"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom."

Wisdom, Respect, Interference, Business

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"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom."

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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"A book is a sacred gift."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"A man with wisdom will always have a solution no matter how big his challenges may be. Wisdom makes you a problem solver."

Patience Johnson, Nigerian Author

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"In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"In every situation, we can find sacred lesson."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"If you listen to many wise sayings, you will develop a strong-mind."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"It is better to be foolish than a dilettante."

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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

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"The best things in life are beyond money, their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value."

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"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep."

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"I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation."

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"He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange."

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"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."

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"Democracy is a poor system, the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method."

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"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."

Reality

"Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time."

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