"When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school."

-- Annie Lennox

#Children Quotes #Dirty Quotes #School Quotes

“Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all costs if necessary, as long as ordered, but everyone's glad to hand over to someone else. And anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a madman.”
“A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing ...”
“Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.”
“I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.”
“I'd say I learned a lot. It's all about whether or not I can apply it.”
“Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. Its temperament is desperate. It is a tormented response to the past, to all that has happened, the recalled and unrecalled injusticesâ€”for the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists.”

Source : "The Consequences of Dreams" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2014.
“Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps oneâ€™s hands free of another manâ€™s throat, free of oneâ€™s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless. I forget who said it and I no longer care.”
“Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

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