“I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.” WorldFeelsTwoWholeAttentionPoliceSouthSorryCaughtChineseEnteringNorth KoreaKoreanBeijingNorth KoreanEmbassyDefectors Author:Kim Young-sam
“I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.” WorldLooksWholeReadingGrewTravelGrew UpSouthBottomMapsSouth AfricaEncyclopedia Author:Charlize Theron
“The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself.” IfsShouldMayWholeLightOrderSunObjectsShadowWindowShiningSouthCastsDrawingHeightLengthVary Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.” WholeMightAmericaFeltStuffInterestingSeeingPerceptionEuropeSouthHearingEasternDiariesSouth AmericaEastern Europe Author:David Byrne
“The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.” IdeasStatesWholeMinutesReturnSouthIsraelBordersFollyRelevantSheerVocabularyVersusEraseLebanonHezbollah Author:Amos Oz
“For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.” PeopleTryingYearsLittlesMadeReasonWholeKidsEvilGrowing UpPsychologyGrowingTroubleSeriousTerribleDrugFundamentalsSouthDeedsFocusedJailGood PeopleLittle KidTerrible ThingsUpbringingGhettoLots Of FriendsBronxKids Growing Up Author:Philip Zimbardo