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“The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.”

Should Use Political Nations Power Willing Politician Tools South Minorities Allowing Territory Grandfather Estates Nigeria Great Grandfather

Author:Ahmadu Bello

“China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.”

“In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.”

Should Children Facts Power Fields Draws Observation Range Inference

Book:Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs

Source: Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs

“Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans.”

Should Mean Long Jobs Growth Term Quality Power Support Economy Economic Taxes Compromise Permanent Long Term Economic Growth High Quality

Author:Todd Tiahrt

“I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.”

Life Should Power Our Lives Equal Threat Response Experts Resent Equal Power

Author:Massad Ayoob

“Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?”

Love Should Power Wind Flower Approach Storm Overwhelming Lightning Scent Thunder Zephyr

Book:Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe

Source: Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe

“We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”

Life Should Book Reading Company Power Careful Be Careful Company We Keep

Author:Tryon Edwards

“What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.”

Should Trying Believe Littles Important Culture I Believe Power Media Victory Financial Strikes American Culture Symbolic Symbolism American Power

Author:James T. Walsh

“I think all negotiations should take place at a round table and everybody should have to rotate counterclockwise once an hour so that even the perception of head of the table, or foot, are ritually obliterated.”

Thinking Should Hours Power Feet Perception Should Have Tables Rounds Negotiation

Book:I Wish I Had a Red Dress: A Novel

Source: I Wish I Had a Red Dress: A Novel

“It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.”

Men Should Power Wife Maxims

Book:Comedy of the Beaux Stratagem with the Biography of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland

Source: Comedy of the Beaux Stratagem with the Biography of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland

“God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.”

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Book:Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity

Source: Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity

“Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?”

Should Wells Faces Power Management Should I Pretty Face Shitheads

Author:William C. Brown