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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Progress Nation Swifter Education
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All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

African Dispora Feel There
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Sorry Point Life Extinct
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Courage Life Dramatic Spectacle
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Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

Not Unlike Country History
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Art Nourish Culture Society
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I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Wanted Remind Myself Others
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For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.

For Me It's Important
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My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

My Father Raised Me
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Man Problems Solved Destiny
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If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time.

If We Can Believe
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It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.

It's Better Do Your
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The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Became Businessman Court First
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When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.

Active Anything Because Doing
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My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to.

Above Ahead Ball Before
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I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.

Ability Always Been Court
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Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

About Field Get Help
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

About Anything Blog Encouraging
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Courage Embody Feel Fight
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Any Attempt Brutal Comprehensible
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

About Average Average Person Come
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Best Block Deadline Getting
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I felt your response was ill -timed, knowing those leaders were mourning. I apologize if it came out wrongly, or rudely.

Response Leaders Apologize Wrong
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

After Circle Five Four
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Our lives are like these footprints. One day the tide will come. May we live a meaningful life and be blessed with children that will bless the world.

Lives Footprints Meaningful Bless
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If blaming others for not taking actions you can't take yourself makes you sleep well at night, enjoy.

Blaming Actions Sleep Night
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Story Part Work History
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Neck Around Time Ankle
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Story Far Begin Surface
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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Existing Gains Imagine Journey
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

Five Hours Lucky More
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
Age Another Better Commitment
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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Courts Law Enforce Jails
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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Detour Good Hell Pretty
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You cant find opportunity in yesterday. Opportunity begins with o, and o exists only in today and tomorrow. Don’t regret the failures of your past. Prepare for the successes in your future. Change your understanding of NO to mean Next Opportunity

Opportunity Yesterday Tomorrow Failures
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Yes, prayer is the key. But a key is USELESS without a door. Prayer may be the key, but work is the door that the key of prayer opens. Don’t confuse laziness for faith. After you have prayed, look for the work door that your prayer key will open

Prayer Useless Faith Door
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Don't race with the car in front of you. Drive your car at your own pace.
Race Car Drive Pace
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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Real Life Cities Sense
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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Wish Join Way March
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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Effort Courage Enough Purpose
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Society Effluent Been Also
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Softness Lack Physical Fitness
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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Free Once Spirit Human
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I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

Problems Seek Truth Historical
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Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

Trouble Rich Resources Culture
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Assertion Men Created Equally
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Concern God Side Greatest
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Sad World Sorrow Young
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Forffeit Confidence Fellow Citizens
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

Four Basic Human Need
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