"I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda."

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Source : "Kibaki 'Open to Opposition Talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. January 03, 2008.

Mwai Kibaki

#Leader Quotes #Political Quotes #Violence Quotes

“Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.”
“There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!”
“How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, 'My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.'”
“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.”

Source : Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.155
“I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.”
“Karamakate says, "to become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams. In that journey, he has to discover, in solitude and silence, who he really is."”

Source : "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.
“Since weâ€™re playing that gameâ€¦ I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze. â€œDo you have to sneeze?â€ he asked. â€œBe quiet. Iâ€™m pretending to enjoy your company, just as you said.â€ â€œTry not to strain anything.â€ â€œOh, I wonâ€™t. Iâ€™m very good at faking it.â€ That shut him up.”
“It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.”

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