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In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Amadou Hampate Ba / Writer
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In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

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Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

Amadou Hampate Ba Writer

Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.

Amadou Hampate Ba Writer

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Bobby Unser Race Car Driver

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Lady Bird Johnson Former First Lady Of The United States

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius Philosopher

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Charles Dickens Writer

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

Alistair Maclean Novelist

We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

Lyndon B. Johnson 36th U.S. President

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

Mahatma Gandhi Civil Rights Leader

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