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“If you have a headache, put on smaller shoes”
I think it’s a Chinese proverb, I don’t know where I heard it, but I believe it, as sometimes this proverb perfectly works.

Alexander the Great once came and stood opposite Diogenes of Sinope and said, “I am Alexander the great king.” “And I, ” said he, “am Diogenes the Cynic.” When someone was extolling the good fortune and splendor another had experienced in sharing the suite of Alexander, Diogenes said, “Not so, but rather ill fortune […]

The help people need most urgently is help in admitting that they need help.

The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal.
The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may experience it as such. Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking: all the rest of the world is slow, gradual and stupid. […]

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi
 

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru
 

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Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
George Burns

A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine.
Bill Cain, “Stand Up Tragedy”

 
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University […]

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality […]

إنكم تستلذون أن تضعوا شرائع لأنفسكم
بيد أنكم تستلذون أكثر أن تكسروها وتتعدوا فرائضها
لذلك أنتم كالأولاد يلعبون على الشاطئ يبنون أبراجا عظيمة بحزم وثبات ثم لا يلبثون أن يهدموها ضاحكين صاخبين
فعندما تبنون أبراجكم الرملية يأتي البحر برمال جديدة إلى الشاطئ
وعندما تهدمون أبراجكم يضحك البحر منكم في نفسه لأن البحر يضحك من الأبرياء أبدا
ولكن ماذا أقول في […]

Old pirates yes they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I from the
Bottom less pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation triumphantly
All I ever had is songs of freedom
Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had redemption […]

Un autre chef d’œuvre de Roberto Benigni est “La Tigre e la Neve”. Un film impressionant racontant d’Attilio Giovanni professeur de poésie qui cherche à séduire Vittoria ; elle est allée en Iraq où elle est gravement blessée, et voilà qu’Attilio la rejoint pour tenter de la sauver, sans même savoir qu’il y a […]

(Gracias Susana )
 
Casi, casi nada me resulta pasajero
Todo prende de mis sueños
Y se acoplan en mi espalda y así subo
Muy tranquilo la colina de la vida
Nunca me creo en la cima o en la gloria
Eso es un gran fantasma
Creado por generaciones, pasará
Atascado en el camino de la vida.
 
La realidad duerme sola en un […]

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out…and help to slaughter strangers of […]

… why should you waste a single moment of *your* life seeming to be something you don’t want to be? Lord, that’s so simple. If you hate your job, quit it. If your friends are tedious, go out and find new friends. You are queer, you lucky fool, and that makes you one of […]

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انكم تصيرون أحرارا بالحقيقة إذا لم تكن أيامكم بلا عمل تعملون ولياليكم بلا حاجة تفكرون بها أو كآبة تتأملون لذكراها
بل تكونون أحرارا عندما تمنطق هموم الحياة وأعمالها أحقاءكم بمنطقة الجهاد والعمل وتثقل كاهلكم بالمصاعب والمصائب ولكنكم تنهضون من تحت أثقالها عراة طليقين
لأنكم كيف تستطيعون أن ترتفعوا إلى ما فوق أيامكم ولياليكم إذا […]

If you are looking for arguments to disapprove wars and promote peace, I would suggest you watch Lord of War.
When I found the movie at the catalogue, I remembered a Tom’s post and decided to take it.
Yuri (Nicolas Cage) is a Ukrainian emigree who lives in New York and who decided to sell guns […]