The saying “it’s always in the last place you look” is redundant. Of course it is, once you found it you stop looking for it. [link]

‏الحقُّ أنني أكره إيقاعَ المدن؛ حيثُ يُشعرني - باستمرار - أن هناك ما يوشِكُ أن يقع. بينما في الريف، يوحي الإيقاعُ البطيء؛ أن كل شيءٍ على ما يرام. حتى في الجنائز، يسيرون ببطء، تاركين للجنازةِ ما يكفي من الوقت، لأنْ تتراجعَ عن قرارها، وتعودَ إلى الحياة.
علي عكور

Over the long term, our species, like every other, has just two possible evolutionary fates over the long term: extinction, or further splitting apart into a number of daughter species—each of which will either go extinct or split again.
Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become their ancestors

- The mating mind

خلصت واحد من ألطف الكتب اللي قريتها + أفكاره جانت provocative إلى حد ما وهالشي كلش حبيته بالكتاب

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VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS HE IS A RELIGIOUS MAN, A GREAT supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church. If so, he may well go to bed each night, say his prayers and ask God: ‘Why didn’t you put some mountains in Ukraine?’
If God had built mountains in Ukraine, then the great expanse of flatland that is the North European Plain would not be such encouraging territory from which to attack Russia repeatedly. As it is, Putin has no choice: he must at least attempt to control the flatlands to the west. So it is with all nations, big or small. The landscape imprisons their leaders, giving them fewer choices and less room to manoeuvre than you might think. This was true of the Athenian Empire, the Persians, the Babylonians and before; it was true of every leader seeking high ground from which to protect their tribe.


- Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall

The land on which we live has always shaped us

More arguments take place in your mind than in reality. [link]

‏لا تتماسك ..
‏إرْتَبِك أمام الجمال ، هذا موقفٌ أصيل .
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"Sunday Painting No. 2" by Stephen Mackey

"Forecourt of The Umayyad Mosque, Damascus" by Gustav Bauernfeind