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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and aut... AMA ATA AIDOO
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and aut... AMA ATA AIDOO To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: H...
GEORGES ST-PIERRE The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. T...
AHMED CHALABI When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the d...
YAYA TOURE
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C.
I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of pay phones was to serve people in motion. Wireless phones now serve that same purpose...
JIM SMITH must take more effective measures and make unremitting efforts to fight corruption and build a clean...
ZHU RONGJI Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attai...
LANA M. H. WILDER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER
A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
ATA AIDOO They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
ATA AIDOO I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many ot...
ATA AIDOO
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is... JORGE LUIS BORGES We all fight for one reason, to win. We share the same purpose and that's why we are brothers.
DAVEY
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity...
PAU (PABLO) CASALS Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR Africans are not the only ones poorly housed in Europe. Why is it only the houses of the Africans th...
HOULEYMACOU DIALLO
The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government. ENRIQUE PENA NIETO
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it. A. K. ANTONY Men were born to protect and love, and our women help us to serve a higher purpose.
MISSY LYONS We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and ...
JOSEFINA VAZQUEZ MOTA Enron is truly an authentic emblem of corporate corruption and will serve as an example for quite so...
DEREK HONG So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if...
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YTHAM REIJAN ROSELITTLE COOGEIL
Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!
Africa, your people cries for you!
Afr...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why shoul... JULIAN BARNES
Mother Superior jump the gun...-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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JAMES C. DOBSON
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Government leaders have to address corruption so that aid is freed up for its intended purpose.
DAVID NUSSBAUM If there is corruption in the system, we're going to find them. We're going to expose them and we wi...
JAMES MCDONOUGH
Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises? LEON URIS If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on th...
OMAR BONGO
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbe... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE When it comes to purpose and preparation, most of us want to skip the preparation part and get right...
ANDRENA SAWYER
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. LARRY WALL
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. T.S. ELIOT
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us.... DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER The first institutional prop to fight corruption is the rule of law.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We've got the South African teams now, in a row, and we just can't give the South Africans that much...
COLIN COOPER We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African...
FATOU BENSOUDA
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpo... ERNST MACH
Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... No. It's not coming this way. Our goal is to expose our African artists to the rest of Africa and th...
ALEX OKOSI
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will re... NELSON MANDELA It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine...
YULIA TYMOSHENKO
About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I... SUE GRAFTON
The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others. ALBERT SCHWEITZER No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the to...
NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA [I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calli...
JOHN MCWHORTER
College will probably destroy your love for poetry. Hours of boring analysis, dissection, and critic... N.H. KLEINBAUM
People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 19... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER you can't fight crime if you don't fight corruption and impunity.
FRANCISCO FLORES Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
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AMBER MAGNER
Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... CRAIG GROESCHEL
Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast edu... ANNE SULLIVAN
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ALBERT SCHWEITZER
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. ALBERT SCHWEITZER Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI The purpose (of the meetings) is to re-establish an environment dedicated to caring for the people y...
GREG ABBOTT
From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyer... NELSON MANDELA
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxicall... VACLAV HAVEL
We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on ... JENNIFER GRANHOLM
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is v... BEN OKRI There is a fundamental difference between life and living, all of us have life, but we must purpose ...
NEIL SUTTON
The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As far as (South African) President Mandela is concerned, it is immaterial whether the bombing is re...
PARKS MANKAHLANA A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA All we're asking for is information. And if everything is aboveboard, why is there a need to fight?
DEBORAH SEAGLE
I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom... BEN CARSON
You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
DICK WERTHIMER Because the purpose of these mandates is not to expose the myth of racial profiling, but is instead ...
HEATHER MACDONALD
