"There was a time when time did not yet exist."

-- Emile M. Cioran

“The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.”
“All women are natural born espionage agents.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (2011). “The Book of Men: Poems”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company
“Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.”
“There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.”
“People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.”
“Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into." -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill”

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