"I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future."

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Source : Post-election statement in 1964. "Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings". Book by Virginia Morell. Chapter 19, 1995.

Jomo Kenyatta

#Past Quotes #Looks Quotes #Forget Quotes

“I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?”

Source : "Thomas Mann and Zoey Deutch Talk BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Auditioning without Seeing the Script, Working with Emma Thopmson, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 12, 2013.
“Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.”

Source : Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.
“I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.”
“If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny”
“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
“The best deal that Barack Obama can get will not be the best deal to be had because he's weak and indecisive.”
“A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.”
“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”

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