Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. I never had any formal education-not even a nursery school certificate. But sometimes I know more than Ph. D. s because as a military man I know how to act. I am a man of action. (Idi Amin)

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. I never had any formal education-not even a nursery school certificate. But sometimes I know more than Ph. D. s because as a military man I know how to act. I am a man of action.

Idi Amin

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