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"We are proud of these achievements and of the support given to us by Japan as the world’s second largest market for diamonds."

"It is our view that Africa should not try to undermine the work of the ICC simply because one head of state called Bashir has been indicted by the Court."

"Differences of views become a problem when they erupt into outright hostilities and threaten to tear the group apart; when virtual parties form within a party. That is exactly what happened to the BDP."

"If we had not been the founding government and if our economy had been a basket case, the electorate would have sent us packing in the 1994 elections without much ado."

"Nobody has lost What has won is our ability as Batswana and Namibians to resolve differences peacefully."

"We fear not science. We deplore ignorance. If the men of science will be true to their reason, we will meet them on every field and teach them the harmonies of nature and of faith. We will show them how the human mind turns from the creature in all its variety and beauty to the creature's God."

"For us, independence is more valuable than comfort."

"Journalism loses its meaning if we compromise with fear."

"Ordinary people rely on us to be their voice, and that responsibility gives me the strength to move forward."

"Stories start from the ground — from people, not power. That is where truth lives."

"A digital bridge between Nepal and the world — where facts, culture, and people are represented truthfully."

"This is not just a website. It is Nepal’s own knowledge panel — built by Nepal, for Nepal, and shared with the world."

"Many Nigerians are traveling to the developed world to enjoy the development put in place by their governments, but we have refused to develop our own country. Let us start to develop ours to make it attractive and conducive for living, so that foreign nationals will want to come."

"You know, parents are, they look at this industry as something to play around with. They don't look at it as a money making thing."

"Right now we're looking at AI. You the realise that the only thing that can remain in the system of becoming something is actually being a filmmaker. That is one thing that we can do because AI is taking over jobs."

"When they need, you know, some people are not even looking for motivation. They just need to touch the right system, you know, like look at the people like if she can make it, I can make it."

"We want to offer Africans an opportunity to be able to pursue and make good living in the arts, and also teach the business side of the industry."

"We are creating a stage for an African child, so we say that nothing about us without us."

"I would vehemently discourage women to get into polygamous relationships"

"If you see a man and he's married and he wants to marry you too, I need to ask you something as a woman: if you want to marry a man who is married to someone else, what are you hoping to achieve?"

"What do you think you'd get out of that? You are going to spend the rest of your life in a mental tug-of-war with yourself, with the man and with the other woman."

"I really don't think modern men are suggesting polygamy for the right reasons"

"When I am at peace, I am content."

"It was not in my dreams to actually be an actress, it was just a job that was paying at the time and I thought acting at the time could not bring anything at home and then I'm still here now 25 years later and I'm like how did I get here."

"It gets emotional sometimes you feel like crying sometimes because of what your character is going through."

"The first thing women should do, even before marriage, is realise who they are."

"You cannot be someone's life and forget that you are an individual."

"Learn that you have the power to think for yourself"

"It's an African thing mums do, and it's not good. You don't die for putting yourself first."

"For the traditional costume we are thinking of going with either Himba or Kavango traditional wear"

"His legacy continues to inspire our athletes."

"Prayer is not a passive act, prayer is power, it restores, it unites, it heals and it transforms."

"The pageant is very African-centred. The reality out there is that as Africans, we define our beauty according to what the rest of the world tells us is beautiful and with this pageant, we want to rectify that"

"We want the girls to be as natural as possible"

"I am excited. I have already started preparing for the pageant, besides giving up some of my favourite foods, I am exercising and reading more, trying to get both my body and mind ready for the pageant"

"It is small. We are not writing enough and those who do write are not getting the necessary support. I would like to see more books written in indigenous languages. We have local linguists lecturing and researching at local universities and schools but majority are not writing books. In my head, that does not make sense. However, we are also not reading enough. The culture of reading still remains an issue. We have learners in high school who cannot read or follow basic grammar rules of writing. If they cannot read now, who will write later"

"I feel the need to give back as I had so many sponsors and prizes after becoming Miss Namibia and would like someone else to get pampered like I often do. I want them to have the same opportunities I had and most importantly, I want to share the importance of grooming as a confidence boost"

"The beauty pageant industry is an industry like any other, with the capacity to contribute to the nation building of any country. Namibia should be no different"

"My main aim is to try and portray what Namibia is to me, its diversity and heritage as well as the kindness of its people and its hospitality"

"Its a pleasure and honour to be associated with this bank, the money in the bank account will help me prepare for the Miss World pageant which will be held in Las Vegas, USA in December this year"

"I am incredibly nervous and excited at the same time. I have never travelled in my life. I have never been outside the country and now I am flying to Las Vegas"

"As a politician, I could be an asset to the cause of women and their rights, something that is very close to my heart"

"Most people enter because they want to become popular and gain a little fortune, but more often than not it is the girls who are truly humble and kind with good intentions at heart that make it. For some reason, the real you eventually shows on the surface"

"If you do decide to enter, start preparing for the pageant even before you have been chosen as a finalist. Work out, eat right and set your mind for victory by imagining yourself wearing the crown"

"Ensure that your pictures are classy and elegant with a touch of sexy and mystery. Also invest in a make-up artist on the day you decide to have your photo shoot, your face must capture the attention of the judges at first glance"

"I plan to be the best me. I believe that there’s nothing more unique and beautiful then being yourself 100% and representing one’s country to the best of you ability"

"As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin’s criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows."

"The fine-tuning of the universe, about which cosmologists make such a to-do, is both complex and specified and readily yields design. So too, Michael Behe's irreducibly complex biochemical systems readily yield design. The complexity-specification criterion demonstrates that design pervades cosmology and biology. Moreover, it is a transcendent design, not reducible to the physical world. Indeed, no intelligent agent who is strictly physical could have presided over the origin of the universe or the origin of life."

"Intelligent design is eminently falsifiable. Specified complexity in general and irreducible complexity in biology are within the theory of intelligent design the key markers of intelligent agency. If it could be shown that biological systems like the bacterial flagellum that are wonderfully complex, elegant, and integrated could have been formed by a gradual Darwinian process (which by definition is non-telic), then intelligent design would be falsified on the general grounds that one doesn't invoke intelligent causes when purely natural causes will do. In that case Occam's razor finishes off intelligent design quite nicely."

"The fact is that for complex systems like the bacterial flagellum no biologist has or is anywhere close to reconstructing its history in Darwinian terms. Is Darwinian theory therefore falsified? Hardly. I have yet to witness one committed Darwinist concede that any feature of nature might even in principle provide countervailing evidence to Darwinism. In place of such a concession one is instead always treated to an admission of ignorance. Thus it's not that Darwinism has been falsified or disconfirmed, but that we simply don't know enough about the biological system in question and its historical context to determine how the Darwinian mechanism might have produced it."