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Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.

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All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.

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I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

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Freya Stark

Born: January 31, 1893

Died: May 9, 1993 (aged 100)

Bio: Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne was a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographical works and essays.

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