"What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?"

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Source : Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.51, Picador

Robert D. Kaplan

#Smell Quotes #People Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.”
“I stick my neck out for nobody.”
“But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation”

Source : George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press
“Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.”
“My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.”
“I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.”
“As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.”

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