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You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while I stand behind, guarding your back. Sit at the table before me. Please, sample the tastiest morsels while I sit quietly. My desire is that you go first, in every occasion of earthly life. Only once will I go before you, And that will be at my last moment.
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Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?
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kurds
peacekeepers
un
world
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Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.
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happiness is realized only in the face of unhappiness
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Patience is the key to solutions.
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The greatest of all riches is education
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When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of the Renaissance to the dark shadow of September 11, 2001. Those of us living on that fateful day experienced the lower depths of mankind. As an author, avid reader, world traveler, and person of enormous curiosity, my life experiences have..
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understanding
religious
world-peace
tolerance
peace
human-beings
knowledge
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Beware of those who look like rose, for even roses have thorns.
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If you stand near a blacksmith, you will get covered in soot, but if you stand near a perfume seller, you will carry an aroma of scent with you.
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I would be the master of my life, no matter what actions I would have to take or pain I would have to endure
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Storytelling is power. A powerful book or movie can inform and inflame.
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sadly, all of my wounds had been inflicted by men
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A wise man was once asked what was the most difficult truth in life to uncover. His reply was: 'to know thyself'.
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Every straight line can be forced into a curve!
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Only when you drink from the river of silence, shall you indeed sing. And, when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And, when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. -Khalid Gibran
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Only when we evolved as spirited stallions, with a strong will of our own, would we progress and leave the era of those primitives behind us.
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Amani knew Baz's fatwa by heart, about women being forbidden from driving, and she proudly quoted, "Depravity leads to the innocent and pure women being accused of indecencies. Allah has laid down one of the harshest punishments for such an act to protect society from the spreading of the causes of depravity. Women driving cars, however, is one of the causes that lead to that." Now Maha was dancing around the room, singing her words in a lo..
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as women overcome one obstacle, another appears
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I came to dread what I might discover next in the cruel world of men
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We must support all women in their endeavors to help others. When you harm a woman, you harm the whole world.
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the world of men harbours a morbid condition of overfondness for themselves
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Saudi Arabia, and began having children, Osama bin Laden completed his high school education at the Al-Thager
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it was a known topic: The day of the virgin was leaving our land! Ali puckered
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only the men and the wind are completely free
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Your tongue is your horse, and if you let it loose it will betray you.
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My voice thick with frustration, I declared that if men and women could only meet each other under normal circumstances, that delusions of instant love would be more infrequent. While I do believe that great attractions lead to genuine love, such as it had with my sister, Sara, and her husband, Assad, such a happy outcome is rare. When men and women rarely have the opportunity to enjoy the other's company in ordinary social occasions, spont..
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feminism
women
royal-family
culture
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When the normal is forbidden, people fall into the abnormal.
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the emancipation of women is a freedom worth fighting for
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understood that from this moment, the stepping-stones
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Not forever can one enjoy stillness and peace. But misfortune and obstruction are not final. When the grass has been burnt by the fire of the steppe, it will grow anew in summer.
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A fly will never be able to enter a mouth which knows when to stay shut,
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When people are uneducated, or simply lack curiosity to seek knowledge, change appears as a frightening unknown. Such fear leads to aggression, even violence.
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There are four main sources of the Shari'a: the Koran, which is compiled of thousands of religious verses revealed by God through his Prophet, Mohammed; the Sunna, which are the traditions the Prophet addressed that are not recorded in the Koran; the Ijma, which are the perceptions of the Ulema, or religious scholars; and the Qiyas, which is a method whereby known jurists agree upon new legal principles.
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Only when you drink from the river of silence, shall you indeed sing. And, when you have reached the mountaintop, then you shall begin to climb. And, when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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Crimes are classified into three divisions: Hudud, Tazir, and Qisas. Crimes of Hudud are crimes that are denounced by God; the punishment is made known in the Koran. Crimes of Tazir are given to the appropriate authority to determine punishment. Crimes of Qisas give the victim the right to retaliate.
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If the Prophet could speak in this new age of modern amenities, I knew he would end such silly tradition.
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prophet
tradition
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Not for ever can one enjoy stillness and peace. But misfortune and obstruction are not final. When the grass has been burnt by the fire of the steppe, it will grow anew in summer.
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I know from my short time in the kingdom that all Saudis worry over Saudi opinion. All Saudis I have met act more relaxed around Westerners.
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I believe that the children of this generation have decayed with the ease of their lives, and that their great fortune has deprived them of any ambitions or real satisfactions. Surely the weakness of our monarchy in Saudi Arabia is bound up in our addiction to extravagance. I fear it will be our undoing.
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From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity, with their thoughts focused mainly on their looks and their luxurious possessions.
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We must all work together to bring change to this earth.
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Jean Sasson |
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When you harm a woman, you harm the whole world.
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I had no use for a husband under duress
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I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana
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