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The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers.

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• That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Love
  • Fall

• The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Past
  • Never

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Understand

• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Myself
  • Spiritual
  • Somewhat

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Pretty
  • Thought
  • Better

• The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Conversation
  • Remembered

• While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Books
  • Prize
  • Mysteries

• Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Done
  • Purpose

• The first half of the 20th century in the United States and much of the world was an era when racial and ethnic differences determined even the most uncontrived actions. Stepping into a restaurant, boarding a train, engaging in sexual relationships, or running or voting for a public office were all ruled by notions of differences between groups.

  

  Aberjhani
  • World
  • Running

• Please ask Congressmen whether their candidates are in favour of running illegal butcher houses? Do they want to protect the hapless animals or the butchers?

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Running

• No, the serpent did notSeduce Eve to the apple.All that's simplyCorruption of the facts.Adam ate the apple.Eve ate Adam.The serpent ate Eve.This is the dark intestine.The serpent, meanwhile,Sleeps his meal off in Paradise-Smiling to hearGod's querulous calling.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Dark
  • Paradise

• I am surrounded by a small group of young landscapists who will be very happy get to know you. Besides, they are real painters... I find myself very well fixed here. I am drawing figures at hard. And at the Academy, there are only landscapists. They begin to perceive that it's a good thing.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Good
  • Real
  • Happy

• The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• Ecce parens verus patriae.

  

  Lucan

• En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Response

• It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • American
  • Joy
  • Mr. Moulton

• To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • May
  • Help

• Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.

  

  George H. Morris
  • Men
  • Grab
  • DIstances

• The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers.

  

  Jay Parini