Al-Maʿarri Quotes

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

Al-Maʿarri

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

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• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  

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• I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

  

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• Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.

  

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• How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

  

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• You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

  

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• Laws are the silent assessors of God.

  

  William R. Alger
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• I feel overestimated.

  

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• You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

  

  Heraclitus
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• Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

  

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• To clarify, the issue isn’t that I’m too fat, it’s that I’m too phat. Can I get a WHAT-WHAT!

  

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• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  

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• Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Judgment
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• And so by carefully investigating what is here and now, we must seek for the things that can save us. We should flee, entirely, all the works of lawlessness; otherwise, they may overwhelm us. And we should hate the error of the present age, that we may be loved in the age to come. 2 We should not allow our souls to relax, thinking they can consort with sinners and the wicked; otherwise we may become like them.

  

  Bart Ehrman
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• Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

  

  Al-Maʿarri
  • Error
  • Fools
  • Knaves