{"author":"Mamur Mustapha","author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha","total_quotes":25,"quotes":[{"text":"Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["beauty","feelings","life","moments","nature","people","sense-of-self","time","understanding","words-of-wisdom"],"id":2757,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"},{"text":"It is difficult to stop people from thinking on their own and exceedingly so, to get them to think on their own.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["life","mind","originality","people","propaganda","thinking","truth"],"id":10983,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"},{"text":"Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["death","destiny","life","mockery","prophecy","reality","truth","war"],"id":37212,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"},{"text":"My freedom to say 'No' directly underscores your freedom to say 'Yes'. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT your freedom.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["freedom","freedom-of-expression","freedom-of-speech","individual","liberty","respect","rights"],"id":47057,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"},{"text":"The bottom-line is, that nothing should affect your bottom-line.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["bottom-line","business","profit","profitability","strategy"],"id":79380,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"},{"text":"I do not know how it all started, but I would certainly play my part in how it all ends.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["death","faith","god","knowledge","life","philosophy","politics","religion","science","truth"],"id":87222,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"},{"text":"Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["change","chaos","logic","observation","order","philosophy","politics","science","truth"],"id":106702,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"},{"text":"History has always been violent, unstoppable and bound to happen; either with or without you. Acknowledge it.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["continuity","history","life","people","politics","reality","realization","truth","violence"],"id":115441,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"},{"text":"When life's adversities overwhelm you, look beyond your circumstances with an absolute trust that God is in control.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["adversity","control","faith","god","life","struggle","trust"],"id":136523,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"},{"text":"In today's world, honesty has unfortunately morphed into an extremely expensive hobby...And is no more a virtue that it once was. By the same token, not everyone has what it takes to pay the price for indulging in it and maintaining it, relentlessly, under all circumstances.","author":"Mamur Mustapha","tags":["behaviour-change","honesty","life","people","philosophy","reality","regression","values","virtues"],"id":146056,"author_id":"Mamur+Mustapha"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}