Yanar Mohammed Quotes
Before 2003, none of us knew which part of the country was Sunni and which part was Shi'a. This was something new to Iraq and we are reaping the results at this point. Women's wellbeing has paid the price.
Yanar Mohammed
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Victoria Aveyard
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Abraham Lincoln
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Wallace Shawn
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'
T. B. Joshua
So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.
Elaine Pagels
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
Marilyn vos Savant
I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.
John Howard
Before 2003, none of us knew which part of the country was Sunni and which part was Shi'a. This was something new to Iraq and we are reaping the results at this point. Women's wellbeing has paid the price.
Yanar Mohammed
