"The current relationship between Syria and Iran is abnormal. It is unprecedented in Syria's foreign policy history. A new Syria will be an indispensable part of the Arab League and it will work on improving the role of the Arab League and the role of Arab states regionally, specifically because they took a historic and unprecedented decision to back the Syrian people."

-- Burhan Ghalioun

#League Quotes #People Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap of many years and realize that it has been there all along, without any memory of where it was first encountered. But it may have been working away all the time.”
“The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.”
“My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, â€œYou know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.”
“Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their own idols to represent God until Jesus returns. The religion of fundamentalism is idolatry.”
“For me giving up is way harder than trying.”
“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
“By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.”

Source : Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.209, A&C Black
“If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?”

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