"It was the ideal of living in Eretz Yisrael that took me out of my house, out of my country and caused me to travel from my place. I left my house; I repudiated my inheritance...Why? Because I wished to travel to the bosom of my mother, Eretz Yisrael."

-- Nahmanides

#Mother Quotes #Country Quotes #House Quotes

“I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.”
“I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.”
“Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.”
“Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.”

Source : "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, February 11, 2003.
“The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization”
“The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.”
“Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.”
“Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.”

Source : James Harrington, John Toland, John Hall (1737). “Oceana”, p.516

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