"From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli."

-- Ahdaf Soueif

#Atheism Quotes #Dollars Quotes #Hemisphere Quotes

“All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.”
“Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.”
“Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.”
“It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.”
“I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.”
“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”
“It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.”
“Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.”

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