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“The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words… beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.” quote by Freya Stark — Download Open image

“The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words… beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.”

Freya Stark

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Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

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From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

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Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.

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At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that…

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From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent,…

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The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide.…

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Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind…

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Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco…

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The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He…

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