Mohamed al-Jamri

“I am sometimes taken aback by how people can have a miserable day or get angry because they feel cheated by a bad meal, cold coffee, a social rebuff or a rude reception. We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance of occurrence of monstrous proportions. Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don’t be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking at the gift horse in the mouth – remember you are a Black Swan.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ [parasitic wasps] with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
― Charles Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 1

“To be free, above all, was to be free from enslavement to one’s own basest desires, which could never be fulfilled, and the pursuit of which could only foster ceaseless craving and discontent.”
― Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

“هناك قدر من التداخل التام بين العائلة ومؤسسة الحكم والدولة في منطقة الخليج ، قد تصل في بعض الاحيان الى قدر من التماهي يعض فيه الباحث الفصل بينهما”
― باقر سلمان النجار, الحداثة الممتنعة في الخليج العربي: تحوّلات المجتمع والدولة