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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#africa #assure #cannot #certainly #development

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aiming #been #commodity #democracy #focus

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#contrary #diplomacy #end #far #globalization

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#faced #ideological #instead #nature #objectives

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#introduction #led #often #pluralism #political

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#beats #everything #place #second #second place

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous. ↗

— John Bonham

#brick #brick wall #come #disastrous #fill

If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about. ↗

— John Bonham

#care #meant #money #nothing #rich

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#life

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest. ↗

— John Bonham

#drum #effects #everybody #i #interest