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“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.”
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“If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.”
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“Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.”
Source : Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
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“I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.”
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“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!”
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“It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.”
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“The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.”
Source : "Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo: Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair". Interview With Peter Guest, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.
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“A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.”
Source : Alyson Richman (2014). “The Garden of Letters”, p.159, Penguin