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The primary purpose of government is to create satisfied citizens, we all have failed in this regards. Time to act is NOW!

Time Regards Failed Create
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As women and citizens, we must be involved in politics. We are an integral part of nation building.

Women Citizen Politics Integral part
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Acting Any Citizen CitizenKane
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Artist Artists Burdens Citizen
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Bowls Changed Children Citizen
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Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

Always Awesome Been Disappears
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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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There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.

American American Citizens Citizens Fortunate
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Reid Hoffman Quotes As a candidate, Trump could make outlandish statements with little regard for their Constitutional implications. As President, he is pledged to respect the Constitution's authority, and the specific rights and protections it guarantees to every American citizen.

American American Citizen Authority Candidate
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Officials Elected Good citizen
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A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

Ready way Friend Lend Money
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When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

Any Basic Basic Human Rights Citizenship
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So, the easiest way to waste the future is to churn out millions of semi-illiterates, largely unemployable citizens most of whom seek criminality as the only way to escape the poverty trap.

Easiest way Future Churn Millions
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If the citizens aren’t using their HEADS, the leaders will use theirs
Citizens Heads Leaders Use
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One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
Another Death Dozen Man
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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

After Coming Family Frozen
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As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake

As citizen Wrongdoing World All live
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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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We don’t have to discriminate against people wherever they reside in the country. Once you’re a citizen of this country, you’re qualified, you’re eligible, you’re free under the law to decide to settle in any party of the country and go about your businesses without fear of molestation.

Discriminate Against people Country
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen.

Citizen Consider Feel Know
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Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

Abandoned Around Asking Could
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While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

Attending Blood Classes Covered
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Bring Find Mountains Only
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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

About Always Because Good Knows
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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

Any Away Citizen Cuts
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I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Being Citizen Like Second-Class
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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Man Tenacious Purpose Firm
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

Becomes Child Citizen Controlling
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Action Aim Being Citizen
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No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 - when I was particularly busy filming overseas - you can't become a citizen.

Australia Become Been Busy
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Administer Assemble Citizens Consisting
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Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now.

Times lies Frozen Never now
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country

Citizenship Service Country
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There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

A deep Frustrated Benevolence
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

Distressing Aid Leaders Taxation
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I was once the Senate President and number three citizen. But I believe these children will be greater than me.

Senate president Believe Children Be greater
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The hallmark of every nation is the wellbeing of its citizens…

Hallmark Every nation Citizens
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When you take away the right of citizens to fair hearing in any democracy, you have committed a crime, and you have set the nation on the path of instability, and destruction.

Take away Right Citizens Fair hearing
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The rule of law is supreme. Absolutely no citizen, is above the law. Anybody who incites, plans, supports, undertakes, or is involved in any manner of violence in SierraLeone will be dealt with within the broad spectrum of the law.

Rule Law Supreme No citizen
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No country (or state) can progress where wealth for citizens is to be created through government owned businesses or govt subsidized businesses. It's about people owned and controlled businesses, competing against each other.

No country Can progress Wreath Business
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Historically, this has not been possible. Now, it is possible using the internet. Classical democracy is due for an overhaul. We need a direct democracy, where the citizens make decisions directly on policy, and where experts are selected by people to decide on particular matters

Historically Possible Classical democracy Citizen
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Governments where the 'best talker', 'most visible person' and 'most funded person' keep winning should disappear. We need a new government type, structurally made up of experts only, and where the citizen is involved in day-to-day decisions.

Government Best talker Visible person Keep winning
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Nigeria is on fire, and the citizens are amused.
Nigeria Fire Amused Citizens
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Like good soldiers we are not promising anything miraculous or spectacular. But what we do promise every law-abiding citizen is freedom from fear and all forms of oppression

Good Soldiers Miraculous Spectacular
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We are first humans before being a citizen of any country. Tolerance is key. Let’s give peace a chance.

First humans Citizen Any country Tolerance
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We really need to learn how to address issues raised by citizens instead of attacking the person simply because he/she has a contrary opinion on issues affecting the country.

Really need Learn Address issues Attacking
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we commenced the distribution of food items and other palliatives to citizens aimed at cushioning the stay-at-home order necessitated by the COVID19 pandemic

We commenced Distribution Food Other palliatives
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We would continue to prepare people to engage in their civic responsibilities as citizens and stakeholders.

Prepare people Engage Civic responsibilities Stakeholder
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