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.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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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.
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I feel overestimated.
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You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
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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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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.
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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
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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.
