It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Shaker al-Absi was a veteran Palestinian guerrilla and Fatah al-Islam's leader. On December 10, 2008 Fatah al-Islam announced that al-Absi was believed to have been killed by Lebanese security forces.
