Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Quotes
If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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A million years went by quick.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.
