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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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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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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I wanna hear it, I wanna hear it from each and every one of you. I wanna hear it from the kids, the men, the women. I wanna hear it from every single person in this arena. I want you to stand up out of your seat, I want you to get up and do what you should have done a long time ago! I want you to admit that you were wrong! All of you! You all were wrong! Each and every single one of you! I made it!
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
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And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
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Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.
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Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
