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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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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If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.
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And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.
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Then they did put me on the rack because I confessed no ladies or gentlemen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time and because I lay still and did not cry, my Lord Chancellor and Master Rich took pains to rack me with their own hands till I was nigh dead.
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We're going off the rails on a crazy train.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
