"Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace."

-- Julien Benda

“I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.”
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
“The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.”
“A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.”
“I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.”
“Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.”
“... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.299, Macmillan
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”

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