"But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps."

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Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media

Beryl Markham

#Integrity Quotes #War Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?" ~pg 11”
“Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.”
“There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has a greater need to be that way. It's a response to a world that's always using a can opener to open them up to see what's inside, wondering whether it ought to be replaced with a more useful sort of preserves.”
“Love your life, live for the day”
“Without love we are not truly living.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Sep 02, 2012
“The world is evil only when you become its slave.”
“Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic feelings by participating in the situations of others and acquiring an understanding of them. He thinks we also have a duty to make ourselves into the kind of person for whom the recognition that something is our duty would be a sufficient incentive to do it (if no other incentives were available to us). That's what he means by "the duty to act from the motive of duty".”
“His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.”

Source : David Morrell (2011). “First Blood”, p.13, David Morrell

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