Alan Borovoy quotes

“I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.”
-- Alan Borovoy

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“I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.”
-- Alan Borovoy

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“Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.”
-- Alan Borovoy

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“I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.”

“You can ruin anything if you focus at it.”

“The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.”

“All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.”

“We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.”

“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

Source : "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

“The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.”

“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India

“I'm just a down-to-earth guy.”

“I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.”