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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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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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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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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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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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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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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The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
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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 don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
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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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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
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Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.
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The function of religion means that faith is a lamp in our lives which illuminates the path for people.
