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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

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

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#attacked #attacking #debates #each #effective

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence