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Philip Emeagwali

"Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources."

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"Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

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