"To revive a man is no slight thing."

-- Nachman of Breslov

“If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.”
“We are confident that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations can become the greatest input of the recent decades in achieving peace and stability in the South Caucasus. With this vision, we have agreed to move forward without any preconditions, not making our relations contingent upon Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, if, as many suspect, it is proven that Turkey's goal is to protract, rather than to normalize relations, we will have to discontinue the process.”

Source : Speech by President Serzh Sargsyan in the Chatham House British Royal Institute of International Affairs, February 10, 2010.
“Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.”

Source : "Four Young Ballerinas Celebrate Dancers Of Color Who Inspire Them" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2017.
“I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.”
“To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.”
“Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.”
“The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
“Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.”

Source : Leonid Andreyev (2007). “The Seven That Were Hanged”, p.168, Wildside Press LLC

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