Al-Shafi‘i Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.
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Man, who don't like spaghetti?
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.
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Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours
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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
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Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]
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Do not worry, and worry.
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Sometimes it music in my head is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep making music, because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift.
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My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
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Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.
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[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
