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"The path to success is often filled with obstacles, but it is those who persevere that ultimately triumph."

"... if a picture is worth a thousand words, an insight is worth more than a billion numbers."

"Nestorius reaffirms the unity of Christ despite the distinction between the natures, opposing the doctrine of Cyril of the single nature; he speaks of the “person” of the Son, in whom the relationship between the two natures is realised in a manner that is completely different from any other possible relationship between God and human beings. Nestorius is therefore careful to avoid the accusation of Christological dualism."

"Now, first of all, they believed in an orthodox manner in the preaching of the Apostles who lived [at the time of] Constantine [...]. Later, Satan, who has been the enemy of man since ancient times, rose up and seduced the people of the land of Byzantium, and they corrupted the Faith of Christ and introduced heresy into the Church of God through the mouth of Nestorius."

"The error of Nestorius, who refused to acknowledge that Blessed Mary is the Mother of God, is likewise excluded. Both Creeds assert that the Son of God was born or was made flesh of the Virgin Mary. The woman of whom any person is born is called his mother, for the reason that she supplies the matter for human conception. Hence the Blessed Virgin Mary, who provided the matter for the conception of the Son of God, should be called the true mother of the Son of God. As far as the essence of motherhood is concerned, the energy whereby the matter furnished by a woman is formed, does not enter into the question. She who supplied matter to be formed by the Holy Spirit is no less a mother than a woman who supplies matter that is to be formed by the energy latent in male seed. If anyone insists on maintaining that the Blessed Virgin ought not to be called the Mother of God because flesh alone and not divinity was derived from her, as Nestorius contended, he clearly is not aware of what he is saying. A woman is not called a mother for the reason that everything that is in her child is derived from her. Man is made up of body and soul; and a man is what he is in virtue of his soul rather than in virtue of his body. But no man’s soul is derived from his mother. The soul is either created by God directly, as the true doctrine has it, or, if it were produced by transplanting, as some have fancied, it would be derived from the father rather than from the mother. For in the generation of other animals, according to the teaching of philosophers, the male gives the soul, the female gives the body."

"Proud Queen of isles! Thou sittest vast, alone, A host of vassals bending round thy throne: Like some fair swan that skims the silver tide, Her silken cygnets strew'd on every side, So floatest thou, thy Polynesian brood Dispers'd around thee on thy Ocean flood, While ev'ry surge that doth thy bosom lave, Salutes thee "Empress of the Southern Wave.""

"And, oh Britannia! should'st thou cease to ride Despotic Empress of old Ocean's tide;— Should thy tam'd Lion—spent his former might— No longer roar, the terror of the fight:— Should e'er arrive that dark, disastrous hour, When, bow'd by luxury, thou yield'st to pow'r; When thou, no longer freest of the free, To some proud victor bend'st the vanquish'd knee;— May all thy glories in another sphere Relume, and shine more brightly still than here; May this—thy last-born —then arise, To glad thy heart, and greet thy eyes; And float, with flag unfurl'd, A new in another world!"

"All my novels are about moral questions ... Most of us want to believe in something: politics, religion, saving the world, and there comes a point in people's lives, usually in their 30's, when their faith is shaken in that belief. A lot of my books have dealt with that moment of crisis. Because I've tried to be truthful, the s rarely solve their problems."

"The street outside was a university bywater, once a good residential area, which had lately been reduced to the level of taking in paying guests. Miss Hearne stared at the houses opposite and thought of her aunt's day when there were only private families in this street, at least one maid to every house, and dinner was at night, not at noon. All gone now, all those people dead and all the houses partitioned off into flats, the bedrooms cut in two, kitchenettes jammed into linen closets, linoleum on the floors and 'To Let' cards in the the s."

"She came out near the and turned hastily back towards the . The docks were no place for a woman to be wandering about, in among all those rough pubs and the Salvation Army. At , the clock said half-past four. Go home. She walked back toward Camden Street. It began to drizzle but she was thinking about money, so she paid it no heed."

"was the great day of the week. To begin with, there was , early Mass with Holy Communion, or a late Mass where you were likely to see a lot of people. The special thing about Sunday Mass was that for once everyone was doing the same thing. Age, income, station in life, it made no difference: you all went to Mass, said the same prayers and listened to the same sermons. Miss Hearne put loneliness aside on a Sunday morning."

"So, to each one of you, I say: dream big, work hard, and never give up. Your journey might be filled with challenges, but remember, it is these challenges that forge the strongest steel."

"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it. It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."

"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. It is called learning from the school of hard knocks. It made me street smart. It equipped me with a greater sense of determination and vision."

"It is very easy to become motivated if you lived in one of the harshest places in the world and become aware that a good education offers an opportunity for a better life."

"Science grows by accumulation of knowledge. The Internet does not have one birth date or place"

"I wouldn't say I'm a genius. I would say I'm a problem solver."

"The greatest advancements in science and technology are achieved through perseverance and dedication."

"Innovation is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought."

"Sharing insights, trends, and educational content helps democratize knowledge and foster a community of continuous learning. It’s incredible."

"Continuous learning was crucial to stay relevant, but the rapid pace of advancements seemed never-ending..."

