"The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died."

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Source : "Key quotes: Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest and Press Association, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

Alastair Campbell

#Eye Quotes #Obstacles Quotes #Daredevil Quotes

“Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.”

Source : "Focus on the good news in the Palestinian-Israeli standoff" by Julia Bacha, www.cnn.com. September 18, 2011.
“Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.”
“Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.”
“I had Alex Riley out there as well and he's jumping up and down excited. You know, hugging me and the fans are going nuts and booing me.”
“Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free all sentient beings from suffering. This is karuna, compassion, which in turn gives rise to the responsibility to create happiness and its causes for all.”
“I'm upset at myself. I should have had 50. I missed 13 free throws. That's unacceptable. If I want to be accepted by Wilt and Kareem and Russell I've got to start playing better than that. Right now I'm still in the class of Hakeem and David Robinson and that's not good enough for me. I want to be out there with the immortals.”
“Much of command is the ability to take command.”
“Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.”

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