"More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms."

--

Jose Ramos-Horta

#Forgiving Quotes #Arms Quotes

“It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?”
“There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.”
“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.”
“If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be heard with specially close attention. Biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding. Biology is complex, messy and richly various, like real life; it travels faster nowadays than physics or chemistry (which is just as well, since it has so much farther to go), and it travels nearer to the ground. It should therefore give us a specially direct and immediate insight into science in the making.”
“Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.”
“Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.”
“We have no solution... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.”
“I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.”

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