"We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967."

-- Ismail Haniyeh

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“We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.”

Source : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin
“I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.”
“People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.”
“It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.185, U of Nebraska Press
“Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.”
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
“When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.”
“I love romantic poetry.”

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