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"I think it was a good opportunity for me to help, do my best for the team, and this was the main goal."

"I had a lot of praise, and I am happy with that."

"The team is very grateful to have such a guy. He is very good to everyone and the way he carries himself, I think is very nice that we learn a lot from him."

"I do the same thing I always have, and I train the same way. So in that way, nothing has changed. I just do my best, and now I have the chance."

"The coaches tell me what to do, and then I try to do it. I'm not afraid to take a chance with a pass, because that's part of our style of play, and if we lose the ball, you can always try to win it back."

"I've never scored many goals, so of course I was happy, but it wasn't that big of a deal for me. The most important thing was that we won the game."

"When his career was ended in 1864 he had the mortification of witnessing the ruin of a teaching to which he had devoted forty years of his life."

"Maintaining international peace and security is a collective responsibility."

"The people of West Africa and the Sahel do not ask for pity; they ask for partnership."

"The threat of terrorism and violent extremism continues to outpace our collective response."

"When I took over, women were definitely at the edge. They did not have the necessary space. They did not have the necessary support. What I have done, apart from bringing a lot of women into governance, is to make sure that they feel a part of our development process, they feel a part of being Sierra Leonean. Rape was rampant. I declared a national emergency, and we have amended the Sexual Offenses Act. And now, the punitive measures are stricter. We've set up special courts for that. We have a special, one stop sentence to deal with rape and other issues."

"Talking about good governance definitely reminds me about transparency, accountability and making sure that we free up the political space so that all the political parties can freely partake in elections and the elections are credible. We have done quite a lot in that direction in the past three years. Today, we have removed the death penalty. It has been hanging in the law books and it's been used by several governments to take away the opposition, to threaten them, to silence them. For me, I have decided that that is a thing of the past. And I took that to the parliament of Sierra Leone, and it's off the law books today. The seditious libel law — this is a law that has been used to threaten journalists and a lot of them have been locked up. As I speak to you, that is also the thing of the past. If you check in our prisons today, there is no journalist in prison for practicing journalism."

"Que vaut biautez, que vaut richece, Que vaut honeurs? que vaut hautece, Puis que morz tot a sa devise Fait sor nos pluie et secherece, Puis qu'ele a tot en sa destrece, Quanqu'en despist et quanqu'en prise?"

"Established’ is a good word, much used in garden books,"

"‘The plant, when established’ . . Oh, become established quickly, *quickly, garden For I am fugitive, I am very fugitive – – –"

"Those that come after me will gather these roses, And watch, as I do *now, the white wistaria Burst, in the sunshine, from its pale green sheath."

"Planned. Planted. Established. Then neglected, Till at last the loiterer by the gate will wonder At the old, old cottage, the old wooden cottage,And say ‘One might build here, the view is glorious;This must have been a pretty garden once.’"

"For me, it's meant so much for me because this is my first trophy. We jubilated after the Lugano game. Almost all the players came to the dressing room. We celebrated with the fans. During that week we had like two celebrations."

"If it rains, the game will be faster, but I don’t think we should focus on that. We simply need to concentrate on the match, because we know it’s a very important game for us."

"What contradictions do we not daily observe, between the private judgments of individuals on the most ordinary questions, that occur to be examined by them? How difficult is it often for twelve men to come to an uniform judgment, on the same subject? Must there not be error, amidst these contradictory individual judgments and opinions? What reasonable man, then, would ever admit, that the private judgment of every individual is a basis and rule of certitude, in determining what are the doctrines, precepts, and institutions of Christ; or what are the dispositions and conditions of salvation, which were prescribed by him, and on the knowledge, and observance of which the eternal happiness of every individual depends?"

"We have to be clear about one thing. Cote d’Ivoire, like many African countries, is not yet a democratic state. We are a democratizing state. We experienced thirty years of single-party regime from 1960 to 1990. We experienced ten years of fairly chaotic democratization, which culminated in ten months of military regime. These are the negative factors. On the positive side, we truly have a population that is thirsting for liberty, democratization and transparency. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the cabinet that I have assembled to carry on the democratization work and to complete the process. That’s our primary mission."

