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"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
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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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"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."

"We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."

"My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid."

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me."

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

"We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there."

"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
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