Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

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Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

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Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

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The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

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I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference. - Joyce Banda

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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

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No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. ― Thomas Sowell

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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

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