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Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.
Muhammadu Buhari
Education
Learning
Will
Girl
Poverty
Young
Ensuring
Out
Must
Citizens
Direct
More
Through
Part
Particular
Empowered
Educate
Up
Young Girls
Themselves
Full
Appeal
Grow
Grow Up
Play
Nigeria
Pull
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.
Muhammadu Buhari
People
Made
Setting
President
Our
Statesmanship
Our People
Would
Jonathan
Like
Proud
His
Precedent
Thank
Wherever
Us
Display
Now
Nigerians
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.
Muhammadu Buhari
Life
Food
You
People
Money
Young
Group
Difficult
Starving
Minds
Members
Promise
Admitted
Fact
Mentors
Alluring
Know
Because
Answers
Offer
Fanaticism
While
Former
Young People
Your
Search
Why
Fundamentalism
Twist
We must unite to build a safe, new Kenya.
Mwai Kibaki
Build
Must
New
Safe
Unite
Kenya
I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.
Nelson Mandela
Travel
Glasses
Car
Master
Would
Wear
Pretext
Could
Chauffeur
Had
Driving
Overalls
Known
Because
Blue
Often
Convenient
Cap
Wore
Round
Pose
Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
Nelson Mandela
Good
Policy
Permit
Nonviolence
Conditions
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
Nelson Mandela
Life
Freedom
Struggle
Surrender
Will
My Life
Sacrifice
South Africa
Fighting
Action
Only
Through
Days
Until
Leave
Continue
Nor
South
End
Won
Africa
Militant
Hardship
If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
Nelson Mandela
You
Long
Live
Likely
Poor
Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem
Me
Revenge
Follow
Advance
Retreat
Die
You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.
Nguyen Van Thieu
You
Job
Ran
Could
Left
Us
Away
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!
Nikita Khrushchev
You
Live
Teeth
Bite
He
Feels
Hound
Like
Stick
Dogs
After
Keep
Among
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
Time
You
Change
People
Power
Stay
Talk
Because
Want
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
Nikita Khrushchev
Life
Great
You
School
Life Is A
Bangs
Teaches
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Fight
People
World
Heroism
New
Israel
Intellectual
Created
Working
Image
Jew
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman Tebbit
Possible
Must
Direct
Parliament
Allow
Mislead
Quite
Them
Themselves
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
Norman Tebbit
Work
Riot
He
Looked
Got
His
Bike
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Democracy
Law
Political
Dedication
Our
Rule
Rule Of Law
Constant
Struggles
True
Advantage
Concern
Force
Principle
Endless
Often
Burning
Unfortunately
Which
Disputes
The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
Peter Fraser
Education
Government
Best
Free
Country
Whatever
Live
Kind
Citizens
Ability
Objective
Town
Powers
Fitted
Whether
Which
Persons
Fullest
Expressed
Right
Level
Extent
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Own
Our
Faults
Draws
Veil
Between
Self-Love
Us
Thick
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Knowledge
Learning
World
Men
Reading
Books
Facets
More
Only
Various
Studying
Reading Books
Them
Acquired
Much
Necessary
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Wisdom
Art
Wise
Fool
Thou
Thou Art
Seeking
Attained
Imagining
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Good
Man
Together
Wife
Will
Nights
Intimacy
Degenerate
Lay
Absolutely
Soon
Days
Well
Contempt
Mistress
Pass
His
Infallibly
Familiarity
Disgust
Aside
Breeding
Coarse
Good Breeding
Productive
Who
Ever
Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.
Pranab Mukherjee
Future
Peace
World
Prosperity
Rest
Example
Building
Way
India
Entire
Lead
New
How
Stability
Transformed
Region
Kashmir
Showing
Zone
Set
The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.
Pranab Mukherjee
Culture
Secular
System
Secularism
India
Indian
Fact
Remains
Cannot
Ethos
Inherent
The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.
Red Cloud
Day
Every Day
Every
Everywhere
See
Same
Them
Whites
Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources.
Robert Mugabe
Resources
Zimbabwe
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