"Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be."

-- Chinua Achebe

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“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.”
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”

Source : "Home".
“I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.”
“John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.”
“Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.”
“The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.”
“Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.”

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