"The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free."

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Source : Joshua Nkomo, SAPES Trust (2001). “Nkomo: the story of my life”

Joshua Nkomo

#Winning Quotes #People Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“I think Malcolm Forbes got kicked out of our school and [Ethiopian Emperor] Hallie Selassie's grandkids went there, too. Because of security reasons you have to go to those schools. We had a privileged life, fine, but also very secure. So I think it's great where the [Barack] Obama daughters are going to school.”
“Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.”
“Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.”
“When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.”
“A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.340, Macmillan

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