"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland."

-- Sydney Smith

#Scotland Quotes #Switzerland Quotes #Looks Quotes

“It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.”
“Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity...”
“I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.”
“Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.”

Source : Matt Cameron, Tim Finn (2009). “Poor Boy”
“Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.”
“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
“For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.”

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