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“Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.” quote by Joyce Cary — Download Open image

“Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.”

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A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it…

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“Girl going past clinging to a young man's arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking joy. Green in her eyes. Spinal curvature. No chin, mouth like a frog. Young man like a pug. Gazing down at his sweetie with the face of a saint reading the works of God. Hold on, maiden, you've got him.…

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“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree or a church, you've got to let it grow into a masterpiece. Same with a poem or a new religion. They begin as a lot of funny words. Nobody knows whether they're all nonsense or a gift from…

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and…

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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

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Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening.…

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The principal fact of life is the free mind.

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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to…

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