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Scilla Elworthy has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are…
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Change happens at the level of the individual
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system…
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More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of…
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding…
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Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can…
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There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
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We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which…
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
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Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the…
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To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of…
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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government…
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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came…
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I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.
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I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical…
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The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed…
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[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I…
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people…
— Natasha Richardson
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[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.
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I will never take the fact that I am Welterweight Champion for granted. I learnt my mistake in the past. No matter…
— Georges St-Pierre
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I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful.…
— Jane Goodall
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