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Nigeria does not need more activists. Nigeria needs more active citizens

Nigeria Citizen Active Activist
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Healthy Citizen Assets Country
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Life Fast Dream Field
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contribution of half of its citizens.”

Country Flourish Potential Women
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His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

Light Mouth Gash Human
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For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

Rob Citizen That Every
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I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

California Canned Filled Office
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I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
Help Parent Teacher Citize
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

Radically Living Results Law
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The stronger the boat of (democracy), the more it is able to meet the challenges of its voyage and deliver on its promise to citizens

Boat Promise Deliver Citizens
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

Citizens Government Left Like
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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Away Budget Cancer Citizen
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Man Gracious World Citizen
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The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Men Idolized Built Their
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When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.

Become Concerned Our About
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Bald Before Being Citizen
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
How Not Prison Judged
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Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

Citizen Ensure Every Integrity
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Brook Dozen Finds Fish
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Any Authority Citizen Governing
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Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

Autonomy Citizen Continue Else
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

America Citizens Deserve Expect
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

American Citizen Each Going
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Citizens Demand Glorify Hesitant
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution

Citizen Country Fight Leaders Life
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Citizens Colors Country Dependent
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Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

America Before Citizens Existed
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Christians Citizens Good Good Citizens
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Awake Basic Understanding Citizenry
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Case Citizen Every Free
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Citizenship Daily Democracy Without
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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Citizens Community Country Educate
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

Basically Blogging Improves Life
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Bird Dead Drop Frozen
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My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

Alien Became Born Boston
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Athenian Citizen Greek World
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

America Armed Citizens Control
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

Archives Away Beyond Bohemia
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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Anyone Citizen Foreigner Harm
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Aside Assumed Citizen Lay
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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Basis Citizen Defense Down
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Citizens Difference Little Make
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If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.

Bill-of-rights Forefathers Pollution
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People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.

Buy Cancer Cost Costs
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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

Against Am American American Dream
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From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.

Action Action Movie Actor Aggressive
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If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Buy Citizens Decision Democracy
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It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled.

Citizens Dream Happen Impossible
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