"Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions,"

-- Staffan de Mistura

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“Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever He should, after this, deny or withhold from His people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.”
“God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.”
“Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.”
“Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.”

Source : "Jessica Lynch: One Iraq war veteran's unique perspective" by Susan Candiotti, Ross Levitt, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2011.
“Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains.”
“If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.”

Source : Michael Neill (2006). “You Can Have What You Want”, p.4, Hay House, Inc
“The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.”
“As we lay in the semi-dark hours later, we faced each other, sharing his pillow. I'd never felt more connected to anyone.”

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