We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly. After so many centuries, we're still a people who eat fire and drink water.' 'Why bother, then?' 'Because we have to believe that one day we'll learn. Arlene J. Chai
How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?
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Maaza Mengiste
To be “out of touch” with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.
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Mona Eltahawy
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing....
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Anonymous
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Victor Hugo
For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
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Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By Arlene J. Chai
Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.
I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts... I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's...
But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.
The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.
We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly....
