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"Don't live by your thoughts only; live by your words also. Whatever plans you think about, affirm it in your mouth first, declare it and you will succeed in working it out! Words can be powerful!"

"Just as every crop performs on its specific type of soil, and not all fishes can grow in every kind of water, so is leadership. You can't lead where you can't thrive; you can lead where you can survive!"

"Success is deliberate. It doesn't come as an accident. What you work for is what you achieve. Faith without work is a vain hope."

"Let your hands be clean, God loves clean hands and no wonder cleanliness is next to Godliness."

"I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key!"

"Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can't see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can't feel."

"Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command."

"Try again, you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot."
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"A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation."

"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."

"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."

"Experience is a sacred education."

"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."

"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."

"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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