"All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves."

-- James Russell Lowell

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“All the animals come out at night.”
“Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.”
“Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.”

Source : "The Fate of Africa" by Martin Meredith, (p. 266), 1964.
“I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.”
“Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.”
“Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.”
“I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.”

Source : "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.
“Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.”

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