Al-Masudi Quotes
He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
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If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.
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I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Richard Madden, I loved to work alongside him; he's a very funny man.
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They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.
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Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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The only things that smell good are fat and sugar. Tofu being boiled doesn't smell good. Anything that smells good is fattening.
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He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion.
