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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

“All ideologies are relative: the only absolute is the torment that men inflict on each other…”
- Yevgenia Ginzburg (1906 – 1977), Russian writer: in Erik de Mauny, “Russian Prospect: Notes of an American Correspondent”, 1970.

“The fact of the instability of evil is the moral order of the world.”
- A. N. Whitehead (1861 – 1947), English mathematician and philosopher: Introduction to Victor Gollancz, “A Year of Grace”, 1950.

“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
- Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888), American writer: “Little Women”, 1869.

“The Hero can be Poet, Prophet, King, Priest or whatever you will, according to the kind of world he finds himself born into.”
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881), Scottish historian, biographer, critic and essayist: ‘The Hero as Poet’, 1841.




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