Al-Maʿarri Quotes
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.
Al-Maʿarri
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
J. F. C. Fuller
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
Hans Jonas
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
Adam Driver
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Taslima Nasrin
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
Hamza Yusuf
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In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
Zhang Zhidong
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
Walter Rudolf Hess
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Harriet Martineau
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
Eddie Izzard
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.
Frank Lowy
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
Tate Donovan
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If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
Ralph Merkle
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I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
Mara Wilson
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Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!
Rumi
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The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.
Al-Maʿarri
