Elijah Muhammad Quotes
... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.
Quotes to Explore
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I look formidable.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
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Too much emotion is like none at all.
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I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?
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There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.
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... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.
