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- How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which…
- Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible…
- I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
- Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.
- Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week,…
- I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different…
- The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,…
- Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was…
- Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.
- Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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