"What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt."

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Source : "African Debt". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. June 12, 2005.

George Ayittey

#Needs Quotes #Debt Quotes #Grows Quotes

“An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.”
“I've always loved performing. It was always very exciting for me. I don't get too nervous when I'm playing, but on every stage, it's a little different. I'm always excited, but sometimes, the level of anxiety to perform is greater.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 26, 2012.
“Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.”

Source : The Death of Humane Medicine (1994)
“Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 273), 1979.
“A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.”
“Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.”
“Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.”
“Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps â€” good works.”

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