"No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the Messiah, when national barriers will no longer exist and all mankind will live in brotherhood and concord. Until then, the nations must narrow their aspirations to achieve a tolerable modus vivendi."

-- Leon Pinsker

#Distance Quotes #Israel Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?”
“This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.”

Source : Andrew Klavan (2009). “Empire of Lies”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.”
“Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.”
“When you know and feel the miracle that you are, you become certain that nothing is impossible for you.”
“Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.”
“Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.”

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