Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Quotes

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“That smoke can choke when fire is provoked is no joke. However, you can revoke a minor fire with coke. The yoke may be arduous but it does stroke it down.”

Fire Smoke Coke

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“Ironically, the rich who can afford extravagance are the ones who benefit the most from cheap commodities. They buy bulk and get robust discounts. They have what it takes to trap a valuable possession when it is reduced to a fling away price, due to desperation. Thus the rich keep getting richer.”

Price Richer Discount Bulk

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“Without being an elephant sycophant, it is relevant to note that an infant elephant is a lieutenant giant.”

Elephants Infant Giant Sycophant

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“Of what profit is it to a businessman who loses his capital in pursuit of profit? How fit is a person who sees it fit to engage in a misfit practice of hazarding into a business without the benefit of profit?”

Profit Businessman Misfit

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“If we resolve to display love like our loving God above, we will dissolve prejudice and solve many human ills.”

Love Prejudice Humanity And Society Solve Problems Dissolve

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“An elderly person who cannot see beneath the surface should donate his brain to a mechanic workshop for an experimental quick fix tutorial with apprentices.”

Mechanic Elderly Experiment Tutorial Quick Fix Apprentices

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“It is explicit that chieftains profit from abomination, but the merit of their authority is that the community also benefit. Illicit behavior is kept at a low limit making for a close knit unit.”

Community Profit Abomination Chief

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“Looking for your belongings far away from the vicinity of your bath place is to pinch trouble.”

Trouble Bathroom Faraway

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“Beyond a shadow of a doubt, some associates are nothing but shadow friends. When adversities cast shadow over us they stop pretending and become their real selves.”

Friendship Associates Shadows Pretence

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“If cock is male and hen is female, then the female of cockroach is ‘henroach’. Are you with me?”

Humor Cockroach

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“If cock is male and hen is female, then the female of cock-roach is ‘henroach’. Are you with me?”

Humor Cockroach

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“Some losses are severe enough to obliterate albeit temporarily the name, address of your bank and account details from your medulla-oblongata.”

Humor Loss Account

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“That ‘hasty climbers have sudden falls’ does not deter climbers from reaching the top hastily.”

Fall Hasty Climbers Top Sudden Hastily

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“Professionalism is the magic touch that works like magic. Unlike a magician he doesn’t just pop in and pop out with success; hard work and smart work must combine. The magic moment comes when he is announced as the worthy recipient of a meritorious award.”

Magic Professionalism Hardwork Award Smart Work Meritorious

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“It is said that men’s ears are slightly larger than that of women. By this men ought to be savvier than they are presently but the case is reversed. What an irony!”

Men And Women Irony Quotes Ear

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“Barbers are powerful; they command, and even kings comply without complain.”

Kings Command Barbers Complain Comply

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“Assisting others to achieve their worthwhile desires that they are incapable of accomplishing for themselves alone is the true definition of HELP".”

Achieve Alone Help Incapable Assistance

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“Regrettably, wayward behavior toward the elderly is a password for many youths today. Your watchword should be caution if a challenge is intended, and arm yourself with multiple arm’s lengths else you could lose some teeth and all you’ll get is an appalling apology.”

Apology Elderly Youths Password Wayward Appalling Watchword

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“Women are easier loved than understood. How do you understand someone who came into existence when you were sleeping?”

Women Understood Loved Sleeping Beauty

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“Needlessly scrutinizing friends is like the nuisance of going between the bark and the tree.”

Tree Bark Nuisance Scrutinize

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“Bridegroom means, groom your bride. This goes beyond the bloom of costume in the dressing room. You’ll so ‘perfume’ her till she begins to assume what you desire to consume. This way, any looming gloom is doomed and the ‘volume’ of your bliss will zoom to high heavens.”

Bride And Groom

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“Doing our most with time prevents us from being time constrained when there'll no time to check time.”

Time Constrained

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“You may be constrained to complain about the rain but you cannot restrain the rain. Can you rest rain? Nada!”

Rain Constrain Complain Restrain

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“Eagerness eliminates laxity and frivolity; it is a hunger that propels us to act with unrelenting effort. There is no stopping for a determined mind; even the possessor cannot restrain it.”

Eagerness Unrelenting Frivolity Determined Person Restrain Laxity

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“You may complain that rain has stained your plans but you cannot restrain the rain; rain is water and water is life. None appreciates rainbow and sunshine better than he on whose parade it has rained.”

Water Rain Sunshine Rainbow Restrain Parade

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“Why? Why does fun start funeral when it's a sorrowful situation? Why is the combination of con and science conscience when those with conscience don't con others? Can science con us? Why is the combination of rest and rain restrain when no one can restrain the rain?”

