"Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the Kalashnikov was the predominant arm."

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Source : Source: www.esquire.com

C. J. Chivers

#Conflict Quotes

“The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.”
“It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.”
“I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.”
“The flower draws its life energy from the soil and from the sun. We are very similar. We continuously receive energy from the earth through our feet and from the air. Energy is everywhere, like love. We just have to open ourselves up to receive it.”
“The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”

Source : "The Relation of the State to the Public Library" by Melvil Dewey, 1889.
“No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.”
“The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.”
“Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.”

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