"You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who did Paris came from, where they transited, where they went. None of them even set foot in Iran. So why are you punishing people who are visiting Iran for that? . . . We're not going to radicalize them. We never have. Your allies have radicalized people who visited."

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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“America needs a Commander in Chief, not a Global Community Organizer.”

Source : "Liz Cheney Slams Obama On Foreign Policy: 'America Needs A Commander In Chief, Not A Global Community Organizer'". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2009.
“I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.”
“There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.”
“More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin
“love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.”

Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”
“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”
“Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
“The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we must remember that we are within culture, and our calling in Christ is to play our part in the redemption and transformation of individuals and cultures. I believe the recent history of the religious subculture teaches all too clearly that unless we are moving forward in seeking the genuine transformation of culture, then we are standing still and it is transforming us.”

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