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Issue 126 Quotes and Numbers

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If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. - Alfred North Whitehead

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. - Manly Hall

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

Aye, but isn’t the man who chooses the bad in some way better than the man who has the good forced upon him?

 Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. - Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”

To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.  Amos Bronson Alcolt

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts--for support rather than for illumination. - Andre Lang

Another way in is the other way out; Never doubt where to exit; it is another entrance out. - Andrew S. Pudliner

Justice is considered to mean equality, it does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all. - Aristotle

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.  Bj Palmer

The only thing required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night Dican

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them---the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. - Dostoyevsky

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

 He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. - Goethe

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. - Henry David Thoreau

Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. - Henry Rollins.

 

Numbers

77,000,000,000

The amount of money National Insurance Corporation owes Makerere University staff.

250,000,000

Money spent by a UK charity organisation renovating St. Kizito Mpungwe Primary school in Buwenge Sub-county in Jinja district.

121,000,000

Money which the Chief Administrative Officer of Oyam district Andrew Chelegant Kamalingin and the District Chief Finance Officer Vincent Mugisha are accused of misappropriating.

65,300,000

The amount of money Leaf Tobacco commodities Uganda owes tobacco farmers in Arua district

1,745

Tenants from Naguru and Nakawa who will be resettled to pave way for the redevelopment of the two estates by Opec, a private investor. 

537

Number of assorted weapons recovered from poachers in Nebbi district.

100

Homes which were flooded in the city suburb of Busabala in Masajja zone after a heavy afternoon downpour. 

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