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“اننا نتعلم لغة شعب من الشعوب لكي نستطيع أن نتكلم معه ، و لكن علينا ان نتعلم تاريخه إذا كنا نريد أن نفهمه”
― محمد حسنين هيكل

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Only the impossible is worth doing.”
― Akong Rinpoche

“First-generation immigrants are a species all their own. They wear a lot of beige, grey or brown. Colours that do not stand out. Colours that whisper, never shout. There is a tendency to formality in their mannerisms, a wish to be treated with dignity. They move with a slight ungainliness, not quite at ease in their surroundings. Both eternally grateful for the chances life has given them and scarred by what it has snatched away, always out of place, separated from others by some unspoken experience, like survivors of a car accident.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“قال: إيه مراد ابن آدم؟
قلت له: طقه
قال: إيه يكفي منامه؟
قلت له: شقّه
قال: إيه يعجّل بموته؟
قلت له: زقه
قال: حـد فيها مخلّد؟
قلت له: لأه
قال لي: ما دام ابن آدم بالصفات دي
نويت أحفظ صفات ابن آدم كل ما اترقى.”
― بيرم التونسي, مختارات من شعر بيرم التونسي