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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Been Birth Children Consequences
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The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home.

Aware Children Go Home
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Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.

Taken away Lasting enjoyment Proper object
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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the non totalitarian world.

Existence Non totalitarian world
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Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Novel Great distance
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The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

Worth writing People Human beings Men
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The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.

City lay Vaulting sky Clouds
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Alone Beast Distinctive Finds
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Life Routine Unbearable
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My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.

About Aging Issue Physical
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I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

Become Boy Consumed Creation
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I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

Admire Bedrock Catholicism Had
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Art Because Culture Education
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I promise to support the advocacy by setting up a women-focused radio station in Abuja soon.
Promise Advocacy Setting up Women focused
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I will continue to use my position… to rekindle the spirit of women for the utilization of their potentials towards the socio-economic & political development of our country.

Will continue Position Spirit Women
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Nigerian women will continue to be stronger together in love, peace and unity.

Nigerian women Continue Stronger Love
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I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Believed Five Forever Institution
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It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

Acting Age Great Job
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Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

About Care Don't Care Enough
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Always Apt Beautiful Better
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I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

Bully Excruciating Felt Had
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it

Bad language Children Dies Learn
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Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Fighting Head Change Resist learning
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As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

Sure History Repeating itself Man
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How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

Because Believe Comforting Finds
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I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.

Arms Best Best Part Card
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Most mothers Instinctive philosophers
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Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Humor Like Starts Then
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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
Ahead Comedy Get Going
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

About Absolutely American Being
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The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.

The power Fictitious writing Seriously
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The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

The world Interesting things
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I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.

Thrilled Stress Kids Active
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I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

Believe Connected Positive energy Power
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Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

Anyone Smart phone Potential eyewitness
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I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

I got Check today Writer Siting
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Marriage is not just what you want to get into because it is time, or that you are getting old, or because people are looking at you to must-have settled down.

Marriage Want Get Time
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If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.

After Bar First First Time
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The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.
About Good Good Writing Music
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I really think if you're trying to look good, do something athletic. I have a little mini tramp, and sometimes I'll just try to jump for 20 minutes. It gets your blood circulating, and that always looks really pretty.

Always Athletic Blood Gets
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.

Acting Always American American Idol
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Bad Bad One Cause Good
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Cant Criticism Hypocrites May
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Conversation Different I Think May
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

America Automobile Begins Chain
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Consider Feel I Feel I Think
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I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

Before Blood Breath Caused
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Am Does Face I Am
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We cannot shrink the future of Africa in accepting its reality.

Shrink The future Reality
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Africa has the wealth to invest and the clearest path to reducing inequality is investing in African youth, our most important asset.

Wealth Invest Reducing inequality Youth
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