39, work in high tech. Former ballroom dance teacher. Proud supporter of Kurdish independence. Jerusalem, Israel. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. - Saul Bellows “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” – Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War "A pen isn't mightier than a sword. Pens do not do battle, nor swords poetry. Mighty is the hand that knows when to pick up the pen, or pick up the sword." - Wiegraf Folles "There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world. That is jungle law. It is the way of the world when the world is thrown into chaos. It is our job to avert that chaos, to fight against it, to resist the urge to become savage. Because the problem with such law is that if you follow it, you are always fighting against someone." - Nafisa Haji, The Sweetness of Tears "We're fools whether we dance or not, so we may as well dance." - Japanese Proverb