"All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Hassan Blasim

#Mother Quotes #Running Quotes #Children Quotes

“They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.”
“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.”
“Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.”

Source : "The Dream of Scipio". Book by Iain Pears, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.
“The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.”
“The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.”
“The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.”
“Marriage is obsolete and a trap.”

Source : "Why French Women Have More Sex Than Their American Sisters" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.
“I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.”

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