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#1

“Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: appearance, bad, character, destroyers, destruction, distractors, enemies, enemy, evil, evil-words, fiend, food-for-thought, good-self-image, gossips, haters, hatred, hurt, image, insults, kill, negative, negative-attitude, negative-people, negative-viewers, protect, protection, ruin, skin, tarnish, toxic-people, trouble, ugly-people, viewers, villian

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#2

“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: acceptance, affection, friendship, love, loyalty, power-of-love, secrets, true-friends, true-love, trust

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#3

“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: acid, attack, bad-people, calumny, chemical, counterfeit, deception, decievers, demon, devil, fake, fake-friends, fault-finders, food-for-thought, gossip, haters, hatred, hurt, incessant, insanity, negative, negative-people, pessimism, plot, ploy, pretence, pretenders, slander, slanderers, smiles, strategy, swindle, sycophants, toxic-people, trick, troubesome-people, trouble, villain

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#4

“Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attraction, bad, bad-people, bait, cheat, cheaters, cheating, corrosive, devil, devilish, dog, dogs, evil, fake-friends, false-colour, fools, gift, hate, haters, hatred, love, michael-bassey-johnson, negative, negative-people, negativity, pretence, pretension, sycophants, trick, trickish, tricky, wolves

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#5

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: affair, assurance, autonomy, believe-in-yourself, breakup, composure, detachment, development, disappearance, distance, escape, fade, freedom, hide, hideout, impression, independence, leg-pulling, let-go, letting-go, liberty, love, michael-bassey-johnson, neutrality, out-of-view, poise, prove, respect, self-control, self-reliance, self-rule, separation, single, sovereignty, survival, test, unconventional, unconventionality, vanish

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#6

“A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

tags: ascetic, astral-projection, contemplation, creativity, dreams, escape, journey, meditation, mind, thoughts, travel

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#7

“Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: annihilation, bad-people, concentration, cruel, curse, destruction, downfall, enemies, haters, hatred, image, karma, karmic, malice, malicious, michael-bassey-johnson, murder, negative-people, negativity, prayer, prayers, ruin, self-destruction, slippery, spoilers, tarnish, thinking-evil, witchcraft

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#8

“Some people are allergic to your success. Such people...when you smile...they cry, and wish you were dead.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#9

“The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#10

“People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: boo, bring-back, buddy, companion, consideration, don-t-go-away, experience, friends, friendship, friendships, good-times, impression, impressive, living, looking-back, love, never-give-up, reflection, relationship, relationships, remembrance, season, seasons, the-old-good-days, thinking, true-friends, trust, trustworthy, unforgettable, value, walk-in, walk-out, worth

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#11

“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: abstinence, affair, apart, breakdown, breakup, celibacy, celibate, chaste, cheating, courage, divorce, end, enstrangement, falling-in-love, falling-in-love-with-a-beast, final-decision, key, lock-up, love-affair, mercilless, michael-bassey-johnson, padlock, parting, sea, single

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#12

“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: achiever, attention, attitude, believe-in-yourself, character, confiding-in-yourself, estimation, eye-cany, eye-service, fake, false, ignorance, impress, impression, journey, michael-bassey-johnson, notice, pretence, pretending, pride, real, self-realization, show-off, the-real-man, what-you-are

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#13

“Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: anti-social, apathy, decievers, displeasure, dogma, dogmatic, egoism, egotism, egotist, fake-friends, feelings, flatter, flattering, impulse, impulsive, logic, madness, michael-bassey-johnson, misfit, mishap, pressure, reasoning, trick

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#14

“Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: animals, bad-friends, bad-people, beasts, dangerous-people, enemies, enemy-friends, friends, hatred, know-your-steps, malevolent-people, malice, oblivion, playing-with-fire, predators, relationships, spy-your-enemies, sycophants, terrorists, the-unknown-devil, watch-your-friends, wolves-in-sheep-clothing, worthless-people

