"This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq."

-- Park Geun-hye

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“Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.”
“Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.”

Source : Song: Sinners Like Me, Album: Sinners Like Me, 2006
“The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.”
“Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.”
“To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.”
“People have such a distinctive look to them these days. Whatever image they're doing, a lot of the time it sums up their character a bit. There are not many individual people anymore - they dress the same as their friends. It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.”

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“And another question was unfortunately not asked of GÃ¶ring: 'The German people put faith in you even if they doubted Hitler because you were gentlemanly and more likable. What did you, GÃ¶ring, do to justify this confidence? You have led a luxurious life and collected stolen art.”
“I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.”

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