"We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance."

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Laurens van der Post

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“The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.”
“We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.”

Source : William Joyce's speech at Brighton (March 1934) as quoted in Frederic Mullally "Fascism inside England" (p. 15), 1946.
“I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why canâ€™t people be happier together?”

Source : Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“We're all born listeners. And as a result of our modern lives, and living in a world that has less meaning than the natural world that we evolved to hear, we learn to think of listening not as taking in all the information with equal value, which is the definition of true listening. In our modern world, we tend to think of listening as focusing our attention on what is important and filtering out everything else.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Henry York, aka Whimpering Child, aka WC (hair sample included), is hereby identified as Enemy, Hazard, and Human Mishap to all faeren in all districts, in all ways, and in all worlds.”
“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.”
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
“No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Do not talk about Jesus Christ as long as you love this world.”

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