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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Read Poem Laugh Cry
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When the results are good, everything seems prettier; when things go bad, it seems like all conflicts, personal disputes, and problems arise.

Result Good Seem Arise
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You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Pressure Team Attack Point
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

Among Mind Mortal Body
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

Problem People Around Time
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I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Hide Write Climb Create
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

Desire Eager Want Animal
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When you have friends, don’t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on Allah.

Depend People Hope Expect
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It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.

Government Interest Nation Process
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Worth Kind Force Break
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You should always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise, they won’t come to yours.

Always People Other Come
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Lose Dear Permanent You
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When you’re trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain’t to be played with. You’ve got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon’ make music, let’s just make music.

Bring Already Lost Separate
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Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Idea Done Young People
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Model Fashion Adveance Good
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

Blame Fair Enough Alone
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Animals Slaves Equal Consider
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

Conscience Blush Sincerely Man
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

Driven Effect Conversation Life
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

Life TV Love Short
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

Control Global Problem Giant
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
World Strongest Change Inherited
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Ignorance Begets Knowledge Frequently
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Theater Nature Text Images
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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.

People PDP Vote Corruption
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Audience Dynamic Quality Environment
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact; can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Truth Antithesis Antagonism Society
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
Glutton Tranquility
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Colonialism Bred Innate Imperial
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Power Domination Control Selective
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Ultimate Lesson Just Write
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Leaders Always Elected Habit
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Clever White Religion Amused
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There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Lions History Hunt Glorify
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Learnt Experience Nothing
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Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.
Procrastination Lazy Man Apology
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Christianity Valuable Thing Whole
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Nigeria Trouble Mistreatment Religion
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
World Mask Dancing Stand
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

Long Idea Down General
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Era Live Grow Virtue
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Work Profit Hard Use
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Realistically, I don't let any of criticisms get to me. I know who I am, I know what I am, I know what I'm capable of, and if these guys have faith in what I'm doing, as I have faith in what they're doing, nothing can stop me.

Capable Faith Stop Criticisms
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The crowd response has always been great, we always have fun at the shows and we will definitely be back representing our album to give people entertainment with a stage show, most rap shows are boring.

Crowd Great Show Entertainment
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As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.

Judge Desire Matter Rule
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There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

Constitution Order Protect Privacy
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Folly Law Economic Constitutional
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A coward dies a thousand deaths. A soldier dies but once.
Coward Dies Soldier Thousand
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Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Dre Heros Music Industry
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If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

People Draw Agree Realize
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