It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it. - Isak Dinesen

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Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

Isak Dinesen

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

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If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?

Children, Know, Lying, Song

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Animal, Lost, People, Silence

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest. . . pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

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Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

Absurdity, Brave, Dangerous, Fantastic, Solution

I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.

Heart, Long, Love, True, Trying, Understand

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