Daayiee Abdullah Quotes
I'm not one who learned the Koran through recitation as a child, but one thing that always stands out is that there's no compulsion in religion. You can't tell people how to believe. It is an individual's relationship with their creator, and human beings should not be in the business of trying to tell others how they should live their lives.

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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
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However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.
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In any job, you can come under attack or have a door slammed in your face. You do want to listen to critics; you don't want to be in a cocoon and never change. Get a second opinion from coworkers and friends. Know that criticism can be valid, but don't take it personally.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.
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I'm not one who learned the Koran through recitation as a child, but one thing that always stands out is that there's no compulsion in religion. You can't tell people how to believe. It is an individual's relationship with their creator, and human beings should not be in the business of trying to tell others how they should live their lives.