Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri Quotes
Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I love working the legislative process.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it
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Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
