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Come Back, Just Come Back
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Children will treat the world by the way they have been treated…..
hold them close and love them unconditionally.
~ Leila L’Abate
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Oh rascal children of Gaza,
You who constantly disturbed me with your screams
under my window,
You who filled every morning with rush and chaos,
You who broke my vase and stole the lonely flower on my
balcony,
Come back -
And scream as you want,
And break all the vases,
Steal all the flowers,
Come back,
Just come back…
~ Oh Rascal Children of Gaza, by Khaled Juma
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There could be a happy world, where cooperation was more in evidence than competition, and monotonous work is done by benevolent and beneficent machines, where what is lovely in nature is not destroyed to make room for hideous machines whose sole business is to kill, and where to promote joy is more respected than to produce mountains of corpses.
Do not say this is impossible: it is not. It waits only for men to desire it more…
