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1139 Statesman Quotes

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Stripped Curse Plenty Bare
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

World Before Halfway Around
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“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

Sentence Something Preposition Which
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

People Responsible Mean Being
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership Art Done Want
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Command Wealth Free Our
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Compensate Sense Humor Imagination
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Hazard Ridicule Incur Abhorrence
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Willing Enough Apply Knowing
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All art is but imitation of nature.
Nature Art Imitation But
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Whole Secret Fox Lion
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Believe Been Denied Until
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Halfway Believe Can There
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Know Define Ask Act
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Give Make What Life
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Worth Kind Force Break
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship Growth Plant Adversity
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Indulge Supposition Morality Caution
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Labor Alive Conscience Little
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate Quality Reputation Better
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Foolish Wicked Profane Practice
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Political System Right People
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Virtue Withstand Highest Bidder
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Freedom Speech Dumb Sheep
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There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Science Literature Patronage Promotion
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

Achieve Fight Must Peace
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Enemies Friends Make Peace
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

Also City Ground Heart
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I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.

I Can Imagine Myself Palestinian
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
About Learn Lessons Make
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After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

Rain Sunshine Darkness Dawn
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Small, opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Small Opportunities Great Enterprises
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It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Peace Disintegrate Better We
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Debate Culture History Divergence
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Freedom Effort Present Store
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Appreciate Cannot Caught Changing
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Affliction African Communities Fault
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Achievement Alone Available Away
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Blunder Correct Democracy Mistake
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Aspire Bring Business Each
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

Apology Choice Chose Even
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

Afford Cannot Dimension Forces
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Analyst Authority Believe Event
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Complex Foundation Freedom Lay
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Democracy Experience Foundation History
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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Course Destination Distance Historical
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Across Ages Books Civilization
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Attributes Change Character Conviction
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

Approach Development Economic Focused
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