Yehuda Amichai Quotes
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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I need to have daily improvement in everything we do and I basically felt throughout the entire spring that we did do that.
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A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.
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I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always messy.
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
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From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
