"Just a recognition of the reality of decision-making and the state of play in the government of Israel."

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Source : "Quartet's Mideast road map '99.5 percent' done" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. December 20, 2002.

Richard Boucher

#Reality Quotes #Israel Quotes #Play Quotes

“We must never ignore or pass by the prompting of the Spirit to render service to one another.”
“I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.”
“I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.”
“Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.”
“Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales; But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas! With all his canvas set, and inexpert, And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power?”
“What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.”
“Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid.”

Source : "Kagan's thesis hints at her views" by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.
“The moment is the sole reality.”

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