"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."

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Source : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

Alan Paton

#Life Quotes #Wise Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.”
“Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son JÃ¡nos from any further attempt.”
“I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.”
“Your margin is my opportunity.”
“I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?”
“If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?”
“Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.”

Source : Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso
“You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who did Paris came from, where they transited, where they went. None of them even set foot in Iran. So why are you punishing people who are visiting Iran for that? . . . We're not going to radicalize them. We never have. Your allies have radicalized people who visited.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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