Charles Issawi Quotes
Petroleum, Law of: Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.
Charles Issawi
Quotes to Explore
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
Daniel Barenboim
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Mao Zedong
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
Maajid Nawaz
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
Banks
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As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
Ian Hacking
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
Larry Harvey
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
D. H. Lawrence
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Carl Jung
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot
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Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically.
Hans Rosling
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
B. D. Wong
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He who is contented is rich.
Lao Tzu
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I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.
Benjamin Booker
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
Rollo May
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The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.
Jared Polis
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(On drug laws): Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
Bill Hicks
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Petroleum, Law of: Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.
Charles Issawi