"It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Hassan Blasim

#Iraq Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Use Quotes

“Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.”
“With voice acting it just matters what your voice can do. There are some things that I won't get over other people because my register isn't as deep as other people. So if someone wants a deep, dark, brooding villain voice then they are probably not going to pick me.”
“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

Source : "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.
“Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”

Source : "The Name of this Book is Secret". Book by Pseudonymous Bosch, 2007.
“If Britain becomes a member of the Community, it will be healthier for Britain, advantageous for Europe, and a gain for the whole world. I do not know of many economic or political problems in the world which will be easier to solve if Britain is outside rather than inside the Community.”
“Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.”

Source : Gil Amelio, William L. Simon (1998). “On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple”, HarperCollins Publishers
“I surround myself with strong willed, courageous personalities, because I've got to be coached by the best.”
“Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.”

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