#not

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

#common #common people #history #memory #past

However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#against #another #community #does #even

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#another #because #community #cost #council

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#anarchy #away #break #break up #cannot

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ↗

— Mark Twain

#against #being #cannot #chances #deceive

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#civil #dead #ghost #i #i am

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#experience #go #place #prescriptions #you

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#fabulously #hard #leave #notes #superfluous

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#getting #gonna #good #i #like

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

#comfort #daily #derived #desirable #desire