"Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it."

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Andre Naffis-Sahely

#Political Quotes #Shy Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.”

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“The United States has weakened itself with Iraq; Iranians feel victorious - they feel capable of filling the void. I think from the very outset the nuclear issue has been secondary to the more strategic outlook, in which the United States has, since 1991, pursued a policy that it cannot permit any country in the region to become too powerful and challenge American hegemony.”
“Youths are passed through schools that donâ€™t teach, then forced to search for jobs that donâ€™t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”
“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
“Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.”
“Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!”
“My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.”
“There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values â€” is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.”

Source : Karl Jaspers (2014). “Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals)”, p.91, Routledge

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