"If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'."

-- Mourid Barghouti

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Way Quotes

“Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where is Echo, beheld of no man,Only heard on river and mere-She whose beauty was more than human?-But where are the snows of yester-year?”

Source : 'Ballade des dames du temps jadis' from 'Le Grand Testament' (1461) (translation by D. G. Rossetti)
“Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.”
“I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is." I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically.”
“The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
“The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.”
“We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.”
“Dried oregano has thirty times the brain-healing antioxidant power of raw blueberries, forty-six times more than apples, and fifty-six times as much as strawberries, making it one of the most powerful brain cell protectors on the planet.”

Source : Daniel G. Amen (2012). “Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to look, feel and think younger every day”, p.78, Hachette UK
“It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.”

Source : Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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