"I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood is still embedded in me."

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Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.17, Macmillan

Ishmael Beah

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“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.”
“I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.”
“I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you live like itâ€™s the past and you behave like itâ€™s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.”
“By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.”

Source : "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.
“We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.”
“Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.”
“I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.”

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