"Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by."

-- Mahmoud Darwish

#Wall Quotes #Army Quotes #Attachment Quotes

“Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash”
“One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse.”

Source : "Big Pharma’s Delicate Dance on Drug Prices". Interview with Peter Loftus, www.wsj.com. February 21, 2016.
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
“youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!”
“Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.158, Vintage
“Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.”
“When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.”
“One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef”

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