"Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others."

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Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#Responsibility Quotes #Done Quotes #Action Quotes

“Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.”
“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
“I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Rush Limbaugh is saying he never took Trump seriously in the first place.”
“Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.”
“If I knew you and you knew me- If both of us could clearly see, And with an inner sight divine The meaning of your heart and mine I'm sure that we would differ less And clasp our hands in friendliness: Our thoughts would pleasantly agree, If I knew you and you knew me.”

Source : Nixon Waterman (2017). “Boy Wanted”, p.59, Litres
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.70, Counterpoint
“I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?”

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