Tahani

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“تبسيط الأمور هو الطريق إلى الإخفاق في فهمها ”
― عبد الكريم بكار, تكوين المفكر

“العاديون من الناس يرون كل شيء عاديا , لأن بنيتهم العقلية والمعرفية هشة وضحلة , ولهذا فإنهم لا يفرقون بين ماهو متفوق وماهو عادي , وبين ما هو طبيعي وما هو غير طبيعي , وهم لذلك محرومون من الشعور بالدهشة الذي يتمتع به المبدعون والمثقفون الكبار”
― د.عبد الكريم بكار, تكوين المفكر

“In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.

In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.

I liked the Irish way better.”
― C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman