"Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps."

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Martha Gellhorn

#Country Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Promise Quotes

“It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.”
“We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.”
“The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.”
“Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.”
“True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.”
“I love those who can smile in trouble...”
“No matter how deep the issue is and no matter how long you have struggled with it, the possibility exists for you to become absolutely free, whole, and healed.”

Source : Brandon Bays (2012). “The Journey: A Practical Guide to Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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