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01Undated

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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02Undated

A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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03Undated

Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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04Undated

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

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05Undated

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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06Undated

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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07Undated

Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy.

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08Undated

Education will teach you ephemeral things. God will teach you wonders.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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09Undated

Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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10Undated

After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

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11Undated

When someone comes around at that dreary moment, when all hope was lost, and thorns emerged. And that fellow, walks on that thorn just to cross to your side, to bear the pains for your sake, to bleed, to self-destroy himself, just to protect you. He places you above his priorities, and doesn't give a damn whatsoever taunt he receives, his foremost desire is to make sure you are save, feel loved and cared for, and that's the true definition of love.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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12Undated

There comes a time when one suddenly discovers that there will never be a time for the coming of the perfect person, or believe that God sends people from heaven, so one finds a random fellow, either righteous or unrighteous, excellent or Impaired, and in no time become what God had ordained.

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13Undated

Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you.

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14Undated

The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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15Undated

People can copy anything; your mode of dressing, the way you talk, walk, dance, sing, cry, but they will find it very hard to imitate the way you donate money.

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16Undated

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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17Undated

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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18Undated

Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts! surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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19Undated

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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20Undated

At last, you will not be remembered for roaming the earth as a non-entity, but by every word, and every miracle, and every love, and every seed that ever came from the innermost part of your heart.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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21Undated

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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22Undated

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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23Undated

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.

Michael Bassey Johnson / quote

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24Undated

The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.

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