B. Traven Quotes

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

B. Traven

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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

Obiageli Ezekwesili
- Good
- Opportunity
- Respect
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

Otto Schily
- World
- Feel
- Hatred
I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

Cameron van der Burgh
- Control
- Focus
- Best
I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

Ed Speleers
- Time
- Long
- Family
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Great
- Artist
- Poetry
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

Questlove
- Up
- Losing
- Circle