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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

Horrible Hold Feel Maybe
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Asked He Never Truth
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Voice Happened Before Tap
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I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

California Canned Filled Office
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When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Relationship Putting Chips Break
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Enough Oxygen Stuck Walking
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Alcohol Cold Criticisms Crushed
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Dismiss Insults Soul Which
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Least Mankind Object Say
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Advance Behind Fools Go
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Behold Give Lectures Little
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Life Burden Finding That
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rather Play Horn Through
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Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!

Insult Name King Boldness
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I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.

Sold Show Drips EBay
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When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

Waste Enjoy Being Onstage
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Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

Country Idiocy Deal People
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer

Baby Come Congress Country
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Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

Trying Kill Different Cold
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

Subdued Winter Grip Harder
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Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.
Cold Severe Humans Crafty
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America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

Killed Attack Years Kurds
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There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

Law Believe Protect Sworn
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Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Death Life Best Single
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Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Someday New Long Gradual
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I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

Child Reality Raise Society
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Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.

Soldier Field Train Every
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

Encourage Life People Told
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I did not start from here. I started on a small scale. When I was working for someone else, I spent my weekend buying and selling. I sold jewellery. I sold scarfs. My husband was also doing some buying and selling. Yet, he is a lawyer.

Start Small Someone Spent
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The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

First Process Argument Older
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Democracy Development Indeed Land
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Old Age Success Start
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You've got to be strong, you've got to hold on, You've got to keep keeping on, You've got to realize say It is all man for himself.
Strong Realize Keep Hold
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Fake forgiving-and-forgetting is pointless if you will always resent that person, or hold it over their head.

Fake Pointless Resent Person
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I am waiting for the day when I will see you again and hold your soft hands, touch your sweet lips and hug you tight so that you will never leave me again.

Hold Tight Leave Soft
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No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

Matter Old Individual Young
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

Any Could Going Kid
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As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.

Advice Always Deeply Done
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Anything Back Cold Danger
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The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.

Awe Before Goals Height
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Animal Children Cold Common
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The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

About Any Blown Changed
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

Anxious Been Between Blogging
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Prosperity Blessing New Old
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

Black Definitely Integrated Officers
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Alone Chance Environment Golden
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How young can you die of old age?

Age Die How Old
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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Apart Beauty Children Exactly
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