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There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.

There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.
– Alexander McCall Smith

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  2. Be careful when rising to the top. Be more careful when you get there. The higher you go, the riskier it gets. Be careful. Be very careful. – Israelmore Ayivor
  3. Everything she knew about him rushed through her mind like a tidal wave. – Caroline Hanson
  4. Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down-”or up, I suppose-”replacing other people in the process. – Alexander McCall Smith
  5. If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time. – Alexander McCall Smith
  6. People don’t talk about mercy very much these days-”it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary – Alexander McCall Smith
  7. -¦the world was a vale of tears-”it always had been. – Alexander McCall Smith
  8. Myth could be as sustaining as reality – sometimes even more so. – Alexander McCall Smith
  9. She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds. – Alexander McCall Smith
  10. The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father. – Alexander McCall Smith
  11. A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people – at the most. – Alexander McCall Smith
  12. But he’ll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one’s soul. – Alexander McCall Smith
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  14. Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known – Alexander McCall Smith
  15. International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky. – Alexander McCall Smith
  16. If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least. – Alexander McCall Smith
  17. It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to-”or you ignored at your peril. – Alexander McCall Smith
  18. To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. – Alexander McCall Smith
  19. There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries. – Alexander McCall Smith
  20. It’s because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That’s the reason. – Alexander McCall Smith
  21. It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one’s anger. – Alexander McCall Smith
  22. we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be. – Alexander McCall Smith
  23. And if you do see any pirates, I don’t want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand? – Alexander McCall Smith
  24. …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
  25. …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
  26. It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. – Alexander McCall Smith
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  28. my beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body. – Pablo Neruda
  29. It’s nice when you can ride the inspirational wave, but as a writer, you’ll also find how fast you can lose that wave. You must persevere. – Charles Lee
  30. You don’t drown because you can’t breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable. – Katherine Catmull
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  32. I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood. – Keri Hulme
  33. Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool. – Mary Catherine Bateson
  34. Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. – Shankara
  35. He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. – Dave Malloy
  36. Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. – Gertrude Stein
  37. If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. – Gertrude Stein
  38. If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  39. Your name may be ‘writ in water’, but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think. – DJ MacLennan
  40. For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores. – Cristina Garca

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