"You have to fight for the soul of your people, you have to fight for the souls of millions of people on both sides, to overcome the legacy of this struggle [between Palestine and Israel] and create a readiness for peace."

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Source : Source: progressive.org

Uri Avnery

#Struggle Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Israel Quotes

“Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.”
“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”
“It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan”
“I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”
“The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.”
“It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.”
“Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.”

Source : Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.53, Univ of California Press
“I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think thatâ€™s the next step after people go, â€˜OK, Iâ€™ve had enough of that improvisation, Iâ€™ve had enough of those short comedy bits. Tell me a story, tell me a more complex story, something that lasts and maybe has a little more meaning to it.â€™ Donâ€™t ever look at whatâ€™s happening now; look at whatâ€™s coming next.”

Source : "Bob Odenkirk’s advice to young people: 'Get out of comedy, because it’s about to collapse'". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. November 11, 2014.

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