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What was incredible was how ordinary people, who suffered 100 times worse than anything I have were, stoical beyond belief. I suspect many were understandably repressing quite horrific expereinces tbh.
Is one reason I get so annoyed with people who wish to cut foreign aid having never seen up close the people it helps.
Like I said, great thread :-) Am sure lots of more people have gems to share.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime..
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
another two from mark twain
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
forensic experts say footers and spruces fingerprints were not found at the scene after the weekends rows
"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."
“I would have been the world’s greatest at whatever I did. If I were a garbage man, I’d be the world’s greatest garbage man! I’d pick up more garbage and faster than anyone has ever seen. "
“I run on the roads, long before I dance under the lights. I hated every minute of my training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’.”
Karl Marx:
“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
The Golden Rule. Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
"When my bird was looking at my computer monitor... that bird has no idea what he's looking at. And yet what does the bird do, does he panic? No, he can't really panic. He just does the best he can." - Terry A. Davis
"Out you popped and everyone’s shouting: “It’s a boy, it’s a boy!” And somebody said: “But it hasn’t got a winkle!” And I said: “God be praised, it’s a miracle. A boy without a winkle!” And then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. Everyone was really disappointed."
"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."
Bertrand Russell
The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we', the clever ones, are going to impose upon 'them', the Lower Orders.”
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