"In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked,……" — Giles Foden
"In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either."
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15 Quotes by Giles Foden
Giles Foden has 15 quotes on this site.
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My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit…
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From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as…
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My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
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To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been…
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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph…
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I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell…
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Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just…
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The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
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Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
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I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio…
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Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
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Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
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More Control Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— Lord Acton
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
— Lord Acton
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.…
— Michael Badnarik
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
— Red Adair
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
— Abu Bakr
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