"A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't."

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Source : "The Individual and Political Life of Information Systems". "Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science, Warrenton, Virginia, September 7-10, 1965". Book edited by Lawrence B. Heilprin, Barbara E. Markuson, Frederick L. Goodman, 1965.

Saul Gorn

#Men Quotes #Years Quotes #Skins Quotes

“There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.”

Source : "A life in writing". Interview with Christopher Tayler, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2009.
“Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion”
“Success is always less funny than failure.”

Source : "In praise of the north" by Andrew Martin, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2008.
“Success is the difference between where you are and where you could be”
“Atheism is the only world-view or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS.”
“No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”
“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
“It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.”

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