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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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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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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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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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.
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I did not attend the services, because it seems to me, as Pythagoras says, the body is the tomb of the soul and that by being born a person has already begun to die.
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Not every dollar spent to gain influence on Capitol Hill comes from a big global industrial behemoth. Hundreds of small advocacy groups and nonprofits spend thousands each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies on the issues they care about most, and their efforts often go under the radar.
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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
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I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.
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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.
