SAGES does surgery all over the world, teaching and educating surgeons.

SAGES does surgery all over the world, teaching and educating surgeons.

You must have what one of the Chinese sages called jian ai concern for everybody.

But a wise man among the sages of Bagdad... comforted them with a prophecy, saying...

The same religions who send their sages off to lonely mountain tops also teach us love and trust.

In our view, no other 50 year period in human history has encompassed such rich and unanticipated changes, defying the sages of all hues.

These are the mes sages of Allah which We recite to you in truth , and Allah desires no wrong to the people of the world .

These are the mes sages of Allah which We recite to you in truth , and Allah desires no wrong to the people of the world .

But a wise man among the sages of Bagdad comforted them with a prophecy... saying, In the fullness of years, a liberator shall come upon you...

When sages were asked to interpret the dream, they predicted the queen would give birth to a son destined to become either a great ruler or a holy man.

As Mahatma Gandhi and sages before have taught and practised, truthfulness, charity, compassion, non violence and treating others as we would wish ourselves to be treated are the values that really stand the test of time.

This was also raised in the Group's conversations with the Conseil des Sages, with civil society, and with the Ministry of Women's Affairs, which stressed that the legislation was not adapted to the social reality of the country.

Immersed in a bustle of events that no one will remember tomorrow, we tend to pay less attention to people who take on the issues of eternity philosophers, moralists, sages who try to turn our minds to higher things.

But the West and the US in particular is new to dignity games à la Chinois. If it gets carried away and presumes to talk down to the 5,000 year old culture of the Sages, the West could become the next object of China s nationalist resentment.

These are the mes sages of Allah which We recite to you in truth , and Allah desires no wrong to the people of the world . To Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth , and to Allah are all matters referred for decision .

These are the mes sages of Allah which We recite to you in truth , and Allah desires no wrong to the people of the world . To Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth , and to Allah are all matters referred for decision .

So the traditions also insisted and this is an important point, I think that you could not and must not confine your compassion to your own group your own nation, your own co religionists, your own fellow countrymen. You must have what one of the Chinese sages called jian ai concern for everybody. Love your enemies. Honor the stranger.

Now that foundation is so important that a number of us from the largest general surgery society in the United States, SAGES, started in the late 1990s a training program that would assure that every surgeon who practices minimally invasive surgery would have a strong foundation of knowledge and skills necessary to go on and do procedures.

It was for this exact reason that the Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Adam Daniel Rotfeld, proposed that the Secretary General establish a group of sages, which would work on comprehensive ways of generating political will and make it possible to break the stalemate in such important bodies as the Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament.

Now that foundation is so important that a number of us from the largest general surgery society in the United States, SAGES, started in the late 1990s a training program that would assure that every surgeon who practices minimally invasive surgery would have a strong foundation of knowledge and skills necessary to go on and do procedures.