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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Advice Cannot Get Gets
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In Sub Saharan Africa, a disciplined man is seen as wicked. A man with low self esteem is seen as humble. A confident man with adequate self esteem is seen as proud. A friendly girl is considered a flirt or lose.

Disciplined Humble Proud Confident
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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Chief Direction Had Influence
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Age Equal Hesitation Increases
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Age Between Candidate Distinction
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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Always More Performance Point
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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Boredom Least Many Presidency
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Cannot Ever Guarantee Impose
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Human rights na my property So therefore, you can't dash me my property.

Human right Dash Property My
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Any war waged on corruption should not be misconstrued as settling old scores or a witch-hunt. I’m running for president to lead Nigeria to prosperity and not adversity.

Lead Scores War Old
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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Apparent Blessing Failed Failure
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We will be a compassionate government, for out of compassion arises the truest forms of wealth and progress a society can attain.

Attain Society Wealth Arises
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No longer shall illegal flows of massive sums leave these shores to finance other economies. While our people languish in poverty, we effectively give financial aid to nations that is not justified. I am sick of this. It must stop. The money saved will finance jobs, health care and the provision of social safety net for the needy, weak and vulnerable of our land.

Land Weak Safety Sick
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Better Doing Even I Think
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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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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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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

By-Product A Goal Happiness
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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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A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

Fears Office Scores Past
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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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The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

Drea Passion Work Nations
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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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I appeal to employers and workers alike to unite in raising productivity so that everybody will have the opportunity to share in increased prosperity.

Share Unite Appeal Worker
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education Every Family Information
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The amnesty programme in the Niger Delta is due to end in December, but the government intends to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place.

Place Due Intends Invest
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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

Right World Proceed Africa
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I pledge myself and the government to the rule of law, in which none shall be so above the law that they are not subject to its dictates, and none shall be so below it that they are not availed of its protection.

Law Rule Pledge Dictates
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When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.
When People Talk About
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Abject Billions Countries Developing
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I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

Love My Weight Body
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Between Calculations Choose Driven
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Complain Genuinely Poetry First
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Abroad African Armies Because
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Verbal Maker Objects Poet
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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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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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Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

Above Arise Both Commitment
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Race Class Money Distinctions
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I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop.

Think One Thing You
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Building Challenge Development Equality
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I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

Proud Everything Achieved Idol
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On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

Appreciate Change Climate Fully
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Conditions Difficult Economic Generous
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Taste Irritating Direct Friends
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Carry Does Every Freedom
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A leader who does not READ can't LEAD his people. He can only LID them by being the lid that blocks their progress in life

Leader Lead Lid Blocks
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If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

Africa Bob Bob Marley Climb
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