"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.”
“The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.”
“The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.”
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”

Source : "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.
“Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.243, Random House
“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 19, 2016
“You fight to defend a lover, not to win one. If you do, it isn't love.”

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