"Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire."

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Bias of Priene

#Government Quotes #Law Quotes #Empires Quotes

“What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.”
“My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.”
“At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent .”
“Mobile is something I think about all the time now.”
“I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.”

Source : "Annalena McAfee: 'I see myself as a recovering journalist'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.
“Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.”
“I like having a routine, because everything else is so unpredictable.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.”

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