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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
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"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle."
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"In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region."
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"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
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"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
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"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
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"We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path."
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"Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?"
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"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
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"On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace."
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"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
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"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."
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"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
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"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon."
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"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
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"I am against any reconciliation with Israel."
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
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"The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted."
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"We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory."
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"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
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"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
Soul,
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
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"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
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"I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that."
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"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
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"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
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"The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people."
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"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."
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"Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist."
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"When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it."
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