"Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time.……" — Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself."
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52 Quotes by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never…
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How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act,…
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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as…
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First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also…
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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
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In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric,…
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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so…
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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there…
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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you…
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More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.
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He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to…
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Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or…
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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