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"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"

"Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people"."

"We have taken decisive steps to curb corruption. We removed discretion in allocation of key resources and moved to transparent auctions of mines, spectrum and FM radio licenses. We have plugged leakages through DBT."

"Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable."

"I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion."

"The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers."

"It's not who you know, it's who you sleep with."

"Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics."

"The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it's not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs."

"Law enforcement are the facilitators of corporate fraud."
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"None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature."

"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."

"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."

"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."

"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."

"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."

"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."

"Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things."

"I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."

"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"
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