"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."

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"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

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"Time is a precious gift."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

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"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."

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"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."

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"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."

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"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"

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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

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"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."

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"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

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"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."

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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

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