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Read quote“The Otira Gorge ... forms a tract of the most enchanting scenery in the Colony, not to be equalled by anything of a similar kind I have yet seen in any part of the world.”
Read quote“reaction to my experience as a black man in a social world created by white people primarily for their own ends”
Read quote“In the case of history what matters is its meaning; its medium is events, and its vehicle is literature.”
Read quote“The spirit of communion, community, that's the one that has to be strengthened.”
Read quote“I had little time to stop, make deep friendships. I could indulge a leaning toward speculation and fantasy.”
Read quote““But when I got good, they couldn’t admit it.””
Read quote“I do not think him at the head of his profession.”
Read quote“Alam semesta dari perspektif manusia adalah cerita. Hidup kita adalah cerita.”
Read quote“La precisión me interesa hasta la obsesión.”
Read quote“Elimu ya ‘kibongo’ bila kuwa na mpango mbadala wa masomo ya ziada, ni vigumu kufaulu.”
Read quote“No matter what others are doing, we go with die casting!”
Read quote“Unity, visible and invisible, is not an accident of the Gospel. It is the Gospel.”
Read quote“So what I can control is the work that I make.”
Read quote“Love your work. Love your family. Love your country.”
Read quote“I have all this from geographical books and maps, each composed and printed by the Chinese themselves for each of the provinces.”
Read quote“With a radical spirit, people will change and invent.”
Read quote“It is one big mistake and a mistake of a special kind. It is, namely, a category-mistake.”
Read quote“The apprenticeship system is plausible, when superficially observed; but it is found to be little less than infernal when thoroughly known.”
Read quote“The key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S.”