Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di Quotes
Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems.
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When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
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Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
