Trax: Congo, Commentary (Article links had to be removed)

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Joseph Conrad quotes:

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men."


"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."


"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."


"The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds."


And an excerpt from the article: Congo's Tin Soldiers by Jonathan Miller:


"One hundred years ago, the novelist Joseph Conrad described the colonial plunder of Congo as 'the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the human conscience.'"

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"Every morning between 9 and 12,  I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12, I am there ready for it."


~ Flannery O'Connor

"Of course the government and the newspapers lie. But in a democracy, they're not the same lies."

~Steve Jackson



"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."

~ Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

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Years are something you count, moments are something you remember.


~Cindy Tebo