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…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#creation-myths #mythology #science #science

Remember, the enemy's gate is down. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#ender #ender-s-gate #enemy-gate-is-down #orson #orson-scott-card

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#insanity #enemy

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#revenge #enemy

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies. ↗

— Sara Shepard

#friends #lies #the-lying-game #enemy

The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again. The one who wanted her baby back lost chance of having one again, And the one who had a vision to see his country change became blind. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fullmetal-alchemist #loss #sad #change

The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#arab-women #army #military #role-of-women-in-islam #women

...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. ↗

— Virgil

#greek #greek-mythology #mythology #mythology

Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#change

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#change