Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
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I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
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I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
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If you want the world to knowWe won't let hatred growPut a little love in your heart.
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Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.
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A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
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A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.
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I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.