Science Fun Conscience Rain Funeral Rest Con Restrain

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“Tribute to the dead is meaningless. Corpses are 3D – dead, deaf and dumb. Only the living can appreciate their tributes. If only we tell the living the sweet things we tell their corpses, some would have lived longer or happier. If you have swallowed pleasantries to your beloved ones, start vomiting them right away to avoid food poisoning or constipation. When do you prefer your tribute, dead or alive?”

Death Tribute Pleasantries Vomit Words

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“We need not be afraid of being portrayed as unswayed fellows. Calling a spade a spade is no hate speech, rather it will likely dissuade the inexperienced from joining the parade of immorality that invade them.”

Afraid Immorality Inexperienced Invade Call A Spade A Spade Dissuade

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“The way the elderly extol their good old days leaves the youth almost concluding that there were no rascals. The reality is the absurdity that they are the remnant of men who with impunity plunged humanity into the impurity of putridity and calamity.”

Youth Absurdity Calamity Elderly Impunity Rascals Remnant

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“You cannot cling to the norm and desire innovation. You must think outside of the box to shake the table – possibly break it to pieces.”

Thinking Innovation Norns

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“Circumventing the natural sequence disorients our intrinsic constitution.”

Natural Laws Inherent Value Circumventing

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“It is a departure from nature for a vulture to venture into haircut adventure.”

Adventure Vulture Haircut

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“A nice cry is often needed to unwind. Even if you don’t have a nose for crying, blinking back tears is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.”

Crying Unwind Your Mind Blinking

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“Knocking knees are emboldened when they become bended knees before the Creator.”

Creator Knees Bow Embolden

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“When a person becomes comfortable with stupidity, it eventually defines him.”

Attitude Comfortable Stupidity Self Definition

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“Idle minds who’ll hardly sleep till they creep up on their victims, and peep out something deep for their cheap talk, should weep for themselves.”

Busybodies Peeping Idle People

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“Despite being a delight to attract Mr/Mrs Right, it'll be a matter of insight not to expect all to be right with him/her. Expecting otherwise will be uptight or outright oversight. There'll always be a blight no matter how slight that when brought to the limelight can cause affection flight. Fight it with your might if you will, this birthright is our common plight. It is therefore, foresight to to hold on tight to what you've got. Marriage is a decision to manage the imperfections of a fellow imperfect person.”

Alright Birthright Limelight Mr Right Mrs Right Affection Flight

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“Even if you are armed with a natural charm that disarms the armed without harm, don’t mess with a hungry man armed with firearm.”

Charm Hungry Man Armed And Dangerous

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“Good things seldom catch people flat-footed, they locate those working hard and smart.”

Ready Hard Work Unprepared

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“That the human ear increases with age while his hearing decreases, is a funny irony.”

Ear Hearing Quotes

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“The melancholy caused by man’s intransigence argues for a third ear if he is to be more vicarious.”

Melancholy Funny But True Ear

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“The ear that does not care to hear should not fear to bear a hot slap.”

Fear Rhyme Slap Hear Ear

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“The elderly were formerly young before being utterly overtaken by years. It is only orderly that they arrive first at our common destination of ageing. Tenderly treating the elderly is therefore entirely reciprocal.”

Young Destination Elderly Ageing Reciprocal Years Of Life Entirely Tenderly Overtaken

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“Don’t get mad, get even and the best even to get is to ‘four’give, i.e. give more than four times and counting.”

Humor Forgive Getting Even Getting Mad

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“That too many cooks spoil the soup may be true but the single hand that garnishes a pot is neither determined by beauty nor ugliness.”

Beauty Cooks Soup Ugliness Spoil

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“He who hunts a serpent, hunts a spicy soup. If he strikes the serpent dead, he prepares a spicy soup but if the serpent strikes him, a spicy anti-venom soup is prepared for him. Whether he prepares soup or soup is prepared for him, soup is soup; eat it he must.”

Hunting Soup Serpent Venom

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“Peepers should hammer it into their heads that intrusive curiosity is the precursor of offensive animosity.”

Curiosity Intrusion Peeping

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“The roar of a lion projects a jittery wave of terror that no mortal wants to mess with. It even brings boisterous insanity to instant attention; to attract a lion’s attention is to put one’s head in a lion’s mouth.”

Terror Lion Roar Jittery

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“A spinster who cannot ‘spin’ a worthwhile ‘star’ is a fallen ‘star’.”

Humor Rhyme Star Spinster

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