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Get Sense! A Nigerian Statement, Which Means Acquire Wisdom OR Be Wise.

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." 

Aristotle.


"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times." 

Paulo Coelho.


"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." 

Albert Einstein.


"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." 

Aristotle.


"May you live every day of your life."

 Jonathan Swift.


"Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly."

Langston Hughes

.......in all your getting, get wisdom.


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  1. Yes oooooooooh.
    I love this blog! To get sense is the real koko of the matter.

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