Dvacet Dva Quotes & Sayings

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled. — Noam Chomsky

Love is the magic ink, which transform everyday life into a poetry. — Debasish Mridha

Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago
had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth. — Toba Beta

We fucked, Ms. Lane. Even cockroaches fuck. They eat each other, too. — Karen Marie Moning

Love without hope will not survive.
Love without faith changes nothing.
Love gives power to hope and faith. — Toba Beta

I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did. — Dean Wareham

A society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists. — Paul Theroux

But not like this: not with
the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad ... recycled."
"Carter Kane, Chapter 41 — Rick Riordan

Islam invaded Europe twice from the Mediterranean - first in Iberia, the second time in southeastern Europe, as well as nibbling at Sicily and elsewhere. Christianity invaded Islam multiple times, the first time in the Crusades and in the battle to expel the Muslims from Iberia. Then it forced the Turks back from central Europe. The Christians finally crossed the Mediterranean in the 19th century, taking control of large parts of North Africa. Each of these two religions wanted to dominate the other. Each seemed close to its goal. Neither was successful. What remains true is that Islam and Christianity were obsessed with each other from the first encounter. Like Rome and Egypt they traded with each other and made war on each other. — George Friedman

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought. — Juan Cole