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Marie Colvin

"... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen."

Source : "A war reporter in Homs is worth any amount of outrage on Facebook" by Peter Preston, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

Marie Colvin

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“In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own”
“I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.”

Source : Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”
“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.”

Source : "Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature". Book by Francis Crick, 1981.
“Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.”
“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
“Paul points out that some say, 'I'm of Paul,' while others say, 'I'm of Apollos.' He asked, 'Isn't that carnal?' But what's the difference between saying that or saying, 'I'm a Baptist,' 'I'm a Presbyterian,' 'I'm a Methodist,' 'I'm a Catholic'? I have found that the more spiritual a person becomes, the less denominational he is. We should realize that we're all part of the Body of Christ and that there aren't any real divisions in the Body. We're all one.”
“An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.”
“We get through life and this is part of the education process also. In real life, we meet bad bosses and good bosses and good friends and bad friends. I think we should let the teachers do their work and not impose too much stuff on them.”

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