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To dream of the person you would like to be is
to waste the person you are.
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The only real mistake a person makes is the one
from which he learns nothing.
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To understand people, I must be able to
understand what they are not saying, what they perhaps will never be able to
say.
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Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow you;
don’t walk beside me, I may not lead you; walk beside me and be my friend (camus)
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Is the boy you were happy with the man you
are? (John L. Mason).
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Without doubts, man would be more or less a
thinking being; in other words thoughtless. (Muogbo Michael).
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Many people succeed momentarily by what they
say, some people succeed temporarily by what they do and few people succeed
permanently by doing what they say.
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One way to save the face is to keep the lower
half shut.
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Life must be understood backward but lived
forward. (Soren Kierkegaard).
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Some people are so unconvincing that even their
own shadows cannot afford to keep them company. (M.M.I.)
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Prayer before everything, above everything.
Setting aside prayer to do more work is a ruinous expedient. Work done at the
expense of prayer benefits neither ourselves nor others. (Father Alberione).
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Nobody is too young to be a teacher and nobody
also is too old to be a student.
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Performance of one’s duty should be independent
for public opinion.
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We are lonely because we build walls instead of
bridges.
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A critic is a reminder of consequences. (Muogbo
Michael).
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Coincidence is when God works a miracle and then
decides to be an anonymous.
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The value of man is not seen in the dignity of
his being but in the worth of his being. (Muogbo Michael).
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An obstinate man does not hold opinion but
opinions hold him. (Alexander Pope).
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There is only a degree of difference between a
hot water and a steam. (John L.Mason)
Ø
The difference between a suggestion and an advice is that a suggestion provides an
individual with two options out of which one is his idea and the other is not
he’s while an advice provides an individual with only one option which is not
his idea, and he is expected to work with it. (Muogbo Michael).
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Suggestion is when one tries to impose on
another what he will do if he is in the position of the person. (Muogbo
Michael).
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Criticism is to an idea, what a catalyst is to a
chemical reaction. (Muogbo Michael).
Ø A great deal of
contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: 'Of course I do not like
green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry.'(G. K. Chesterton ).
Ø Abuse
is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. (Samuel
Johnson ).
Ø But
whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to
get at his meaning, not to find yours. (John Ruskin ).
Ø Criticism
is not subjective to personal opinion. (Muogbo Michael).
Ø A
critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. (Kenneth Tynan).
Ø Criticism
is not intended to be a dogmatic theory; but it is necessary. (Muogbo Michael).
Ø Ideas
may be dogmatic but facts are sacred. (Muogbo Michael)
Ø A
pessimistic sees his quarrel victim and turns left while an optimistic sees him
and says “please remind me what I said that day”. (Muogbo Michael).
Ø This
ideas, they don’t tremble me neither do they marvel me____that is lukewarmness.
(Muogbo Michael).
Ø You
can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to
frighten you. (Eric Hoffer )
Ø Hatred
is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. (José Ortega y Gasset).
Ø If
you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What
isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.( Hermann
Hesse).
Ø Anything
that has a specific beginning have a certain end, inevitable. (Muogbo Michael).
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