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There is a difference between what you like and what God wants you to do.

Difference Like God Want
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Being Capable Larger Laureate
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Serious stories World Failure Death
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Ignorance sheer Confidence Something about Profession
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Religion and tribalism are the first two to arrive at the meeting when Nigerians gather. There is nothing more divisive than them. Imagine both in one room and To make matters worse, they both want to chair the meeting. Chaos!

Religion Tribalism Nigerian Divisive
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Envy Heart Human Passion
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

About Chooses Dear Duty
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Abuse Always Another Anything
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. When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

Money Free National lender Lend to
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Realize Imperfect understanding Human
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Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

Whenever Conflict Universal principles Self interest
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We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

Speak Triumph Capitalism World
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Calling Category Except I See
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My body holds on to every part of every, you know, calorie that there is out there.

Body Calorie Every Holds
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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Been Except Forgotten Has-Been
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.

Moving Brewing Ambitious people Wicked
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Bids Consolation Corner Create
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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Kingdom Lord Greater God
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Eternity Exists God Meets
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Community Done Every EveryHeart
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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Critical CriticalMass Idea Induce
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

About Born Child Does
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Always Easy Feels Forgive
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Sure Sure Thing Thing Uncertainty
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There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

Am Anyone Arts Falsehood
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Alive Am Anything Country
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There is every reason to be optimistic. Ghanaian are ready and they have a government that is ready.

Ghanaian Optimistic Reason Government
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There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Conscience Frame Man Me
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There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Become Devils Eventually God
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There is no complete theory of anything.

Anything Complete Theory
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

Law Sex Shall Universal
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Author Difficult First Front
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It’s not my victory, it’s yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We’ve given them hope.

My victory Yours Win Hope
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Kind Life Sweetness Strength
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In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Always Bad Every Good
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Activists Always Building Committed
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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Agnostic Any Bottom Evidence
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Hardly Better way Discussion Releasing
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Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.

God Can do Anything Fear nothing
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I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

Actually Between Bollywood Hollywood
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If there is no corruption in governance and public life, there would be enough resources in any nation to meet the important needs of the common people, including women and youth.

No corruption Governance Public life
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There has never been, there isn’t and there will never be another YOU. That’s your secret power!!!

Never Another you Secret power
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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Candle Certain Day Either
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
End Justifies Justify Long
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Cruelty Magnanimous Serious Struggle
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Crack Everything Gets How
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There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

So much Can do Chance Nothing
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Beyond Condition Constitution Covenant
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Asking Barely Child He
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As young people, you do not need permission to participate. You must occupy your space because there is no governance without citizen engagement and youth-led accountability.

Young people Permission Occupy Your space
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