"Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich."

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Source : Twitter post from Apr 8, 2013

Laila Lalami

#Migrants Quotes #Immigration Quotes #Lexicon Quotes

“Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.”
“The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."”
“Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.”

Source : Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”
“What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?”
“When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.”
“That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.”
“Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.”
“Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.”

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