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Quotes by Statesman
"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."
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"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
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"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die."
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"In the journey of nation-building, integrity and selfless service pave the path to enduring success."
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"So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm."
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"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."
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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
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"We all carry success gene within us, but its manifestation is our responsibility."
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"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
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"Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success."
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"Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action."
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"The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal."
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"No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
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"Inbetween yesterday's regret and tomorrow's dream is today's opportunity. Seize the chance!"
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"If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
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"You are a success and nothing will stop your shining!"
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"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."
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"Every part of Nigeria is blessed."
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"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities " but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world."
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"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
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"You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks."
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"I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best."
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"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."
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"If there are difficulties on your way, be thankful for them because they will test and refine you as fire does to gold and if you will overcome, you will come out a winner, wizard and overcomer."
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"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
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"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
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"A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival."
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"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."
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"In you is the ability that will move you from nonentity and mediocrity to an entity of meteority. Take responsiblity now!"
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"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."
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"Every invention began as an imagination."
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"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
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"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
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"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
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