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#15

“Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: backbiting, calumny, character, detractors, discreet, discretion, disease, diseases, enemies, false, gibberish, haters, health, infest, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, reputation, ruin, unhealthy

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#16

“Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: burden, detractors, distract, egocentric, egoism, egotism, egotist, fake-friends, fatal, laziness, lazy, michael-bassey-johnson, mission, narcissism, parasites, perch, satisfaction, self-absorbed, self-centred, self-interest, self-obsessed, vain

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#17

“You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#18

“Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: abort, abortion, bad-people, boring, bothersome, destruction, distractors, enmity, eradication, euthanasia, fake-friends, foetus, haters, kill, mercy-killing, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, sin, trouble, troublesome, unwanted

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#19

“When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attack, bad-people, demon, enemy, envious, envy, fortune, friendships, hate, haters, hating, hatred, invisible, jealous, jealousy, laziness, lazy, michael-bassey-johnson, people, relax, strategy, time, toxic-people, wake-up, work, worker, working

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#20

“We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: bad-people, brute, cherish, cruel, cruelty, enemies, enemy, givers, giving, greed, greedy, kill, killers, love-for-money, michael-bassey-johnson, money, patron, patronage, reprobates, value, villian, worth, worthy

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#21

“Good leaders come together to solve problems in order to make a peaceful coexistence, but just a single soul can become the leathery meat in the soup.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#22

“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: authority, bad, bad-leaders, bad-people, destruction, dominance, follower, followers, gibberish, great-thoughts, kingdom, lead, leader, love, michael-bassey-johnson, path, podeposition, purity, redirection, reflectihip, rubbish, rule, thought, thoughts, true-leader, true-love, virtue, vision

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#23

“These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attributes, bad, bad-behaviour, bad-friends, bad-people, bin, blur, companions, crazily, crazy, debris, deframe, demean, destroy, disbelieve, discredit, dispose, disvalue, downgrading, drive, endowments, food-for-thought, friends, friendship, good-friends, ideas, image, imaginations, michael-bassey-johnson, negative, negative-people, negativity, opinions, people, potentials, power, recycle-bin, stay-away, thought, toxic-people, value

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#24

“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: affair, affection, attachment, bond, care, caring, close, emotion, emotions, fellow-feeling, friendship, friendships, game, hide-and-seek, intimacy, love-affair, lover, lovers, michael-bassey-johnson, mutual-attachment, passion, play, relationship, seeker, sharing, true-love, truth

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#25

“A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: chaste, chasticity, cleanliness, coy, decision, eccentricity, firm-decision, incorrupt, ladies, ladies-quote, michael-bassey-johnson, purity, self-control, spotless, the-good-woman, the-real-woman, virgin, virginity, virtue, woman, woman-of-virtue

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#26

“A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

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#27

“Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: camoufladge, celebrity, fake-people, fame, famous, fans, honour, michael-bassey-johnson, popular, popularity, pride, respect, reverence, rising, show, slow-and-steady

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#28

“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, bad-influence, be-yourself, behaviour, believe-in-yourself, callow, childishness, company, etiquette, good-behaviour, good-quality, immature, immaturity, maturity, mediocre, mediocrity, negative-influence, negative-people, outstanding, peculiar, peculiarity, presence, quality, sensitivity, single, stand-alone

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#29

“I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: africa, africans, amorous, apartheid, attraction, black-people, color, common-sense, face, falling-in-love, fancy, human-beings, intelligence, knowledge, liking, love, memories, memory, michael-bassey-johnson, nigerians, race, wisdom, wise, wise-men, wise-people

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#30

“Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: acids, bad, corrosive, destroyers, destruction, detractors, enemies, enemy, evil, evil-words, food-for-thought, gossips, haters, hatred, hurt, insults, israelmore-ayivor, kill, negative, negative-attitude, negative-people, skin, toxic-people, trouble

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