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“A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.”
Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
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“When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.”
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“It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.”
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“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.”
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“I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I'd just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.”
Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.
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“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.”
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“The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.”
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“In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!”