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“Eyes are brave. They speak the truth when the lips lie.”
“When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.”
“As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: Dont waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a soc...”
“Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown...”
“When we regularly struggle to achieve the goals, either we get used to the struggle or we find a way to avoid the struggle. If we get used to the struggle than every new task will increase the dist...”
“Who is the wrong person to criticise?You”
“Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.”
“As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by ...”
“Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire co...”
“Pilgrims from all over the world were making their way to the place deemed the pearl of the Middle East. The city was reminiscent of a modern-day Persepolis. Its buildings, like towering pillars, t...”
“There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.”
“To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with t...”
“Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.”
“A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.”
“Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome.”
“They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?”
“Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.”
“In todays world the ones you trust are the ones who betray you who are your true friends ?”
“Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.”
“We need someone to thank and someone to blame; thus the concept of God and the Devil. We can't accept that everything that happens to us, is our own doing.”
