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"ONE BAD MOMENT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE."
"One bad moment can change your life forever.
I married my wife Bimbola, a British Citizen in the UK. The Home Office refused to grant my application for leave to remain. I reported at police stations for eight years. They also detained me for five weeks and tried to deport me through Gatwick Airport, and I decided not to waste my life.
So, I decided to study law, with a bias towards immigration and asylum laws, to help others. I became a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. I set up a law firm I have run for over 20 years. I have argued in courts all over the United Kingdom and helped thousands of people get settled in the UK.
The icing on the cake was that my three children also became lawyers. The two eldest sons saw me when I was detained at Tottenham Police Station in August 1998. They followed me to the immigration courts when they refused to grant me bail. They visited me in detention when the Home Office detained me for five weeks. They followed me to the family courts, the employment tribunal, the criminal courts, and the civil courts. They saw their dad in action. One by one, they became lawyers. This is our revenge. This is our reaction—a positive response.
So, don’t let disappointment, failure, or misfortune limit you. Turn them into an advantage. Don’t die, don’t be depressed, and don’t be discouraged.
I will forever be grateful to the UK Immigration Authorities for not granting my application when I applied. It helped me to become a man of significant influence around the world.
You have read my story. Could you not give up, my friends? The world is waiting to hear your story. Just like the Bible says, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord,” I can boldly say that as for me and my children, we will not only serve the Lord but also deliver those suffering from injustice.
My name is Dele Olawanle. I am a coach. I think, write, and speak to improve lives. Follow me for more insights and inspiration."-Dele Olawanle's post on X-platform (2025).
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"This is the face of the young man that silenced Albert Einstein and made him scratch his head contemplatively in front of a large audience.
This lanky young man with a bony face and a corn-silk hairstyle forced the famous Albert Einstein to have a second thought, and a minute later, he retracted an equation he had just finished presenting at a conference.
The year was 1930, and the event was a German Physical Society conference held in Leipzig. After the president of the association profoundly praised Einstein for his great speech to the thunderous applause, he asked if anyone in the audience had any questions. For a little while, silence seared across the hall. Who would dare to question Einstein, one of the world's most respected physicists?
A juvenile-like voice erupted from the last row of the room in a broken German language, spitting words that held the audience spellbound:
"What Professor Einstein said is not stupid, but the second equation he wrote does not follow from the first. In fact, it requires further assumptions that have not been made and, what is worse, it does not satisfy a criterion of invariance, as it should instead be". He echoed fearlessly.
All heads turned reflexively towards this bold, defiant voice that submerged everyone in disbelief, unable to contain their irrepressible astonishment in the engulfing noiselessness.
As they struggled to breathe under this bizarre sea of bafflement, wondering who that might be, Einstein was deeply lost in scrutinizing his said erroneous equation on the blackboard, almost transfixed by the new revelation, except for his hand, which was mechanically scratching his mustache.
After what appeared to be 60 seconds or so, Einstein turned around, admitting his mistake, and then said:
"The observation of that young man over there is perfectly correct. I therefore ask you to forget everything I have said to you today."
On that day, at that precise moment, destiny plucked that fearless young man of 22 years from obscurity and made him the leading theoretical physicist of the Soviet Union, arguably one of the greatest geniuses of all time to ever illuminate the rocky planet of Earth. That, that was Lev Davidovich Landau for you, ladies and gentlemen.
Similarly, on that day, Albert Einstein demonstrated the kind of unadulterated humility that genuine knowledge bestows on any vessel of flesh that houses it. True education humbles, not the other way around.
Be humble."
Source: “The ABC's of Science” by Giuseppe Mussardo, 2020, Springer.
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"No matter how good you are, there will be someone somewhere who will hate you with passion."-Anonymous author. (Slightly edited).
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"The quality of honey a bee produces depends on the quality of flowers that the bee consumes. You are like a bee. The quality of life you enjoy depends on the quality of books you consume. The more you learn, the more you have the capacity to earn. Capacity is essential because the process is not automatic. There must be knowledge application, which leads to wealth multiplication. Invest in books and apply what you learn, and money will be attracted to you like magnets are attracted to metals. If you want bees to come to your garden, you attract them with flowers. If you want money to go to your wallet, you attract it with applied knowledge. An illiterate who applies the little he knows is better than a PhD who does not put into practice the much he knows."-Reno Omokri's post on X-platform (2025).
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