"I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else."

-- John Dramani Mahama

#Believe Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Politician Quotes

“Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.”
“China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.”
“Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.”

Source : Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.98, Taylor & Francis
“The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.”
“Iâ€™m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.”
“The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.”
“Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”

Source : Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.233, Macmillan
“I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.”

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