"Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development."

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Source : "Nigeria is defending our girls" by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2014.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#Girl Quotes #Growth Quotes #Development Quotes

“When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.”
“We knew the front door was always left open, but we broke in just to keep in practice. Doxy turned all the Washburn family photos to the wall so there wouldn't be any witnesses.”
“She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.”
“Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.”

Source : William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.”
“Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.”
“A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared”
“Seal the Deal, more than a traditional book, is a series of powerful coaching sessions dealing with a big breakdown that many excellent coaches and consultants face today: they donâ€™t know how to sell their services to organizations. Suzi Pomerantz not only knows, she can also coach us so we can learn that critical ability.”

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