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“The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.”

Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001) Afghan military leader

Meeting with European legislators http://www.afghanistannewscenter.com/news/2000/june/jun23i2000.html (11 June 2000).

World , Way , Behavior

“People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

People , World , Behavior

“The Christian land, has lost his sword and shields.”

Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan

It is believed that Skanderbeg said on his death
Source: Alphonse de Lamartine (Ottoman History)

“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.”

Selena Gomez (1992) American singer and actress

“Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”

Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor

Source: Biography

“It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

from the 1986 song "I Know It's Over"
From songs

Hate

“Who taught you to hate yourself?”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Hate

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) late-Romantic Austrian composer

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Variant: You have to die a few times before you actually live.
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Time

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman

History

“The first fruit of forbearance is that people will sympathize with you and they will go against the man who offended you arrogantly.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

People

“(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Variant: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Source: Thirst

Love , Dreams , Understanding , Sleep

“Life is hard but so very beautiful”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Life , Beauty

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Truth , Silence

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor

Tree

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.”

Bertrand Russell book A History of Western Philosophy

Source: 1940s, A History of Western Philosophy (1945)

Stupidity , Understanding

“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.”

Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist

In his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg in early summer 1920, in response to questions on the nature of language, as reported in Discussions about Language (1933); quoted in Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy (1972) by Robert J. Pranger, p. 11, and Theorizing Modernism : Essays in Critical Theory (1993) by Steve Giles, p. 28
Context: We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

“When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal — it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just "too much"”

John Lydon (1956) English singer, songwriter, and musician

but that's exactly what drew me in.
On Kate Bush's first hit, "Wuthering Heights"
The Kate Bush Story (2014)

Time

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