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“You can spend your life looking over your shoulder or you can look ahead. I choose to look ahead”

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Pleasant Rowland, born in 1941, is an accomplished journalist. His career is marked by his passion for the news industry and his contributions, which are renowned for their in-depth investigative reporting and sharp insights into social issues. more

“Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.”

“This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."”

Mind Real Home Evil Capacity Tyranny Observation Abstraction Dwelling Extravagant

Book:In Sierra Leone

Source: In Sierra Leone

“Perhaps this is the only real evil left.”

Real Evil Left Vampire Movie

Author:Anne Rice

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