"Africansâ€¦ their tired. Theyâ€™re tired of being the subject of everybodyâ€™s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform."

-- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#Grateful Quotes #Tired Quotes #Destiny Quotes

“Good art inspires; Good design motivates.”
“I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.”
“IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didnâ€™t face much competition.”
“I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.”
“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
“No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.”
“I never boned a honey that I didn't like, I never saw a mile that I couldn't hike. I never had a spliff to make me choke, I never had a pocket that was broke.”
“Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.”

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