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"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."
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"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?"
"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
"I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook."
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"The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought."
"I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books."
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"Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done."
"Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?"
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