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“Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.”

LifeHumorAgeJobsWorkEconomyLivingEuropeMathematicsAgingWorkersOld AgeJobRetiringWorking ClassOld PeopleGetting OlderRetiredGrowing OldAgeingEuropean UnionInevitabilityStaggeringAging GracefullyWorksBrexitWorkerIrony Of LifeMiddle AgeContinentEuropeansNuria AnoOld AgedEuropean Economic AreaStaggering Society
Author:Núria Añó
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“You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.”

WarCountryPoliticalPoliticsNationsLeadershipMoneyLeaderViolenceSelf ImprovementFood For ThoughtIsraelmore AyivorCorruptionPersonal DevelopmentPocketsLeadersThievesNationDestroyPolitical LeadersConflictsThiefBriberyStealContinentAfrican LeadersBad LeadersBribery CorruptionAnti CorruptionAnas Ayemeyaw AnasDestroy A NationPolitical PerversionPolitical PocketsSay Not To Corruption
Book:Leaders' Ladder
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“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an unspace to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river or a road or a tangle of railway tracks or a quarry, or to attach an island to another island or to the continent from which it strains. The dream of a bridge is of a woman standing at one side of a gorge and stepping out as if her job is to die, but when her foot falls it meets the ground right on the other side. A bridge is just better than no bridge but its horizon is gaplessness, and the fact of itself should still shame it. But someone had built on this bridge, drawn attention to its matter and failure. An arrogance that thrilled me.”

DreamFailureBridgesArroganceRiverRoadBridgeIslandShapeQuarryContinentBridgingA Bridge DreamingBridge DreamsGaplessnessHouses On BridgesRailway TracksUnspace
Book:This Census-Taker
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“To be able to influence Tanzanian literature and African literature, and sell our books in Tanzania as well as in our continent, we need to be committed to what we do. And what we do is writing. Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people, about things that matter. To make a living from writing, and make people read again in Tanzania and Africa; we must write very well, very good stories.”

PeopleWritingInfluenceBooksInternetResearchLibraryCommittedAfricaReadWriteThings That MatterSellTanzaniaAfrican LiteratureContinentWhat We DoTanzanian LiteratureTalk To PeopleVery Good StoriesWrite Very Well
Author:Enock Maregesi
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