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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.


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BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv...
BEN ELTON It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,...
BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND