"No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents."

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Source : Edward W. Said (2007). “From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays”, p.117, Vintage

Edward Said

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“I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, Iâ€™ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spiritâ€™s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.”
“Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.”
“My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.”
“The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.”
“A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.”

Source : "The Whitlam Government, 1972-1975". Book by Gough Whitlam, 1985.
“I want to play many different characters.”
“Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.”

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