174301m Quotes & Sayings

There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland. — Benjamin Netanyahu

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Dispelling fear but knowledge be,
Replacing our doubts completely,
Nothing need be feared undoubtedly,
But must be comprehended absolutely.
[49] - 4 — Munindra Misra

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. — Michel Houellebecq

We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going. — Thomas Sowell

Death's power lies in fear, which flourishes in the imagination and the unknown. — Wade Davis

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it ... — George Bernard Shaw

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. — Thomas Merton

I would never have discovered alcohol. — David Strickland

I don't think it's anything you ever get used to ... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable ... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong. — Johnny Depp

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. — Charles Kendall Adams

I knew yours to be the more resilient spirit. — Tessa Dare