Abdolkarim Soroush Quotes
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.
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The military clock is ticking. It can be stopped, of course, if a change in behavior of the Serbian side is produced in a very short period of time.
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
