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War correspondents . . . see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.


Margaret Bourke-White

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SIMI GREWAL It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
OSCAR WILDE It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually ho...
DAVID BURR GERRARD My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
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WOODY HARRELSON Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometim...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others.
RAHEEL FAROOQ It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world i...
RUDOLF STEINER PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA A great man is someone who has made the effort to give great deal of value to the lives of others.
NICK KINSELLA It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER We begin to learn wisely when we're willing
to see world from other people's perspective.
TOBA BETA the Balkans are a tinder box ... World War I started there ... there's a great deal at stake -- the ...
IKE SKELTON We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.
ZACK WAMP He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER He has had a huge impact on our team. It is great to be able to train with him and see how he influe...
DAN BEARDSLEE Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasa...
MERIWETHER LEWIS You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD When it came to demography, the German debate oriented itself very much on the past. And our Nazi pa...
REINER KLINGHOLZ How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Moody played great and White Pass was able to play at their speed most of the night.
MANDIE OLSON Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our d...
PHIL GINGREY This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color....
MAXINE WATERS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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ALEXANDER PAYNE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS Death, the cliché assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more ...
ALDEN WHITMAN I opened myself to your silences.
MARGARET ATWOOD Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, become...
CHARLES LINDBERGH It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do...
EKNATH EASWARAN This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color....
MAXINE WATERS When I was going through a tough phase in a training camp, I totally hated it. When it came to the l...
ZENG HAN JUN See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.
JAY LENO Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulu...
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE Only by his action can a man make (himself/his life) whole . . . . You are responsible for what you ...
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE It is our hope that foreign correspondents in China make more coverage on that instead of making irr...
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I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage:...
ALEX PAREENE While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA When our life in him is healthy and vibrant, we do not only ache to keep sinking our roots down deep...
DAVID MATHIS The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Eu...
JAN PETER BALKENENDE The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK It's great to see kids come into this rivalry match and get after it. To win a match in the conferen...
CURT BERGER Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes...
ALBERTO MORAVIA I dropped our very first pass, but the first touchdown was a perfect pass from Aaron. The defender h...
CHRIS ABEL The big deal is not that a computer technician made a mistake, ... The big deal is how the White Hou...
DAN BURTON Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree...
BEN SHAHN I have no obligation to deal with slime.
TERRY SANFORD I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential a...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaboratio...
JON MEACHAM Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Our soul longs to be of service in some way. It's why we are here. If you weren't meant to touch the...
EILEEN ANGLIN My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pisto...
JOHN LYDON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
SYDNEY SMITH Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about o...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about o...
FREDERICK W. FABER We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courag...
MARIAN ANDERSON That looks like some sort of prelude to the rather drawn out and bloody removal of troops. Therein h...
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MARGARET THATCHER There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
MARGARET THATCHER To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it fu...
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MARGARET THATCHER It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
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MARGARET WALKER The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
MARGARET WALKER What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHER Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
MARGARET ATWOOD Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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MARGARET MITCHELL Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic...
MARGARET ATWOOD That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
MARGARET ATWOOD Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.
Aunt Grace leaned closer to the boar...
MARGARET STOHL We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...
MARGARET ATWOOD Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...
MARGARET ATWOOD The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual...
MARGARET MITCHELL Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ...
MARGARET MEAD To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
MARGARET OLIPHANT The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHER Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
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