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1139 Statesman Quotes

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Advanced Any Country Democracy
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Advances Book Date Enduring
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Democracy Development Indeed Land
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

Bed Complete Empty Long
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.

Communities Country Doubts Economy
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There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

Bedrock Built Core Ensuring
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To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

Aspirations Chance Committed Democratic
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

Alongside Basis Continue Country
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

Being Committed Generations Learn
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

Citizens Government Left Like
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing

Far Best Prize Offer
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

People Leader Boss Drive
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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Best Executive Sense Enough
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Seize Moment Action Intend
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Courtesy Mark Gentleman Courage
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Kick Pant Person Responsible
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Great Speak Thought Mind
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Old Age Success Start
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Important Single Ingredient Formula
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I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Pity Worth Admire Creature
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Hard Fail Worse Try
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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Great Mind Overcome Obstacle
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Destroy America Prosperity Peace
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Moment Decision Best Next
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Man Make Mistake Anything
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Job Men Prove Ability
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Vote Rifle Useful Depend
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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Ask Job Certain Busy
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Men Live Loft Ideas
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Human End Create End
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Dare Mighty Win Triumph
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Worth Salt Ready Risk
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Labour Pain Effort Energy
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Care Other Think Much
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Creativity Essence Originality Scholar
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Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Created Fight Heroism Image
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Endure Come Success Pray
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Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.

Country Built Territory Faith
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There is plenty of room at the bottom because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

Plenty Bottom Care Travel
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No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

Matter Old Individual Young
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The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.

Economic Possible Mentally Political
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It is, I think, enough for me to say that life itself is, from the cradle to the grave, a series of unbroken risks. I make no boast about this, but those who know me intimately will testify to the fact that I have never, at any time, shrunk from taking my full share of the risks which life, with its unending opportunities and vicissitudes, offers.

Enough Life Series Unbroken
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Wise Find Opportunty Wisdon
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Friendship Seldom Increase Visiting
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

GOd Purest Human Planted
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion Social Intercourse Form
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Life Soul Good Evil
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Judges Inferences Law Torture
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Corrolative Love Hate Neigbors
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Nature Forth Large Bounded
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