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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"

"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"

"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."

"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."
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"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."
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