Ahmad ibn Ajiba Quotes
A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds.
Ahmad ibn Ajiba
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Veritatem Temporis filiam esse dixit.
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Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
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Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.
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Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
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Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
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I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.
Jana Novotna
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A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds.
Ahmad ibn Ajiba
