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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Noise Opinion Drown Inner
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Great Surprise Afraid Makes
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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Person Mouth Puts Feats
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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Cutting Shaving Business Competition
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Man World Reserve Experience
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Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Follow Heart Intuition Become
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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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Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Hit Brick Head Convinced
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Discover Definitely Possible Enough
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Money Betterment Life Capital
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Nigeria confuses kids by telling them to be patriotic irrespective of ethnicity only to use state of origin as admission criteria in schools.

Confuse Patriotic Origin State
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We should think twice before washing our dirty linen before the world. It doesn’t just reduce our opponents. It also reduces us to the world.

World Reduce Dirty Twice
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Its mental slavery to allow foreign media dictate what we think about Nigeria & her institutions. They cant love Nigeria more than Nigerians

Mental Media Dictate Love
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Whatever foreign activists say, we must appreciate our military. When push comes to shove, they are the only folks defending us from terror.

Push Shove Terror Military
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So sad that in Nigeria, very few want to participate in revenue generation yet everyone wants to participate in revenue allocation.

Sad Few Revenue Everyone
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Dont wait til Ramadan or Christmas to give food to the poor in your village. Give them education and they will learn how to feed themselves.

Learn Poor Give Feed
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The problem with Nigeria isn’t people, its the structure! If we don’t fix our structure, even an angel will have challenges leading Nigeria.

Fix People Problem Leading
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I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

Know Time Consequences Correct
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Patience is a conquering virtue.

Patience Conquering Virtue
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Nigeria needs politicians for whom politics is a vocation not an occupation, who make money from their businesses not the public treasury.

Public Politics Vocation Money
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The more you attack your predecessor the higher the bar is set for you. Know how slippery a road is before knocking those who slipped on it.

Attack Higher Road Bar
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Act Book Bring Creative
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Real reading is a lonely activity.

Real Reading Lonely Activity
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Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Beautiful Great Magic Potential
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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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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Attention Away Both Common
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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Always Beautiful Because Best
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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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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Agreement Either Even Felt
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Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Fool Learns Once Him
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action

Once Happenstance Twice Coincidence
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beginning Begin Circle Come
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Good Hearing People Reason
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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

Act Complete Difficult Emerges
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Hopeless Romantic Love Time
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Courage Follow Heart Intuition
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Couple Seem Really Records
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Smoke Married Work Drink
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You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.

Burn Idea Problem Passionate
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Instead Talking Appreciate Arrogant
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Nice Lapdogs Poems Embracing
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A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
People Time Want Show
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Yourself Stone Friends Parents
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Nighttime People Thing Supposed
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Rich Bed Wonderful Something
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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

Wife Kids Just Don't
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