"...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey."

-- Fran Lebowitz

#War Quotes #Book Quotes #School Quotes

“If you will it, it is no dream”

Source : Altneuland epigraph (1902)
“I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.”
“I think I'm a very kindhearted person, I don't like to hurt people's feelings. If I do, it's not intentionally and I feel a lot of people nowadays have lost that.”
“I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.”
“The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.”

Source : Alfred Tarski (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”, Birkhauser
“A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.”
“I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.”
“While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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