"I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution"

-- Jalal Talabani

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“A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."”
“The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.”
“History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.”

Source : Holbrook Jackson (1932). “The Fear of Books”, p.34, University of Illinois Press
“I find motivation anytime I need it, no matter how bad Iâ€™m hurting I can push through anything”
“The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.”
“The spirit of Buddhism is, more than anything, about valuing harmony and unity, in which others are respected and embraced rather than denounced. This has been the way of Buddhism since the beginning, and this is true Buddhism.”

Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.137
“The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.”
“A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.”

Source : 'House of All Nations' (1938) 'Credo'

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