"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."

-- Alma Guillermoprieto

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“The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.”
“When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.”
“Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.”

Source : "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks". Jimma Times, July 30, 2010.
“What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.”
“Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.”

Source : "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.
“Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.”

Source : Interview with Jason Zengerle, nymag.com. April 15, 2012.
“The key word in profiteering is profit.”
“Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.”

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