"Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis."

-- Abdallah II

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“When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.”
“The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.”

Source : Philip Berrigan, Fred Wilcox (1996). “Fighting the lamb's war: skirmishes with the American Empire : the autobiography of Philip Berrigan”, Common Courage Pr
“To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners; To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer. Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie; Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.”
“I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies and there I was the skinny lanky girl.”

Source : "5 Things You Didn’t Know About Rumored "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" Star Joyce Giraud!". toofab.com. July 1, 2013.
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
“A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician .”
“Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.”
“God put me on this earth to be a tool.”

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