In an interview held on March 2003, lead singer from Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer, was asked about his friendship with Ruben Gonzalez, for which he answered :" Whoever had the chance, and I dare to say, honor, to have met Ruben Gonzalez, would understand my following words.

:" Whoever vainly on his strength depends,

:" It was also said, ' Whoever shall put away his

:" Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me from all the peoples, for all the earth is mine " ().

:" And if a king shall stand up from among the House of David, studying Torah and indulging in commandments like his father David, according to the written and oral Torah, and he will coerce all Israel to follow it and to strengthen its weak points, and will fight The Lord's wars, this one is to be treated as if he were the anointed one.

:" I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them ; as for you, vultures shall devour you here.

:" We are not there because of our friendship, we are there because, like you, we believe it is right to be there and, like you, we shall stay there as long as it seems necessary to achieve the purposes of the South Vietnamese Government and the purposes that we join in formulating and progressing together.

At the age of 51 Nichiren inscribed this doctrine in a form of a mandala describing it as :" this Gohonzon shall be called the great mandala never before known ”.

:" Whereas my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, so shall I add tenfold thereto.

:" The Parliament must exercise vigilance and control over the biggest and most powerful financial institution it has created, the Life Insurance Corporation of India, whose misapplication of public funds we shall scrutinise today.

:" At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

:" I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor.

:" Moses said to God, ' Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, " The God of your fathers has sent me to you ," and they ask me, ‘ What is his name ?’ Then what shall I tell them ?” God said to Moses, “ I AM WHO I AM " — Exodus 3: 13-14 ( New International Version ) ( see Tetragrammaton ).

:" The territory of the Republic of China according to its existing national boundaries shall not be altered except by resolution of the National Assembly.

:" The territory of the Republic of China, defined by its existing national boundaries, shall not be altered unless initiated upon the proposal of one-fourth of all members of the Legislative Yuan, passed by three-fourths of the members of the Legislative Yuan present at a meeting requiring a quorum of three-fourths of all the members, and approved by three-fourths of the delegates to the National Assembly present at a meeting requiring a quorum of two-thirds of all the delegates.

:" The territory of the Republic of China, defined by its existing national boundaries, shall not be altered unless initiated upon the proposal of one-fourth of the total members of the Legislative Yuan, passed by at least three-fourths of the members present at a meeting attended by at least three-fourths of the total members of the Legislative Yuan, and sanctioned by electors in the free area of the Republic of China at a referendum held upon expiration of a six-month period of public announcement of the proposal, wherein the number of valid votes in favor exceeds one-half of the total number of electors.

:" It is not for that reason that I shall respect and entertain you, but because I fear Zeus, the patron of strangers, and pity you.

:" Then whot I ," said Hedinn, " that we shall try it which of us twain is foremost.

:" By that name shall it be called ", said Blanchette Chasseur, " for it is the echo of nature — beautiful from its simplicity.

:" A daughter shall Alfrodull bear, ere Fenrir shall have swallowed her.

:" The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians ; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent ; and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress ; but laws founded in justice and humanity, shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.

:" Whatever / whoever emerges and comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the people of Ammon, shall surely be God ’ s, and I shall sacrifice him / her / it as a burnt offering.

:" Apart from whatever may be the general wish of the Zulu nation, it seems to me that the seizure of the two refugee women in British territory by an armed force crossing an unmistakable and well known boundary line, and carrying them off and murdering them with contemptuous disregard for the remonstrances of the Natal policemen, is itself an insult and a violation of British territory which cannot be passed over, and unless apologised and atoned for by compliance with the Lieutenant Governor ’ s demands, that the leaders of the murderous gangs shall be given up to justice, it will be necessary to send to the Zulu King an ultimatum which must put an end to pacific relations with our neighbours.

:" Dr Laud, Bishop of London, being then at the Council Table, told him if he would not confess he must go to the rack.

:" at last a war arose with the Alamanni, in which he was driven by necessity to confess what before he had of his free will denied.

:" We frankly confess that we detest his subjects ... he has chosen the least pictorial range of scenery and civilization ; he has resolutely treated them as if they were pictorial ... and, to reward his audacity, he has incontestably succeeded.

:" But we confess, and witness openly with the Lord Jesus Christ, that it shall first happen that the stones shall arise, and offer their service, before there shall be any want of executors and accomplishers of God's counsel ; yea, the Lord God hath already sent before certain messengers, which should testify his will, to wit, some new stars, which do appear and are seen in the firmament in Serpentario and Cygno, which signify and give themselves known to everyone, that they are powerful Signacula of great weighty matters.

:" Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus.

:" And then, when Jesus had come to the river Jordan where John was baptizing, and when Jesus came down into the water, a fire was even kindled in the Jordan, and when He was rising up from the water, the Holy Spirit fluttered down upon Him in the form of a dove, as the < U > apostles have written </ U > about this very Christ of ours.

:" And when Jesus came to the Jordan, and being supposed to be the son of Joseph the carpenter ..., the Holy Spirit, and for man's sake, as I said before, fluttered down upon Him, and a voice came at the time out of the heavens-which was spoken also by David, when he said, impersonating Christ, what the Father was going to say to Him-' You are My Son, this day I have begotten you '.

:" Oh, they ain't makin ' Jews like Jesus anymore,

:" Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.

:" For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

:" denieth, that, in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist, are contained truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ ; but saith that He is only therein as in a sign, or in figure, or virtue " and anyone who " saith, that, in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denieth that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood-the species only of the bread and wine remaining-which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation, let him be anathema.

:" In the celebration of Eucharist we believe the Lord Jesus Christ to be present.

:" If, however, you seek Jesus in all things, you will surely find Him.

:" Most gracious Father, who by thy providence rulest, in thy generosity feedest, and by thy blessing preservest all that thou hast created ; bless us, we beseech thee, and these creatures for our use, so that they may be hallowed and of benefit to us, and we, strengthened thereby, may be rendered fitter for all good works ; to the praise of thy eternal name, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

* The " Jesus Seminar :" Liberal Theologians Investigating the Life of Jesus

:" While he granted that David whom authorship of many of the Psalms is traditionally ascribed was unquestionably a chosen instrument of God, Watts claimed that his religious understanding could not have fully apprehended the truths later revealed through Jesus Christ.

:" O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it ; that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him, and keep his commandments which he has given them, that they may always have his Spirit to be with them.

:" O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee, in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this to the souls of all those who drink of it, that they may do it in remembrance of the blood of thy Son, which was shed for them ; that they may witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them.

:" That the bare death of Jesus Christ without a thought or deed on the part of man, is sufficient to present the chief of sinners spotless before God.

:" Your Excellency should know that on that day when we entered this village ( Cebu City ), one of the soldiers went into a large and well-built house of an indio where he found an image of the Child Jesus ( whose most holy name I pray may be universally worshipped ).

:" When Hannan, the keeper of the archives, saw that Jesus spoke thus to him, by virtue of being the king's painter, he took and painted a likeness of Jesus with choice paints, and brought with him to Abgar the king, his master.

; Jesus model :" For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.

:" The only difference between them and Jesus is that Jesus can do good.