"Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death."

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Boris Pasternak

#Country Quotes #Borders Quotes #Departure Quotes

“More people use guns to kill themselves than to kill others.”
“In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way.”
“The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.”
“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.”
“Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.”
“People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.”
“Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.”

Source : Marvin Lowenthal, Henrietta Szold (1942). “Henrietta Szold: Life and Letters”, New York : Viking Press
“Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa”

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