George Ayittey Quotes
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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I want to wear things that make me feel good.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
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I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.
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African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
