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| 8fa1779 | Today, Medina is simultaneously the archetype of Islamic democracy and the impetus for Islamic militancy. Islamic Modernists like the Egyptian writer and political philosopher Ali Abd ar-Raziq (d. 1966) pointed to Muhammad's community in Medina as proof that Islam advocated the separation of religious and temporal power, while Muslim extremists in Afghanistan and Iran have used the same community to fashion various models of Islamic theocra.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 9cd16ae | There is no evidence that Jesus himself openly advocated violent actions. But he was certainly no pacifist. "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword" (Matthew 10:34 | Luke 12:51)." | Reza Aslan | ||
| 459f068 | We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down. | targets vulnerability war | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 8c84568 | Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship! | history humour pirates | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 5e52bf1 | This was real life, not a book. And in | fiction legacy life real someday | Danielle Steele | |
| 3cb69e4 | l y't~ lmwt dy'man Hsb mw`dh, 'w km hw mukhTT lh. | Danielle Steel | ||
| efd6c89 | Love is a shoot star that lands in your heart, and lives forever. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 585a701 | Everett thought about it for a minute before he answered. "I go on with my life. I keep coming to meetings. And I love her forever." | Danielle Steel | ||
| a37bdd4 | Can a recovering alcoholic and a nun be happy together? Stay tuned. | Danielle Steel | ||
| cf05af6 | The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety. | technology titanic | Deborah Hopkinson | |
| e1e412f | Here was a man who wanted what no one had wanted before: he wanted to get to know the inner workings of the doll-like woman who was me. Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire. And I didn't exist without desire. If I didn't exist, then what? | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 6a4da0e | Our gods did not come to us in any specific form, but we held them in our hearts and understood them in our own way. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| eef22a3 | It' her life, and she' in the middle of it. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 670a471 | In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 2048970 | The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| b5fa5e6 | When men and women are rewarded for greed, greed becomes a corrupting motivator. When we equate the gluttonous consumption of the earth's resources with a status approaching sainthood, when we teach our children to emulate people who live unbalanced lives, and when we define huge sections of the population as subservient to an elite minority, we ask for trouble. And we get it. | John Perkins | ||
| 376ba36 | The fact is I am getting a little afraid of John. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ||
| 4545315 | justice is something for which every generation has to strive. | John M. Perkins | ||
| a61dab3 | The first question we must address deals with optimism, the possibility of achieving our goal. Are we in a position where we can actually hope to effect change? Assuming we become convinced that there are reasons for optimism, we move to the next question. Are we cetain that we want change? The stories about EHMs, jackals, and suffering around the globe strike raw nerves, but now we demand absolute proof that our grievances justify the effo.. | optimism suffering | John Perkins | |
| 6f1dcf7 | l Sdq n lb lmw'ssyn lbldn frd lmw'tmr ldstwr~ lmryk~ l`m 1787- qd tSwrw n Hq lHy@ wlHry@ wls`d@ wjd fqT mn jl lmrykyyn ,wlmdh nnfdh ln strtyjyt trwj llqym lmbryl@ lt~ kn nHrbh | John Perkins | ||
| b1d7295 | In America, education and quality of life are directly related. Lacking a good education means lacking, among other things, access to the very doorway that leads to a wholesome life-style. Education is not a luxury in modern American society--it is essential for survival. | John M. Perkins | ||
| 9b5da5d | sdhkrk bm qlh l~ frd qbyl@ lshwr f~ `m 1990 n l`lm ymkn n ykwn km tHlm bh wnn ymknn n nstbdl bkbws lSn`t lmlwth@ llbyy'@ wlTrq lsry`@ lmGlq@ wlmdn lmfrT@ lzdHm -Hlm jdyd mbny `l~ lmHfZ@ `l~ lbyy'@ wmbdy' lmsy'wly@ ljtm`y@ lm`ny@ blmsw@ f~ stT`ntn n nGyr nfsn wnGyr lmslmt lmTrwH@ | John Perkins | ||
| 3184391 | Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye, a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys, if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d2a94b8 | You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. --Henry David Thoreau | Jay Crownover | ||
| 3e1db4f | God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. | omnipresence | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 54aebe0 | All the world complain now a days of a press of trivial duties & engagements which prevents their employing themselves on some higher ground they know of, - but undoubtedly if they were made of the right stuff to work on that higher ground, provided they were released from all those engagements - they would now at once fulfill the superior engagement, and neglect all the rest, as naturally as they breathe. They would never be caught saying .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 2b518fb | If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man -- and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages -- it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. | cost housing life | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 6fbebd5 | There is more day left to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 2db7b20 | My practice is "nowhere", my opinion is here." | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d8eb168 | Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d64fb99 | Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are. | god | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 0064694 | In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. | present thoreau walden | Henry David Thoreau | |
| d221cb5 | How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! [...] When we are weary with travel, we lay down our load and rest by the wayside. So, when we are weary with the burden of life, why do we not lay down this load of falsehoods which we have volunteered to sustain, and be refreshed as never mortal was? Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them. When we would rest our bodies.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 983c7dd | The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course _a la mode_. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3aacf2d | It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it. | interest | Henry David Thoreau | |
| f141426 | The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. | leisure | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 930837a | It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 50009f8 | La loi n'a jamais rendu les hommes plus justes d'un iota ; et, a cause du respect qu'ils lui marquent, les etres bien disposes eux-meme deviennent les agents de l'injustice. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f921fd9 | It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f8f98d3 | Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man, -all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners! | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 67c9bf9 | It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember. | memorable wisdom | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7dede93 | Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or streeet, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows, morning and evening, reach farther than their daily steps. We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 6082b83 | It's hard to explain, but it's related to me know that for every moment of beauty this place gives me, I probably miss a thousand more. And I want them all. I swear I'd live on the dunes if I could. I was born out of my time. I should have been around during the end of the eighteenth century, when the Romantic Era kicked off, and writers and artists were obsessed with nature: the ocean, the mountains, the sky. And they believed in following.. | Kirsty Eagar | ||
| 7a7275b | The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. | Henry David Thoreau |