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Quote by Henning Mankell
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of thei

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives – which is true – but theres also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival. – Henning Mankell

Other quotes by Henning Mankell

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that its a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls. – Henning Mankell

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Society
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Henning Mankell
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I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. Theres European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European. – Henning Mankell

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Experience
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I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly. – Henning Mankell

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Hope
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Wisdom
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Wisdom alone is true ambitions aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. – William Whitehead

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Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. – Ray Kurzweil

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Wisdom

He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream. – Proverb

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Wisdom

Dont taunt the alligator until after youve crossed the creek. – Dan Rather

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Wisdom

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A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. – A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth

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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. – Ernest Hemingway

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. – Francis Bacon

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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. – Diane Ackerman

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Sky & Clouds