"The father of democracy is Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister after our independence, who was assassinated under conditions that to this day nobody can clearly understand. So, for me, this title is not the most important thing. You can go down in history as the father of democracy, but you can also go down as the person who brought about chaos just by stepping down."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Joseph Kabila

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“But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.”
“Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.”
“You can ruin anything if you focus at it.”
“Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.”

Source : David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.243, Simon and Schuster
“We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.”
“One of the things I tell young people - and older people too - is that when things don't happen that you want, don't drown in discouragement. We say, "Oh, this didn't happen, so nothing good will happen." Don't barricade yourself.”
“I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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