"The world starts with a Big Bang and finishes with a human-made atomic Big Bang!"

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“The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!”

“Erasers remind us there is no faultless human.”

“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”

“Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.”

“Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!”

“Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!”

Resonant Thoughts

"When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Ass…"

— Malcolm X

Social Activism1925–1965

#life

"That I address you as a friend is no formality. I own no foes. My business in life has been for the past 33 years to enlist the friendship of the whole of humanity by befriending mankind, irrespective…"

— Mahatma Gandhi

Politics1869–1948

#Human Nature

"In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it’s a loss that has done a gr…"

— Antoni Tàpies

Art1923–2012

#art

"The world's complacency about North Korea’s nukes is inspired in large part by memories of stodgy Soviets who had the bomb for 40 years and never used it."

— Brian Reynolds Myers

Education1963

#art