Mobutu Sese Seko famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
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The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.
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I have rendered my country and people an enormous service. They owe me everything.
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If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.
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I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.
-- Mobutu Sese Seko
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Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
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The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.
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You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.
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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.
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