"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."

-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Thinking Quotes #Losing Quotes #Claims Quotes

“You have the right to not have to constantly manage how you look for other people's sake. You aren't here to decorate the world for other people. You're here to live in it for yourself, no matter what that looks like.”

Source : Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.63, Ten Speed Press
“Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.”

Source : Said at the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition. The Globe, p. 1, August 29, 1906.
“It has to be now,â€ he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. â€œAfter all, you canâ€™t allow me to go around like this all day.â€ â€œFrom what Iâ€™ve learned so far, this is your natural condition,â€ came her pert reply.”
“Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.”
“Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent”
“The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.”
“Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.”

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