Aminu Kano Quotes
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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I'm a television junkie.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
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Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
