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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · 2d

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
-- Mark Twain

Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · 3d

Our Sponsor did not send us 10,000 miles to start the race;
Our Sponsor sent us 10,000 miles to finish the race.
-- Adapted.

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the Avatar 🇺🇳🧘‍♂️ @theavatar.bsky.social · 4d

“No group of people can spot hypocrisy any better than teenagers”.

Want to know how well you’re doing? Ask a teen!

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · 4d

“You can’t judge your brother’s state of need based on your brother’s state of peace.”
— David Jackson

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · 8d

Overheard -
"Polygamy is having one wife too many;
Monogamy is having one wife three many!"

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · 9d

The greatest distance in the universe is the long distance between the head and the heart; the distance between intellect and understanding. Check!

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · 9d

: “…When a man is at peace with his gods and his ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm”.
— Igbo Proverbs via Chinua Achebe

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · 9d

: "Let us perform the sacrifice and leave the blame on the doorstep of the gods."
— Igbo Proverbs

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · 21d

When life shuts a door…
open it… it’s a door, that’s how they work;
Now, if life locks the door, go find the key…
…don’t go in thru the window!

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · 22d

: "You don't become wealthy by queuing up and standing in line."
-- Igbo Proverb

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · 23d

It is difficult to dispel ignorance while filled with arrogance.

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Mr. I. @ekitah.bsky.social · 24d

Believe That ✊

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · 25d

: “A piece of gold that wants to shine must pass through fire. / Wúrà tó máa dán, á la iná kọjá.”
— Yoruba Proverb via Femi Akomolafe

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · 25d

Calm you shall keep, and carry on you must. Yes, hmmmmm.

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · 27d

: "If you cannot reason beyond petty sentiments, you are a liability to mankind! "
-- Chuba Okadigbo

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · Sep 13

: "A large chair does not make a king".
-- Igbo Proverb

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · Sep 11

: "The laughter of a child is the future of a house".
-- Igbo Proverb

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · Sep 3

: "One who ate our food, has forgotten our name!"
-- Igbo Proverb

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · Sep 2

: "A Man cannot have a Son before his Father".
-- Igbo Proverb

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · Aug 31

: “Do not be ashamed of your poverty unless you got it dishonestly.”
— Igbo Proverb

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · Aug 21

Love is what makes us Dance in the Face of Death.

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · Aug 21

: "A wise person will always be found by the path".
-- Igbo Proverb

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Eze Cyber 🇳🇬 @ezecyber.bsky.social · Aug 15

: "Truth has no color,
"Truth does not smell,
"Truth cannot be shaded, vanished, or buried - for long,
"Truth does not die"!
-- Igbo Proverb

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · Aug 11

“This telephone has too many shortcomings to be considered as a means of communication. The device is of inherently no value to us.” – Western Union internal memo, 1876

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Obi Taiwan 🇺🇳🇳🇬🇬🇧🇨🇳 奥比台湾 @obitaiwan.bsky.social · Aug 11

"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” – Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878

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