El Anatsui Quotes
If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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I don't like politicians who vacillate.
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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
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It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.
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The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
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All things are in a state of flux.
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There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
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Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.
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Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works
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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
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If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.
