"My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?"

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Source : Nnamdi Azikiwe's remarks on Nigerian Independence (October 1, 1960), as quoted in "Between then and now" by Olatunji Ololade at "The Nation Online", March 10, 2009.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

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“Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.”
“An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.”
“Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.”
“Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.”
“What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.”
“God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born upon this day, To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy! For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born on Christmas Day.”
“Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.”

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