"Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!"

-- Bertha von Suttner

#Pride Quotes #People Quotes #Age Quotes

“I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.”
“You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.”
“Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others donâ€™t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.”
“H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.”
“I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.”
“An evil gain equals a loss.”
“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.”
“Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward”

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