"Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world."

-- Hesham Qandil

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“The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.”

Source : 1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.
“Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or LautrÃ©amont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.”
“Socrates splits himself into two, so that there are two Socrates: the Socrates who knows in advance how the discussion is going to end, and the Socrates who travels the entire dialectical path along with his interlocutor.”

Source : "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 153), 2001.
“The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
“When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.”
“Do not refuse a wing to the persons who gave you the whole chicken.”
“In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 1, 2018
“The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'”

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