Mr Wilson said he needed to know specifically what MLAs were prepared to accept, and he wanted to present a budget to the assembly as soon as possible.

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Here lies Goodluck Jonathan, he made Nigerians pay the right price for fuel and made life easy for everybody by making it known the only birthday present he would accept was a hat.

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"I can't imagine that a machine is going to tell a story and present it in a way that other human beings are going to accept it, " he said.

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One of the communities with such a motel has adopted a local ordinance requiring establishments that accept homeless referrals from the county to post a sign out front saying there may be sex offenders present.

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We present things in a light that we think will make it easier for others to accept.

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Yet two-fifths of Americans still refuse to accept that human beings share a common ancestry with animals, preferring to believe that they were created in their present form in the past 10, 000 years.

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