"You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high."

-- Dennis A. Ross

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Communication Quotes

“They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.”
“The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.”
“Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.”

Source : Marcus Borg (2012). “Speaking Christian: Recovering the lost meaning of Christian words”, p.103, SPCK
“Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.”
“For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened”
“One man's fantasy is another man's job.”
“An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.”
“I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesnt always match what you get out.”

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