"Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent."

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Source : "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

George Ayittey

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“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”

Source : 1950 The Liberal Imagination.
“With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.”

Source : "Dead Can Dance". Interview with Ned Raggett, pitchfork.com. August 7, 2012.
“I'm inspired to inspire others.”
“I don't do my show for critics. Early on I did, because I'm a nice guy and I like to be liked by everybody, and I thought, "Hey, I'm just making people laugh, what's the big deal?" There have been all different types of comics that appeal to all different types of people. Why rail on me? But yeah, they really don't like Southern acts.”
“If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.”
“I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.”
“Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis”
“Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”

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