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“Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.”
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“Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?”
Source : Tribune, 1954.
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“In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.”
Source : "On Originality". Blog Post, jamesgeary.com. June 22, 2007.
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“She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.”
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“When values are clear, decisions are easy.”
Source : John Spence (2014). “Letters to a CEO”, p.110, Diversion Books
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“I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”
Source : Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books
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“They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.”
Source : Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.
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“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”