"It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere."

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Source : "Storm-Wake". Book by Lucy Christopher, April 5, 2018.

Lucy Christopher

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“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.”
“If they want to come out and watch me paint or dig potatoes or mend fences, I don't care. I don't do interviews not because I have anything to hide, but when you retire, the word has a meaning to me. It's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work. You develop an attitude where you can do what you please.”
“Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.”

Source : Interview with Katie Bacon, www.theatlantic.com. November 02, 2001.
“Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land -movie - Karate kid"What is the calculus of innovation?" "The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives our economic growth."”
“The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.”
“With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.”
“We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.”

Source : "Ehud Olmert: a Profile in Leadership" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2006.

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