One for the books:
- Shoppers depleted stores in the border town of Rafah, prompting Ashraf el-Sayyid, an Egyptian, to ride his motorbike into the Gaza Strip — going against both traffic and logic.
- "I need to buy bread for my children," he said. "The Palestinians left us with nothing. It's true, they are dear to us, but today, they were like locusts." [1]
Useful reading edit
Quotes to keep in mind edit
"Damn the Americans and damn the Persians!" [2] - Last words of genocidal tyrant Saddam Hussein, whose hatred for Persians far surpassed that of Jews, Kurds, and Arab Shi'a. Let it never be forgotten how hatred darkens the soul of human beings and transforms them into monstrous fiends. See also Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." - Thomas Jefferson
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any other church that I know of. My own mind is my own church." - Thomas Paine
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." - Thomas Jefferson
"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." - Abraham Lincoln
"Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" -- James Madison