"There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh."

-- Mohammad Marandi

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“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
“Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings.”

Source : Rosalie Maggio (2009). “How to Say It, Third Edition: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation”, p.11, Penguin
“I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2003). “The Speed of Dark”
“When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.”
“Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.”
“I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.”
“In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.”
“I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.”

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