Bassem Zaitoon

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Bassem’s Quotes

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

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“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

tags: defeat

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“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

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لا تمجيداً لشخصه،فهو لا يحتاج لذلك، ولكن تجديداً لأفكاره.. لأننا بحاجة إليها في هذا الزمن التعيس، ولأنني (أنا على الأقل) أفتخر بأن هناك فكر كفكر ميخائ ...more

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رابطة قراء سوريا!!. في كل دول العالم هناك اتحادات للكتاب.. ولكن لا يوجد أي اتحاد للقراء.. ومن المعلوم أن أي شيء يكون مهدداً بالانقراض.. تشكل له جمعيات ...more