"you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was."

-- Irina Ratushinskaya

#Being Yourself Quotes #Hate Quotes #Years Quotes

“Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.”
“I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.”
“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.”
“A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.”

Source : "Engel:'I've seen so many ugly things'". "War Zone Diary 2008", www.nbcnews.com. July 6, 2008.
“Silence is a text easy to misread.”

Source : A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Eagle and the Sword”, Harper Prism
“There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something to ponder as you watch the famous cantina scene in Star Wars. ... Does this make sense, given the overwhelmingly likely situation that galactic civilizations differ in their level of evolutionary development by thousands or millions of years? Would you share drinks with a trilobite, an ourang-outang, or a saber-toothed tiger? Or would you just arrange to have a few specimens stuffed and carted off to the local museum?”
“Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.”

Source : Jon Elster (1989). “Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences”, p.74, Cambridge University Press
“Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.”

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