"Africans only perceive themselves as victims."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

James Shikwati

#Victim Quotes #Perceive Quotes

“Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happened.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.80, Pan Macmillan
“I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.”
“The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.”
“The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.”
“A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.”
“Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.”
“He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works”, p.78

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