"Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people."

-- Heinrich Heine

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“You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths”
“In general, Iranians believe that all Palestinians have the right to return home and that there is no chosen people on this earth, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian. Iran had the same policy towards apartheid South Africa and at the time when it was supporting and funding the ANC [African National Congress] among other groups in South Africa, these groups were also considered to be terrorist organizations by many western governments.”
“We only live once, and how would you want to be remembered? I have kids. I have, due to my job, a probably higher responsibility to do good things in my life. But also, since I was a kid, I love doing things out of context, helping friends, being different, being a special kind of man is important for me.”
“No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.”

Source : Tammara Webber (2013). “Here Without You”, p.123, Tammara Webber
“Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?”
“Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.436, Hachette UK
“Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.”

Source : Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.
“Grow strong, my comrade â€¦ that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.”

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