"There was nothing there but black water and American fire power."

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

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"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

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"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

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"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

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"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

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"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

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"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

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"In order to do something you must be something."

Identity

"I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double."

Time

"We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film."

People

"So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out."

Time

"This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character."

Friendship

"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."

Law

"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."

Independence

"I think character is permanent, and issues are transient."

Character

"I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do."

Man

"Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive."

Time