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Sophie’s World

by Jostein Gaarder

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Dec 30, 2014 12:28AM

“Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb.”
― Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

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“That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
― Anchee Min, Empress Orchid

tags: luck

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“We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."

[ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: double-standards, egotism, greed, negotiation

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