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A.Alhomsi

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A.Alhomsi’s Quotes

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

tags: military, police, violence

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“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom

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“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
― Theodor Adorno

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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