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Your success and the successes of others you inspire can heal your wounds.

— Ilhan Omar This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (2020)

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Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.

I am America’s hope and the president’s nightmare.

I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.

My strength doesn't come from a lack of fear but from an overpowering sense of moral outrage.

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (2020)

Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes. The IDF reportedly blowing up one of the few places the injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war is horrific.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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