"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."

-- Thor Heyerdahl

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“Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.”

Source : "Economics Cannot be Separated from Politics". Quoting "Declaration of Havana". Speech at Punta del Este, www.marxists.org. August 08, 1961.
“US special forces are closing in on Saddam Hussain but they're afraid to go in. He's hiding out in Tony Martin's farmhouse.”
“If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.”
“I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world.Â They know phony and they know real.'”
“I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.”
“Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.”
“It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.”
“The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.”

Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Terracotta Dog”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

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