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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
---African proverb

No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers.
---Author Unknown

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
---Leo Tolstoy

God has given us lemon, let us not ask for oranges. Let us make lemonade.
---PLO Lumumba

I refuse to believe that this country must run on the wheels of negative ethnicity where ones ethnic extraction is the touchstone of ability; that is a veritable tower of Babel . But worry the least - I have a perfect recipe for national cohesion. Let us combine the energy of the Luhya with the entrepreneurship of the Kikuyu, with a little dose of the Wakamba and Miji Kenda humility, the Maasai's zeal and zest and the Luo's quest for perfection and the beautiful qualities of all Kenyan nations and what looks like the tower of Babel will become the power of Babel.

---PLO Lumumba, on the occasion of Dinner Talk on Ethnicity as a Threat to Democracy in Kenya on October 21, 2003 at New Stanley Hotel, Nairobi organized by the Kenya Human Rights Commission.

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
---T. Alan Armstrong

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more
than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two
grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you
shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you
have them, they are not worth the search.
---Bassanio, Merchant of Venice