Al-Maʿarri Quotes
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.
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Consult duty not events.
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I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
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The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.
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I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.
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The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.
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They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!
