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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell
Character
Conscientious
Duty
Energetic
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
Being
Different
Different Things
May
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It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.
Horace Walpole
Difficult
Vanity
Impossible
Self love
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If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
Howard Hughes
Worked on
Assumption
True
Hope
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.
Emile Durkheim
Man
Moral life
Society
Solidarity
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion
Vincent Bugliosi
Hear theists
Atheists
Know God
Exist
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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Highest type
Efficiency
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Material
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Peace
Dreams
Vanish
Ashes
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
Marquis de Sade
Fear not
Precautions
Protective contrivances
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No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.
Mark Ruffalo
Great advancement
Ideology
Nor greed
Progress
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.
James Clerk Maxwell
Great advantage
Student
Original memoirs
Science
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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
James Clerk Maxwell
Conscious ignorance
Prelude
Real advance
Science
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The only way some people can get relevance is by criticizing you. When that starts to happen, do not be upset. It simply means you are doing well.
Otunba Akin Alabi
Get relevance
Criticizing you
Be upset
Doing well
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When you are scarce, you remain more relevant and valuable.
Yinka Ayefele
When you
Are scarce
More relevant
Valuable
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Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
Thomas Harris
Think
Persuade me
Appeals
Intellectual vanity
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne
Be able
Alone
Advantage
Solitude
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We must take advantage of this period to rebuild bridges previously destroyed by our inability to recognize that we all exist for one another.
Uche Ekwunife
Take advantage
Rebuild bridges
Destroyed
Inability
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As believers, we must take the advantage of this period to show kindness to one another, particularly to the poor and the most vulnerable in our society.
Uche Ekwunife
As believers
Show kindness
One another
Poor
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Our political advance will be of no value if it is not supported by economic progress
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Political
Value
Economic
Progress
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
Thomas More
Servant
Better
Master
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It is common knowledge that civil servants are expected to tender advice to Ministers but it was not obligatory on the part of Ministers to accept advise so tendered. It will therefore be wrong to blame civil servants for mistakes made by their Ministers who in many cases did not accept the advice given to them by these officers.
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
Common
Knowledge
Civil servant
Minister
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We spend our meagre resources in maintaining peace and order, often to the advantage of the military industrial complexes in the so-called developed world. The gap between them and us then grows even wider, we become even weaker and create greater conditions for the interference of the developed countries in our domestic affairs.
Murtala Mohammed
Spend
Meagre
Resources
Military
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As we advance closer and closer to attaining that tomorrow of our dreams, we need not only align, but must pull together, to shrug off tendencies and avoid strictures that accentuate our fault lines
Benedict Ayade
Advance closer
Attaining
Tomorrow
Our dreams
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But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.
Bill Maher
Females
Most advanced
Muslim countries
By law
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We need to work out mechanisms that will place us where we ought to be today among the more advanced nations of the world. The faulty national operation with which Nigeria is being governed today is not sustainable and must give way.
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
We need
Work out
Mechanisms
Place us
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Our State no doubt has comparative advantage in these 2 key sectors and we believe that increased investments in these sectors will boost our IGR, create more jobs & ultimately protect our State against the vulnerability of global oil prices, which has affected Nigeria's revenues.
Gboyega Oyetola
Comparative advantage
Key sectors
We believe
Increased investment
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Let me take this opportunity to remind us all that the laws guiding the operation of this lockdown and the general security of the people are in force and relevant security agencies are on alert to ensure total compliance and guarantee the safety and security of the people.
Gboyega Oyetola
This opportunity
Remind us
Laws guiding
Operation
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You can be locked down but you don't need to be locked out.Engage your mind,advance your skills,refresh your ambitions and activate your visions
Akanimo Odon
Can be
Locked down
Locked out
Engage
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
Blaise Pascal
Curiosity
Vanity
Know something
Talk
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The Lord is not compelled to use theologians. He can take snakes, sticks or anything else, and use them for the advancement of his cause.
Billy Sunday
The Lord
Compelled
Use theologian
Takes snakes
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The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.
Bill O'Reilly
The world
Fascinating
Difficult place
Full advantage
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We are in this together. And together we shall overcome. I call on the Youth of Nigeria to be at the vanguard of dissemination of timely and accurate information via social media to Nigerians in their communities.
Sunday Akin Dare
This together
Shall overcome
Youth
Vanguard
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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
Agatha Christie
Gave
Much rein
Imagination
Good servant
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
Agatha Christie
Engaged
In eating
The brain
Servant
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
Alan Dean Foster
Spontaneity
Joys
Existence
You prepare
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I seize this opportunity to challenge women in STEM to actively pave way for more women to build sustainable carriers, for the gender equity in STEM and for building an advanced society.
Pauline Tallen
Opportunity
Challenge women
Actively
Pave way
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
Alex Grey
Artist
Form
Revelation
An advance
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A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
Aleister Crowley
Single ego
Absurdly narrow
Vantage point
The world
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I remain hopeful that these years have been a catalytic culmination of intentional, educational and strategic efforts that offer a glimpse at centuries of quality advocacy, advancements and assistance.
Toyin Saraki
Remain hopeful
Catalytic culmination
Intentional
Educational
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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Live
Vanity
Unreasonable
Mortification
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
Alvin Toffler
Learning
Rowing
Advance
Drop back
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Cities
Advantages
Hostile
Liberal
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France
People
Who have
No weakness
Are terrible
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it is crucial that we eliminate barriers that will disenfranchise our young girls from taking the most advantage to improve their education due to financial or social challenges.
Rebecca Akufo-Addo
Crucial
Eliminate barriers
Will disenfranchise
Young girls
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If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
Anne Bradstreet
If
Do
Prove
Advance
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People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.
Anthony Hopkins
People
Tell you
Are thinking
Advance
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The schools that fail to meet the minimum National standards based on student/teacher ratio, results from state standardized tests, quality of teachers should be designated educationally disadvantaged and affirmative action put in place to create pathways for the students.
Osita Chidoka
The schools
Fails
Minimum
National standards
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The designation of schools not states as educationally disadvantaged will remove the stigma of intelligence or lack as function of birth. It is demeaning
Osita Chidoka
The designation
Schools
Educationally disadvantage
Stigma
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I think it is time we abolish Educationally Disadvantaged States and focus on Educationally Disadvantaged Schools to promote equity and inclusion for student with poor access to quality education.
Osita Chidoka
I think
Time
We abolish
Educationally disadvantaged
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Honor is decency without vanity.
Arthur Koestler
Honor
Decency
Without vanity
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