"Some gates you pray to open… will flood your life. Not with favour. But with fire alongside the favor."

"If MTN ever calls us, just know it’s not us. It will be God."

"When you pray for floodgates of heaven to open to you, prepare as the flood won’t wait for your feelings."

"And the gates didn’t just open, they tore off their hinges."

"“That was blood money, my blood was in that deployment.”"

"“He that is down fears no fall.”"

"Not all silence is rejection. Sometimes, and that is mostly the case, it’s preparation."

""If you want to make big money, you have to do big work”"

"“Our vision is to build platforms that enable millions of businesses and individuals to be able to achieve more on a daily basis”"

"Selling honey in my Youth Corper uniform actually helped me overcome my fear of rejection."

""I didn’t leave Nigeria in search of escape. I was as fulfilled as one could be - purpose-driven, grounded, and in motion. But couldn’t settle."

"The well-informed surgeon must not consider it an unnecessary condescension to occupy himself with cares which the vulgar consider too minute and unimportant, but which, if neglected and forgotten, so often entail the most disastrous results."

"He was an excellent observer and a great worker, who knew how to adopt and adapt others' ideas very practically."

"The mutual relationship between the mystery of the Church and Mary appears clearly in the "great portent" described in the Book of Revelation: "A great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars" (12:1). In this sign the Church recognizes an image of her own mystery: present in history, she knows that she transcends history, inasmuch as she constitutes on earth the "seed and beginning" of the Kingdom of God. 139 The Church sees this mystery fulfilled in complete and exemplary fashion in Mary. She is the woman of glory in whom God's plan could be carried out with supreme perfection. The "woman clothed with the sun"-the Book of Revelation tells us-"was with child" (12:2). The Church is fully aware that she bears within herself the Saviour of the world, Christ the Lord. She is aware that she is called to offer Christ to the world, giving men and women new birth into God's own life. But the Church cannot forget that her mission was made possible by the motherhood of Mary, who conceived and bore the One who is "God from God", "true God from true God". Mary is truly the Mother of God, the Theotokos, in whose motherhood the vocation to motherhood bestowed by God on every woman is raised to its highest level. Thus Mary becomes the model of the Church, called to be the "new Eve", the mother of believers, the mother of the "living" (cf. Gen 3:20)."

"Eve was condemned to sadness, to tears, to the pains of childbirth, to death, for having lent her ear to the evil suggestions of the hostile serpent; and it was just. But how would this blessed Virgin who has shown herself obedient to God, how would this Virgin united in all her being to God become the prey of death and the prisoner of the tomb?"

"The First-born of the Father is born of the Virgin, in order that the disobedience caused by the serpent might be destroyed in the same manner in which it had originated. For Eve, an undefiled virgin, conceived word of the serpent, and brought forth disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary, filled with faith and joy, when the angel Gabriel announced to her the good tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her, and the power of the Highest would overshadow her, and therefore the Only One born of her would be the Son of God, she answered: "Be it done unto me according to thy word" (Lk. 1:35). And, indeed, she gave birth to Him, concerning whom we have shown so many passages of Scripture were written, and by whom God destroys both the serpent and those angels and men who have become like the serpent, but frees from death those who repent of their sins and believe in Christ."

"For as Eve was seduced by the word of an angel to avoid God after she had disobeyed His word, so Mary, by the word of an angel, had the glad tidings delivered to the her that she might bear God, obeying His word. And whereas the former had disobbeyed God, yet the latter was persuaded to obey God in order that the Virgin Mary might be the advocate of the virgin Eve."

"For into Eve, as yet a virgin, had crept the Devil's word, the framer of death. Equally, into a virgin was introduced God's Word, the builder of life; so that what had been lost throught one sex might by the same sex be restored and saved."

"Cybersecurity is no longer a backroom issue. It must stand as a central pillar of national development, economic stability, and business sustainability. A single breach could disrupt supply chains, erode trust, and cost billions."

"A secure Nigeria is a prosperous Nigeria and Cybersecurity is the insurance policy for our digital future."

"At Routelink Enterprise, we are privileged to partner with the world’s leading cybersecurity OEMs to help Nigerian enterprises build resilience. A secure Nigeria is a prosperous Nigeria. Cybersecurity is the insurance policy for our digital future and the time to invest is now."

"The world has become a global village, with technology being a major driver."

"The increasing cases of cyber-crimes is a cause for worry today. However, it should not define or limit the push for the adoption of mobile money."

"You no longer need millions to build scale. With the right tools, platforms and strategic partnerships, young businesses can now reach markets and audiences that were once impossible."

"The barrier is no longer capital, it is creativity and clarity of purpose."

"Routelink is excited about the opportunities that abound in the Nigerian telecom marketplace and is determined to make a major difference as regards quality of service and innovation."

"The existing and evolving intelligent innovations must become a major consideration for us, especially with our increased dependence on these solutions for well-being and a better living for our citizens."

"Indigenous innovation, not foreign tech, is Nigeria's path to prosperity."

"Patronising our locally developed software and hardware by government agencies and by organisations operating in Nigeria, is the best thing that Nigerians can ever do because there are lots of benefits."