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“Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.”
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“It is dangerous to live in a secure world.”
Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.200, Faber & Faber
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“The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.”
Source : Quoted in Observer (London), 14 Oct. 1979
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“The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.”
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“For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.”
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“The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.”
Source : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria
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“It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.”
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“Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.”
Source : Whittaker Chambers (1989). “Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959”, Gateway Books