"There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink."

-- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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“My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.”
“The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.”
“Do what you like and do it honestly.”
“The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.”
“The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you have conquered all your sins, pride is the one which will conquer you. A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he's convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he's a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have god on their side. Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous.”
“True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.”
“though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub
“Most Turkish Kurds want a quiet life and improved economic conditions. But the Kurdish regions of Turkey are mountainous; they're ill-favored climatically; they're poor; and there's a limit to what the government can do there without wasting a lot of resources. Developing the south east may mean decamping a large part of its population. But the thing that will improve the lot of the Kurds more than anything else will be the stabilization of Iraq in the first place, because then the Turkish southeast stops being a dead end. It can become a bridge, with trade flowing in both directions.”

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