Abdullah ibn Mubarak Quotes

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

Abdullah ibn Mubarak

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• If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.

  

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• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

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• My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

  

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• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

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• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

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• I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.

  

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• I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

  

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• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

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• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

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• If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

  

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• In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.

  

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• We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

  

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• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

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• I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008

  

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• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

  

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• Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!

  

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• Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

  

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• I don't like the same old thing all the time.

  

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• Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

  

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• Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

  

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• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  

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• The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

  

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Listening