"The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth."

-- Eduardo Galeano

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“Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
“The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.”

Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
“RÃ¶ntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.”
“There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children”

Source : "Why I'm moving to Europe". Interview with Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2006.
“All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.”
“Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.”

Source : "Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Fun". The Village Voice Review, www.villagevoice.com. August 18, 2009.
“Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.”

Source : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
“Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”

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