"Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance."

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Source : Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.60, Routledge

Richard von Weizsaecker

#Lying Quotes #Remembrance Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.”
“The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.”

Source : Gerd Sommerhoff (1974). “Logic of the living brain”, John Wiley & Sons
“What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.”
“One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.”
“A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.”
“I'm taking one for the team, Like Martin Luther King, taking one for a dream”

Source : Song: Dirty Mef, Album: 4:21... The Day After, 2006
“The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.”
“Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds.”

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