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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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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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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And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.
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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.
