"It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold."

-- Thomas A. Edison

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“If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.”
“The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.”

Source : Maria Shriver (2003). “Ten Things I Wish I'd Known - Before I Went Out Into the Real World”, p.92, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery”

Source : Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]
“If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.”
“One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.”
“The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.”
“I am not bound by material things. It's being successful that drives me forward. I love success. I don't wake up in the morning thinking 'Great - I've got one million pounds in the bank'. I wake up happy because I am a successful part of a successful team. It's that success that brings all the media coverage, the first-night parties, the endorsements. I will never lose sight of that. It has come very quickly - sooner than even I expected. But it's great to know that if I continue in the same vein, then I can do exactly what I want with the rest of my life. I will be financially secure.”
“A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.”

Source : Muhammadu Buhari’s Inaugural speech, www.vanguardngr.com. May 29, 2015.

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