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“How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.”
― The Stone Woman
― The Stone Woman
“If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.”
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“It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.”
― The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
― The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
― Holidays on Ice
― Holidays on Ice
“[I]n nooks all over the earth sit men who are waiting, scarcely knowing in what way they are waiting, much less that they are waiting in vain. Occasionally the call that awakens– that accident which gives the “permission to act — comes too late, when the best youth and strength for action has already been used up by sitting still; and many have found to their horror when they ‘leaped up’ that their limbs had gone to sleep and their spirit had become to heavy. ‘It is too late,’ they said to themselves, having lost their faith in themselves and henceforth forever useless.”
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