"Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days."

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Source : Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Walter Lever (2004). “Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam”, p.91, Terrace Books

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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“We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues.”

Source : "We have to find new solutions to Latin America's drugs nightmare" by Otto Pérez Molina, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.
“Accept life, and you must accept regret.”
“I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.”
“Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.”
“I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.”
“What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?”
“I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up.... Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State...”
“The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”

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