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“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
― Jim Butcher, Vignette

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“فإن لم تقدحوا ناراً

فكيف يراكم الأمل

فإن قدحت فكونوا لبها

فتظل تشتعل”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“نهنهي الليل

على كتفي بستان اللوز

وكان الصمت نبي !

طرب بالكون ومن لا يطرب بالكون غبي”
― مظفر النواب

“أيقتلك البردُ ؟ أنا .... يقتلني نِصفُ الدفئِ .. وَنِصفُ المَوقِفِ أكثر!”
― مظفر النواب

“وواهٍ من الإنكسار المرير بعين الرجال”
― مظفر النواب

“ونحب ونستشهد بدون عرائض أو أعذار”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“آه من حبك يا عبدالله حزين أخرس
نتحداهم ..ننفذ من بؤبؤهم
نمسح وجه الأحجار بخلدة
يا خلدة يا قلعتنا البحرية لا يفتحها إلا العشق
وريح الفجر وصوت النورس”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“ياربّ،
"لا تتركني، فأنا وحدي.
والناسُ هنا في غربة”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“لم يعد في المحطةِ إلا الفوانيس الخافتة
وخريفٌ بعيد.. بعيد
كأنك كل الذين أرادوا الصعود ولم يستطيعوا
أو انتظروا

وأنتَ.. من شدّة الحزنِ والصمتِ.. تقطعُ
تذكرتين لنفسك
تقطعُ حُزنين..
لأن القطار بلا امرأةٍ أو صديق.”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“حينما ترتفع القامات لحناً أممياً ثم لا . يأتي العراق, كان قلبي يضطرب, كنت أبكي”
― مظفر النواب

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Don't be ridiculous, please.'
The most insulting words in the world!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man