"The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years."

-- Ahmed Ben Bella

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“...what was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us," Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her and there's a lot of beaming happening.”
“Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and is always cruel. We should remember this in an age where morality seems to be disappearing and is being replaced by politics.”
“Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to weapons of mass destruction.”
“By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.”

Source : Kat Duff (2014). “The Secret Life of Sleep”, p.84, Oneworld Publications
“Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.”
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinâ€™s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

Source : Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company
“Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires”
“I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.”

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