"I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc."

-- Hans Blix

#Thinking Quotes #Together Quotes #Middle East Quotes

“Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.”
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”

Source : "The Value of Convenience: Genealogy of Technical Culture". Book by Thomas F. Tierney (p. 128), 1993.
“Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements”
“We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.”
“Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.”
“Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.”
“I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I'm proud of. Save for two projects, which will never pass my lips, I'm happy with what I've done.”
“Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.”

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