"I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation."

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Source : I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.4, PublicAffairs

I. F. Stone

#Reality Quotes #Political Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.”
“The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put Godâ€™s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire worldâ€¦.The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.”
“Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.”
“Showing up is 80 percent of life.”
“In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?”
“Your life isn't about the big break, it's about one significant life transforming step at a time.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tim Storey from Jul 15, 2016
“I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.”
“I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. Weve got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.”

Source : "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 22, 2010.

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