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“Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.”
Source : ""Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe". Book by Martin Meredith, 2002.
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“Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.”
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“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
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“Later she sat on the ground in the forest between school and home, and spring was so bright and beautiful, the warm air touched her so tenderly, she could almost feel herself changing into a flower. Her light dress felt like petals. "I love everything," she heard herself say. "So do I," a voice answered. Pearl straightened up and looked around. No one was there.”
Source : William Steig (2013). “The Amazing Bone”, p.10, Macmillan
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“Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.”
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“Ted said, "You're working for the Order now." "Yes." "How does it feel?" "Well, Doctor, it feels rather sore and tingly.”
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“Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.”
Source : Arthur Symons, Karl E. Beckson (1989). “Arthur Symons, selected letters, 1880-1935”, Univ of Iowa Pr
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“Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.”
