Mustafa Akyol Quotes
There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
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It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
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The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.
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All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
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The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.
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The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!
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Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
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Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.
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There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.
