Kabir Quotes
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I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.
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My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.
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They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.
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You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
