"They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity."

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Source : "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

Ari Shavit

#Moving Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Maturity Quotes

“Life is the only race you'll run where you don't know where the finish line is.”
“We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.”
“I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”
“History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.”
“Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.”
“Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.”
“Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.11

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