Bangambiki Quotes

Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot

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Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics

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Politics preys on people's naivety

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Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

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In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines

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We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life

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Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again

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Doubt is the first ray of illumination

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Isn’t time the only one true god? It makes and breaks

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All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or international levels

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They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people

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Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire

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Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason

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Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

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Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side

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The mind's health depends on what it feeds on. Avoid thoughts and conversations that kill your soul.

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It does not matter what you have but who you are

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Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem

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Every book has its ancestors

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Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

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Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

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I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

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One day I will write a book. An epitaph

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Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you

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Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.

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I came looking for life and I found you

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Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.

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When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

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I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away

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We are all heroes of our little worlds

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You should never consider finished a war you did not win

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Learn how they failed and succeeded, then fail on and succeed

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When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

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Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

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Writing is magic happening on paper

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Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

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Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

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Writing is self-pleasure

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Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide

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If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it

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If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

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The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

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Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

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Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

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A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

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Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

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People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

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The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

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You cannot write if you are not on fire

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How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

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You cannot write if you are not angry

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If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

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You never know what you will write until you write it

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Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it

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You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements

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Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

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Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts

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You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise

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. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

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A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

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