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"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
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"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."
"We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission."
"You are created to reflect heaven on earth."
"I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK."
"As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time."
"Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny."
"If you don't monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don't measure your life, you will regret it."
"Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life."
"We need to analyze our picture of the world."
"Neglect is a major reason for some of the most painful experiences we suffer in life."
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"An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic."
"I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific."
"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."
"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."
"An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary."
"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."
"Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects."
"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."
"Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves."
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