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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I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
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I'm a modern-day renaissance man.
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That's probably the best part of holding office is being able to solve problems and really help people who feel like no one cares about them.
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We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.
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Research from these new disciplines has revealed that trauma produces actual physiological changes, including a recalibration of the brain’s alarm system, an increase in stress hormone activity, and alterations in the system that filters relevant information from irrelevant. We now know that trauma compromises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feeling of being alive. These changes explain why traumatized individuals become hypervigilant to threat at the expense of spontaneously engaging in their day-to-day lives. They also help us understand why traumatized people so often keep repeating the same problems and have such trouble learning from experience. We now know that their behaviors are not the result of moral failings or signs of lack of willpower or bad character—they are caused by actual changes in the brain.
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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.