"I have been observing this fracture since when I was 15 years old, that is since our independence in 1960. At first, theAgnis [an ethnic group in the eastern part of the country] felt that they were excluded and marginalized. The Sanwis, a sub-group among the Agnis, wanted to secede at that time. Later, the Bétés [an ethnic group in the midwest] felt that they were excluded and marginalized (I am a Bété myself). Today, the people in the north feel that they are excluded and marginalized (they felt so before my election and still do today)."

"Even in the period of reconciliation, the Ivorian state is not in a negotiation with anyone. The state is asking the children of the nation to sit around the negotiation table and say, individually, what they feel is wrong in Cote d’Ivoire. The state, and only the state, will look for remedies to the problems that will be diagnosed."

"I'm not a kamikaze,"

"I won the election and I'm not negotiating my departure. I find it absolutely incredible that the entire world is playing this ... game of poker."

"I love life. My voice is not the voice of a martyr, no, no, no, I'm not looking for death. It's not my aim to die."

"Storytelling is an art deep within human nature. Good narratives not only tell us about ourselves; they tell us about the beliefs of others. Stories are the essential way by which we expand our empathy and our imaginations; stories are the means by which we communicate across time and across cultures."

"The historians’ craft is to tease out the larger narratives from … competing versions, missing parts, and conflicting ‘truths’."

"Biographies are essentially personal histories… [yet] they may tell us more than the story of one life: they may reveal the struggle for the survival of an entire community."

"Oral history is transmitted by narrative, by song, by proverb and by genealogy. We who write down our histories in books transmit our chosen perceptions to readers rather than to listeners, but both forms are structured,interpretative and combative."

"How can one sleep with a sense of security when one has to deal with a man who desires to change the map of Europe from day to day, and who, when in a bad humour threatens one with revolution?"

"I want to take you to the river that runs behind my house"

"There is such a narrow window"

"Often I look at the world"

"It’s like falling in love for the first time for the last time"

"The past is a bad invention that keeps on happening:"

"Keats is dead so fuck me from behind"

"Europe would benefit greatly from turning more to Africa. The world is evolving such that the upcoming big powers will be the US, China, India, and possibly Brazil. Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future. I’m not interested in being sentimental about Africa. I’m an economist and I am here because Germany has a role to play economically and financially. The discussions I had in Berlin show that we have a lot in common."

"When I look around at these major projects which are being set up in Senegal right now, they are all being run by young graduates who have come back after having studied at international institutes in the US and France. For some of them this is their first job. They want to come back and my problem is finding good enough jobs for all of them. The young people who are migrating in boats to the Canary Islands are not graduates. Our objective is to give them a chance to earn money quickly. I met up with some of them who had been brought back from Spain. I asked them what it was all about. They said, 'Mr. President, we have no work here. We have to do something. If you give us jobs we will stay. The other thing is that there are prejudices against the traditional peasant life which our grandfathers lived.' But modern farms are different. I know graduates in Senegal, who have banana farms, and have come back with new ideas and use modern materials."

"There is widespread communication of dishonour – dishonour to fathers, dishonour to contemporaries"

"We have solar power, and we are doing everything in our power to support it. Right now we have 1,400 solar powered television sets. But it is expensive. What I said to the German investors is that they need to reach out to villages all over the country. We have 24,000 villages in Senegal, and they could all use solar power. My aim is to use solar power for heating, for schools, for public buildings. This I will do because it is in our interests. We don’t have oil, which is why I helped created set up an organization of non-oil producing countries, with the aim of developing alternative energy sources and solar power. That’s why I invited those German companies to Senegal. I told them, we are ready to work with you."

"No matter how long the river may be, it has its end. We're waiting for justice, a fair trial, and safety, which we were deprived of in South Africa due to law enforcement corruption and... several assassination attempts we survived"

"I just want to say, it’s so heartbreaking. As a man of God, I have forgiven them and their actions"

"I hope if they are humans that they will apologise over such behaviour."

"One mission, one desire. One obsession. Freedom."

"Those who don't follow our religion must be killed."

"My father is a traitor. A slave to the Indians. I hate my father."

"Do you know what happened to the last person who tried to kill me? I crushed her fucking head."

"[At other auditioning actresses] Y'all might as well go home, 'cuz I just fuckin' nailed that!"

"You didn't fail me, daddy. You gave me just what I needed. Divine intervention!"