"After Mengistu consolidated his power in 1978, his personality gradually began to change. His ability to listen and his patience faded away. We could now see these qualities were pretences only; he had been putting on his best behavior in his bid for support."

-- Mengistu Haile Mariam

#Support Quotes #Personality Quotes #Quality Quotes

“What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.”
“It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.”
“Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.”
“Whatever your talent is, donâ€™t be embarrassed by it. For the love of God, embrace it, share it, do what you want with it. Itâ€™s amazing, so never hide behind it.”
“...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”
“Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?”
“It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.”

Source : Robert Hugh Benson (2012). “The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary”, p.35, tredition
“Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

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