Rashid al-Ghannushi Quotes
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.
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I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well.
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I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.
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I don't do social media.
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I like men in suits. Men in suits I think are so sexy. But I love men in suits who own their own businesses. That's even sexier... I just love a guy who has his own thing going on and believes in it.
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Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
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I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
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I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.
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While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.
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I love watching Crufts on the television, especially the agility tests; I find them very impressive.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
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Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.
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No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.
