"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."

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Source : "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

Abba Eban

#Israel Quotes #Algeria Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.”
“The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works”
“Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.”
“I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.”
“Willingness to take risks is the path to success.”

Source : Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.55, Pan Macmillan
“The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.”

Source : Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.121, Harmony
“The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.”
“The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.”

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