of the lives of the people in the continent.

Poor infrastructure Economic growth Affects Lives
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Use your entrepreneurial drive, uncompromising integrity, and a passion for excellence in everything you do, and apply all of those skills, talents and capabilities to address the challenges the continent faces.

Entrepreneurial drive Uncompromising integrity Passion Excellence
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