Akbar S. Ahmed Quotes
If change is to come-as it must-it needs to be from within an Islamic framework and introduced by Muslims who have credibility within their own society.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Saturdays one - was a hit. If it's not good enough, then he won't do it.
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I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.
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Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,To traverse climes beyond the western main;Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
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We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.
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My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.
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We're barely scratching the surface of how people experience and utilize p2p payments, despite it being a multi-millennium-old behavior.
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I know how demanding show biz is. I fear that things would just end up bad if I'd date a colleague.
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I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.
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There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.
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I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams.
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If change is to come-as it must-it needs to be from within an Islamic framework and introduced by Muslims who have credibility within their own society.
