"Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare."

-- Paul Theroux

#Country Quotes #Fall Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.”
“one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.”
“Children in Indonesia are scared because they are like the property of their parents and mostly treated as such. Women are scared because they are humiliated on a daily basis and treated like meat, like sexual objects, like slaves.”
“Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.”
“Memories are doing funny things to us.”
“Anger doesn't win games.”
“The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.”
“Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin

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