"We are required to forgive everyone."

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Source : Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.30, Egmont UK

Bree Despain

#Forgiving Quotes

“Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.”
“Dysfunctional states like Afghanistan need business people who are deeply rooted in their country and invest in it. They can add stability. But all development programs of the United States and the European countries unfortunately exclude the private sector, which could make investments based on profitability.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.”
“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain. You would like to play the piano, but the rain comes to sit alongside and play an accompaniment. And then the dry weather returns, which is to say there is steam and bright light. People age quickly.”
“There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.”
“The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.”
“If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.”
“Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.”

Source : "Dream Machine" by Rivka Galchen, www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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