Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Quotes
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I believe that all men and women will be saved.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
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America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.
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My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.
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Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.
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There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.
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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
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I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.
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Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.
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Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
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One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
