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In the comfort of our offices, let us not forget that majority of our people live below the poverty line.

— Goodluck Jonathan

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The best advertisement for good governance is its positive expressions of happiness in the lives of the governed.

Democracy is a journey that every nation mindful of advancing the liberty of its citizens must undertake.

I am happy that the black man has put the shame of dispossession behind him and is moving on.

Over-dependence on oil has put an unpleasant bracket in our national economic freedom.

We may not have overcome our challenges, but neither have our challenges overcome us.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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