"How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?"

-- Tom Lantos

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Gestures Quotes

“The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust”

Source : "A subsurface ocean may provide water and heat" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. February 28, 2002.
“Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.”
“Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.”
“In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.”
“Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.”
“It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a position to show that our ideology is vital enough to withstand the pressure of the changing times, and to decided in what way the fact of our being Muslims will affect the course of our lives: in other words, we must find out whether Islam can offer us precise directives for the formation of our society, and whether its inspiration is strong enough in us to translate these directives into practice.”
“The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.”
“To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.”

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