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Ryszard Kapuscinski

"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."

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"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."

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Aberjhani

"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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Aberjhani

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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Aberjhani

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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Aberjhani

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

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Aberjhani

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

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Aberjhani

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

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Aberjhani

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

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Aberjhani

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

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Aberjhani

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

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Aberjhani

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."

War

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."

Old

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."

Literature

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured."

Justice

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."

Experience

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."

Man

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"I'll tell you what colonial experience is."

Experience

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."

War

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."

Fear

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise."

Politics

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