"All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces."

-- Blaise Pascal

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“After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the affairs of its neighbors, a policy of assassinating diplomats and of attacking embassies. Iran is responsible for a number of terrorist attacks in the Kingdom, it is responsible for smuggling explosives and drugs into Saudi Arabia. And Iran is responsible for setting up sectarian militias in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, whose objective is to destabilize those countries.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.”
“Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.”

Source : Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing
“We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.”

Source : "Australia pledges help, support" by Grant Holloway, cnn.com. September 11, 2001.
“Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Sep 02, 2012
“When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.”
“School should be the best party in town.”
“The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.”

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