Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.

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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

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