"Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important"

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Source : Zbigniew Herbert (1977). “Selected poems”

Zbigniew Herbert

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“You will never find true love until you first learn to love Allah”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 11, 2013
“I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.”
“'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'”
“I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.”
“No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.”

Source : Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.182, Verso
“We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.”
“Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.”
“Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause.”

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