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“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.”
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept • Paulo Coelho“It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values”
Meditations on Quixote • Jose Ortega y Gasset“The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill““Antioch was the last of the great cities of Arab Asia to have fallen under the domination of the Seljuk Turks: in 1084 it was still a dependency of Constantinople. Thirteen years later, when the Frankish knights laid siege to the town, Yaghi-SiyÁn was naturally convinced that this was part of an attempt””
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes • Amin Maalouf