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Whilst it is perfectly in order to constructively criticize public officers’ official actions and policies, it is absolutely wrong to make judgments about people’s characters to the extent of using foul language to describe them without having personal interactions with them.

Perfectly Constructively criticize Public officers
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. Posthumous eulogies teach us that people who dislike you also quietly admire your sterling qualities. The dislike only stems from their frustration as a result of their inability to make you accept their convictions about things that are dear to them like religion or politics

Posthumous eulogies Dislike you Admire
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So if you make the dislike or perception of people the barometer by which you adjust your life-pattern, then you have completely missed it. Live your life according to the dictates of your conscience and your natural inclinations, so long as they’re within the bounds of legality

Perception People Barometer Life
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Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.

Public officers Mind Power Limited time
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Since most viruses that cause pandemics (e.g Ebola, COVID-19) are contracted from animals, why can’t the world invest heavily in isolating these viruses in animals & develop human vaccines for them in anticipation that one day humans might contract the viruses from these animals?

Most viruses Animals World invest
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The greatest lesson of COVID-19 is that it has blurred all the irrelevant differences of mankind which are politics, tribe & religion. It has slapped our brains back to reset mode and teaches us that the essence of life is about our common humanity and our common survival as a race

Blurred Irrelevant differences Mankind
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It is very intriguing that it is the same set of people, including some members of the public, who always seek to hold public officers accountable (and who are always quick to cry ‘crucify him’) that also put them under pressure to contribute financially to everything they do.

Intriguing People Members Public
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It would appear that majority of those who demand accountability from public officers do so for selfish reasons as they really would not mind if they benefit from some unethical behavior of the public officers; their watchdog role is just to ensure that they are not ‘left out’

Majority Demand Accountability Selfish
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The preponderance of opinions in countries around the world is that majority of citizens are blaming their govts for not doing enough to curb COVID-19. We must be tolerant & allow people vent their opinions. It’s a sign of the times. The grass is always greener on the other side

Preponderance Opinions World Citizens
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The challenge that’ll soon face government around the world is how to keep their citizens safe from COVID-19 by imposing inactivity & at the same time how to keep them safe from poverty, hunger and depression as a result of the inactivity. It’s a decision between the rock and a hard place

Challenge Face Government World
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The anxiety of some members of the public at this time is understandable and so are their criticisms. Matters of life/health should top the agenda of government. Therefore the criticisms must be taken in good faith and government will continue to weigh all of them to respond appropriately.

Anxiety Understandable Criticism Life
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Let’s use this period of partial lockdown to reignite old friendships and our common humanity. It’s not a period of gloom, but precaution. Call up old friends; search for your childhood playmates on social media and chat them up. Soon, we shall return to our crazy daily schedules

Partial lockdown Reignite Old friendship
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God has allowed COVID-19 to afflict the human race only to redirect our steps back to Him. We have so distorted God’s Word to suit our own human weaknesses and satisfy our greed, even in supposed Holy Places. We should collectively ask for forgiveness and it will all end in praise

God Allowed Human race Redirect
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Absolutely! One of the qualities of a good Leader. Always wanting to hear the truth whether it's painful or not.

Absolutely Qualities Wanting Hear
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This is how every African should think for Africa to grow. Stop feeling inferior to Oyibo people. Na the same God create us. We have what they do not have while they have what we do not have. Love our own, appreciate…

Think Grow Stop feeling inferior
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Excellence is a way of life. It can only be achieved when it is pursued every day. Regardless of your vocation or profession, always strive to be better today, than you were yesterday.

Excellence Life Achieved Regardless
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Prayer is my propeller. It helps me hold it all together, and the distance I have covered is only because I draw strength from God’s presence.

Prayer My propeller Help
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Work hard at what you want, because it may not come to you without some determination and persistence.
Work hard Determination Persistence
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You can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else. Instead of putting anyone down, inspire them, change their life for the better, make them happy, make them smile, lift their spirit, and see what blessings will come your way.

Fix yourself Breaking someone Inspire them
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Surround yourself with people who will lift you higher. Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.
Surround yourself People Higher Down
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Don’t be deceived by what happens on social media. Obviously, there is something else actors are doing, perhaps other businesses to shore up their income.

Deceived Happens Social media
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I found this so hilarious but I thought - We fear the unknown no matter how helpful it is meant to be .. this is why combating a pandemic without public trust in government and health care delivery and without true community buy in will prove ineffective

Found Hilarious Fear Helpful
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So honoured to be on Forbes Woman Africa’s Power List of Africa’s Most Powerful 50 Women . Power is Influence , if anyone says they are leading and no one is following they are just taking a walk ! So grateful to God for the circle of influence He has blessed me with .

So honored Power Women
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The sure path to frustration is to try and control what is outside your circle of influence. Not everything that CONCERNS us is within our control . PEACE comes from knowing what lies beyond our control .

Sure path Frustration Control Influence
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Any Dead Dream Drop
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Architecture is not a building, it is a legacy that never fades.

Architecture Building Legacy Fades
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Cannot Destroy Drunk Must
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Even on the same WiFi , everyone’s file size is different. Don’t despair. The wait seems long because the file is large! You will rejoice!

Size Different Don't despair Wait
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Child Scientist Touch You
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Dream Dreams Grow GrowUp
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Building Cliff Down Jumping
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

After Bed Day Every
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Anything AnythingIsPossible Begins Best
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Bite Down Everything Finish
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Books Burn Culture Destroy
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Books Burning Crimes Reading
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Describe Future Prevent Try
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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Doing Like Then You
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Man Men World You
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I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Before Good Hard HardWork
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Must Simply Them Things
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I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Behind Companies Company Doing
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

Buy Down Found Funds
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Future Libraries NoFuture Past
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The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Always Been Game Most
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Fall Find How Jump
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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Afraid Any End Leaving
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Anything Creativity Enemy Lousy
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Almost Artist Chaos Confusion
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

American Been Busy Credit
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