Al-Shafi‘i Quotes
Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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Is that a real country?
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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I have no confusion in my mind about that. It was a tragedy, it was a painful experience. You say that the Congress party was involved in that, I don’t agree with that. Certainly there was violence, certainly there was tragedy.
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A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
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Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.
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Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.
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If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?
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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
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Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.
