"Although a system may cease to exist in……" — Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes."
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
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52 Quotes by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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