"Between Twitter and Facebook I have nearly 70,000 followers, so my colleagues receive the responses. They show some of them to me, and I am always interested to read what people have to say. I filter all the information that reaches me, from letters in the newspaper, to conversations. There are many influences that shape my decisions, and often people on Twitter are thinking along the same lines as I do on an issue."

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Source : Source: memeburn.com

Helen Zille

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.”
“Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.”
“I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.”
“Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.”
“Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.154, Clarendon Press
“You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.”

Source : "Science or Fiction?" by Natasha Bita, www.theaustralian.com.au. November 20, 2009.
“If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life,”

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