"Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us."

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Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

Ahmed Ben Bella

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“The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.232, Penguin
“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”
“At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.”

Source : "New Doctor Who Matt Smith was destined for the part because of his dress sense he tells Esquire" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. March 1, 2010.
“Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.”
“Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.”
“I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.”
“Wherever I go, I run into myself.”
“I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.”

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