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• In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  School, Egypt, President

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• In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.

  Dick Gregory

  Long, Mind, Bigs

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• Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

  Walker Percy

  Beats, Good Writers

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• There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

  Brian Blessed

  Volcanoes, America, People

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• My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

  Brian Blessed

  Team, Father, Men

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Pride, Guarantees That

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

  Noam Chomsky

  Opposites, Practice, Vicious

  "On the Future of Israel and Palestine". Interview with Frank Barat, chomsky.info. June 6, 2008.

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• In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Mets, Apartheid

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• South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

  Henry Rollins

  World, Hard, Sudan

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• Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Men, Faces

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• The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

  Henry Rollins

  Eras, Apartheid, South Africa

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• The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.257, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Track, Ponds

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that British patriotism was rediscovered in those spring days. It was never really lost. But it would be no bad thing if the feeling that swept the country then were to continue to inspire us. For if there was any doubt about the determination of the British people it was removed by the men and women who, a few months ago, brought a renewed sense of pride and self-respect to our country.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Determination, Spring

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Light, Smell

  Bill Maher (2005). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.185, Rodale

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• I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

  Bernie Mac

  Kids, Community, Directors

  "Bernie Mac Turns to Drama in Pride". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. March 19, 2007.

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• President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

  David Letterman

  Japan, Korea, President

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• In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.

  George Grosz

  Song, Dog, Morning

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• You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Might

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• Traveling is a great love of mine. I love South America and Africa. I'm your ultimate backpacker when I'm away. It's just me and my backpack. It's good for getting away from the industry.

  Matthew McConaughey

  America, Great Love, Get Away

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.

  Ron Atkinson

  Two, Left Handers, Tonight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was always interested in drawing. As a child, I started my own country, which was called Neubern. It was located in the South Atlantic. I did the documentation of Neubern in great detail. I drew everything that was there, all the houses and all the cars and all the people. We even had a navy and an air force. I spent a lot of time drawing.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Country, Children, Air

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• London and the south-east of England are very crowded spaces. Wherever a new runway is placed, thousands will be affected. Residents in nearby Longford, Harmondsworth and Sipson, which lie to the north of Heathrow, face having their homes compulsorily purchased for land to build the new runway.

  Tim Bowler

  Lying, Home, Land

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• A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

  Bryan Fuller

  White, Different Experiences, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized that these are not issues only pertinent to Latin America: poverty, misery, consumerism, etc.

  Alex Abreu

  Latin, America, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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