Faran Tahir Quotes
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
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At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.
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I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
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You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are people attracted to narratives of control and fear and hunting down the terrorists, and this uncaring attitude toward nature? These come from what I call the perceptions of separation and the experience of separation, the experience of alienation, the experience of scarcity and anxiety and competition, and a world in which everybody is out for themselves and nobody cares.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
