"He who feeds you, controls you"

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Source : "Burkina Faso's revolutionary hero Thomas Sankara to be exhumed" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2015.

Thomas Sankara

“Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.”
“Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.”
“In my judgment, the only way to deal with terrorists is to stay on the offensive, is to find them and bring them to justice before they hurt us again.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca
“There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.”
“Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.”
“I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.”

Source : "Alexander Payne: Life after Sideways" by Simon Hattestone, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2012.
“More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.”
“The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.”

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