"No one has ever suffered from his people as I have."

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

“When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.”

Source : Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.171, Penguin
“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.
“Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.”
“If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.”
“...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.”
“We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none.”

Source : Errol Walton Barrow (1987). “Speeches by Errol Barrow”, Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited
“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”

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