"You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible."

-- George Ayittey

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“The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.”

Source : William Barrett (2011). “Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy”, p.20, Anchor
“I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.”
“Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.”
“Theres always going to be a place for YouTube.”
“We''d like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs”
“Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s”
“Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.”
“What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!”

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