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Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Life is politics, you do it or it does you”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
tags: ambition, ambition-and-attitude, ambition-life-ambitions, ambition-quote, ambition-quotes, ambitions, bangambiki, dictatorship, lies-politics, love-of-power, lust-for-power, macchiavelli, machiavellian, misuse-of-power, political, political-ambition, political-ambition-quotes, political-correctness, political-philosophy, politicians, politics, power, power-addiction, survival-instinct, survival-is-the-name-of-the-game, survival-of-the-fittest, survival-quotes, survival-story, survivalism, survivalist, survive, surviving-life, survivor, the-great-pearl-of-wisdom
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James Clavell
“How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun
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Arthur C. Clarke
“Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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James Clavell
“First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun
tags: atheism, priests, religion
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