"exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century."

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Source : Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.144, St. Martin's Press

Phyllis Chesler

#Psychology Quotes #Might Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The girly movie i secretly love is Pippy Longstockings.”
“There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records...”
“Utopias are often just premature truths.”
“Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.”
“I got killed against Morimoto. I brought out white plates with food; I thought that was really nice. He brings out sculptures of ice, Noah's ark made of balsa wood that he carved at his restaurant downstairs, smoking trees ... When I saw that, I looked at my sous chef and I'm like, we're toast.”
“Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?”
“There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation.”
“The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.”

Source : John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”

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