"I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids to school; they want to live in peace; they want to have their basic rights of life just like everyone else. I think we all owe an obligation to support people who want to do that."

-- Ishmael Beah

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“Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.”
“The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.187
“Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.”
“I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens.”
“In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.”
“In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.”
“Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that arenâ€™t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.”

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