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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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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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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I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking about opposites. It's so childish, really, but that might be simply what it is.
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I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.
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What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.
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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.
