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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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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Science is not gadgetry.
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People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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Robertspiere sic, Robertspiere alone in vain raised his voice against the perfidious decree regarding superior conscripts, but his voice was muffled.
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The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
