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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Choices Die Ends Lives
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The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.

Means Resources Weapons Beat
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Built Character Courageously Experience
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We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Call Defeats Disasters Energies
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Anyone Become Else Even
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: they offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

Twist Minds Money Promise
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You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

Child Courage Frank Frankness
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Anyway Criticized Feel Heart
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If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Any Ask Cannot Favor
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We stand united in our pledge to resist terror in Nigeria – not just through military means but also through the power of opportunity and the hope of a better future for all.

Future Better Stand Power
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Religion is a personal affair. If you want to visit Mecca or Jerusalem do it with your personal funds. Sponsorship of religious pilgrimages is illegal, unconstitutional and lack of fairness.

Affair Visit Lack Funds
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Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

All Things Cannot Duty Less
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Because they can’t attack our record, they accuse me falsely of ethnic jingoes; they accuse me falsely of religious fundamentalism. Because they cannot attack our record, they accuse us falsely of calling for election violence – when we have only insisted on peace. Even as Head of State, we never imposed Sharia.

Attack Record Accuse Ethnic
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The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!

Among Christian Convert Doctrines
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Bible Gave Hours I Think
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I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.

Proud People Display Thank
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There shall no more be a ruling party; All Progressive Congress (APC), will now be your governing party.

Party Shall Ruling Will
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When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Always Backward Club Dressed
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When you're putting in the work you don't realize how much you've put in until you get to a point and look back and see how much you've done you'll be proud of your hard work! Hard work always pays

Hard work You Realize Proud
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Let us put the recent past behind us and forget our old battles.
Battles Recent Behind Forget
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Our long night is over and a new dawn has come… Democracy and rule of law will be put in place.
Place Rule Long Law
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Every new government inherits problems. Ours was no different. But what Nigerians want are solutions, quick solutions not a recitation of problems inherited.

Quick Inherits New Solutions
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We must change our lawless habits, our attitude to public office and public trust. We must change our unruly behavior in schools, hospitals, market places, motor parks, on the roads, in homes and offices. To bring about change, we must change ourselves by being law-abiding citizens.

Trust Roads Citizen Change
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Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbours!

Everyone Says Like Girl
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I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

Hygiene Freak Like Obsessive
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We have to upgrade our dilapidated physical infrastructure. No single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation. It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less.

Power Shame Economy Single
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Fact Writing Culture Art
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Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Build Business Civil Community
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art Bread Breaking Chief
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We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Capacity Deal Find Means
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Always Bed Eats Evil
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The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

Question Love Get Asked
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If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Attempt Chart Course Decades
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In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

Failed Greatest Hour Need
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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Children Future Going Leave
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Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.

Door Always That Says
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
Dreams Lack Learn You
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No matter how angry the gods are, a lion cannot be used for sacrifice..no one can take your life no matter their precedent in the act of extinction.

Act Lion Life Angry
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Consent Feel Inferior Make
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

AdBetter Feel Good Guests
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You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

Life Live Meet Missing
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You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

Accept Body Comfortable Just
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Dont dominate people. They will rebel against you. Rather, dominate yourself and people will nominate you as their leader

Rebel Dominate Yourself Leader
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Always Because Believed Feel
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Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

Attention Ego Every Gets
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Belief Believe Beyond Force
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Affection Became Came Child
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Eldest Harm Mother Nature
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