"I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs."

-- Miriam

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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

Source : "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.
“I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop--and probably for a while after that--none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless.”

Source : Chris Abani (2015). “Song For Night”, p.5, Saqi
“Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.”
“We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.”
“We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.”
“When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.”
“Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds”

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