Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri Quotes
The function of religion means that faith is a lamp in our lives which illuminates the path for people.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.
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My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
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I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and it was invented to do exactly that.
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Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.
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I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.
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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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The function of religion means that faith is a lamp in our lives which illuminates the path for people.
