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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Cookie Diction Like Out
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Balancing womanhood, Nollywood and entrepreneurship isn’t only possible, it looks like a lot of fun.

Balancing womanhood Entrepreneurship Only possible
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Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.

Away Barriers Break Down
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In Nollywood, you have to learn to work with limited resources and be very entrepreneurial…

Learn Work Limited resources Entrepreneurial
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Expression Find Grace Life
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I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty hero even though she was definitely considered to not be beautiful. It was just her charisma and stage presence, and to me, that really defines beauty.

Based Beautiful Beauty Charisma
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I feel like most people know that I'm a vegan, and I'm a pretty vocal animal activist. Everything and anything I do, I just kind of use it as a vehicle to be able to send out the message.

Able Activist Animal Anything
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I knew the minute we announced our pregnancy that we would be bombarded with unsolicited advice. Some good and some questionable - unsolicited none the less.

Advice Announced Bombarded Good
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You don't have to get married and have a family, like a lot of women try, to live the American Dream. There's nothing wrong if you're in your 40s and don't have kids and are president of your own company.

American American Dream Company Dream
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

About Away Cloudy Day
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Impressions Imprint Lasting Leave
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The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Blaze Civilisation Ever Feeble
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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Religiosity Remembrance Soul
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Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

Marrying Sex Free peanuts
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I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

Taken So many Turns Careless
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There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Based Designate Faculty Impression
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Background Classic Even Holds
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The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

Cabinet Culture Far Holds
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Anything Concentrate Does Else
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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

About Because Book Compare
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What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

Add Appeared Art Attempt
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Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Acceptable Butt Jokes Last
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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Strength Civilization Measured Ability
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Bluebird Happiness Life Depression
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When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

Working on Period Depression Keep busy
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Actually Believe Bit Could
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I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

Pretty Philosophical Things Death
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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Audience Continue Lot Me
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Many people Prevent Thinking
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Nothing makes Old Thought Growing older
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue Premeditation Worth much
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Habit Friction Mind Gliding over
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Blocks Everyone Experience Expression
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I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Democratic Democratic Party Democrats Did
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I'm on 'Game Of Thrones,' and every time we have someone new coming on our show, we welcome them with open arms and get revitalised by this new presence. Then we kill them off very quickly.

Arms Coming Every EveryTime
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My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person. And he's pretty dark.

Any Batman Because Dark
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Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Am Because Days Dealing
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Appeared Automobile Could Destroy
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It is very intriguing that it is the same set of people, including some members of the public, who always seek to hold public officers accountable (and who are always quick to cry ‘crucify him’) that also put them under pressure to contribute financially to everything they do.

Intriguing People Members Public
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The preponderance of opinions in countries around the world is that majority of citizens are blaming their govts for not doing enough to curb COVID-19. We must be tolerant & allow people vent their opinions. It’s a sign of the times. The grass is always greener on the other side

Preponderance Opinions World Citizens
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The challenge that’ll soon face government around the world is how to keep their citizens safe from COVID-19 by imposing inactivity & at the same time how to keep them safe from poverty, hunger and depression as a result of the inactivity. It’s a decision between the rock and a hard place

Challenge Face Government World
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Let’s use this period of partial lockdown to reignite old friendships and our common humanity. It’s not a period of gloom, but precaution. Call up old friends; search for your childhood playmates on social media and chat them up. Soon, we shall return to our crazy daily schedules

Partial lockdown Reignite Old friendship
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This is how every African should think for Africa to grow. Stop feeling inferior to Oyibo people. Na the same God create us. We have what they do not have while they have what we do not have. Love our own, appreciate…

Think Grow Stop feeling inferior
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Prayer is my propeller. It helps me hold it all together, and the distance I have covered is only because I draw strength from God’s presence.

Prayer My propeller Help
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Describe Future Prevent Try
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

After Anyone Before Even
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When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Depression Graduated Had High
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