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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity. ↗

— Namie Amuro

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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity. ↗

— Bryan Adams

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Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ↗

— Joey Adams

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Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. ↗

— Mike Wallace

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